26. Didn’t Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations was there no king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless foreign women caused even him to sin.
27. Shall we then listen to you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?”
28. One of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I chased him from me.
29. Remember them, my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.
30. Thus I cleansed them from all foreigners, and appointed duties for the priests and for the Levites, everyone in his work;
31. and for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the first fruits. Remember me, my God, for good.