Text: Nehemiah 13:23-27
OT Text Referred to: Deuteronomy 23:3
Subject: Intermarriage with Ammonites and Moabites violating assembly law
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Longitudinal Theme
Significance: Nehemiah 13:23 discovers Jews married to women from Ammon and Moab — the very nations excluded from the assembly in Deuteronomy 23:3 (לֹא־יָבֹא עַמּוֹנִי וּמוֹאָבִי בִּקְהַל יְהוָה, lo-yavo Ammoni uMoavi biqhal YHWH). Nehemiah's violent response — rebuking, cursing, beating, and extracting oaths — reflects his understanding that intermarriage with these specific nations compounds the Deuteronomic prohibition. His invocation of Solomon's fall through foreign wives (v. 26) adds a historical precedent argument: even Israel's wisest king was led into sin by precisely such marriages. The passage shows Nehemiah applying Deuteronomy 23 not merely as an assembly-entrance regulation but as a broader principle against covenant-threatening foreign entanglement.