Nehemiah 13:29

29 1Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the 2covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

Nehemiah 13:29 In-Context

27 "Do we then hear about you that you have committed all this great evil by acting unfaithfully against our God by marrying foreign women?"
28 Even one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite, so I drove him away from me.
29 Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.
30 Thus I purified them from everything foreign and appointed duties for the priests and the Levites, each in his task,
31 and I arranged for the supply of wood at appointed times and for the first fruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.

Cross References 2

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Lit "for the defilings of"
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