¹² Then all the assembly answered with a loud voice, As you have said concerning us, so must we do.

³ Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.

⁴ Arise; for the matter belongs to you, and we are with you: be of good courage, and do it.

²³ In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:

³⁷ For their heart was not right with him, Neither were they faithful in his covenant.

⁵⁷ But turned back, and dealt treacherously like their fathers. They were turned aside like a deceitful bow.