26. Did not Solomon king of Israel sin regarding these things? Yet among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless the foreign women caused even him to sin.
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.