26 'Did not Solomon, king of Israel, sin in this kind of thing? And certainly, among many nations, there was no king similar to him, and he was beloved of his God, and God set him as king over all of Israel. And yet foreign women led even him into sin!
27 So how could we disobey and do all this great evil, so that we would transgress against our God, and take foreign wives?'
28 Now one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib, the high priest, was a son-in-law to Sanballat, a Horonite, and I made him flee from me.
29 O Lord, my God, remember against those who defile the priesthood and the law of the priests and the Levites!
30 And so I cleansed them from all foreigners, and I established the orders of the priests and the Levites, each one in his ministry.
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