¹² Then all the people, answering, said with a loud voice, As you have said, so it is right for us to do.

³ Let us now make an agreement with our God to put away all the wives and all their children, if it seems right to my lord and to those who go in fear of the words of our God; and let it be done in keeping with the law.

⁴ Up, now! for this is your business, and we are with you; take heart and do it.

²³ And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab:

³⁷ And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with him.

⁵⁷ Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.