23 In those days also I saw the Jews who had ^mmarried women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab. 24 And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but only the ⁿlanguage of each people. 25 And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and ^opulled out their hair. And I ^pmade them take an oath in the name of God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves. 26 ^qDid not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations ^rthere was no king like him, and he was ^sbeloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin. 27 Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?”