The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the
Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;
NEH 13:2 Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and
with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them:
howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
NEH 13:3 Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they
separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
NEH 13:4 And before this, Eliashib the priest, having the oversight of
the chamber of the house of our God, was allied unto Tobiah:
NEH 13:5 And he had prepared for him a great chamber, where aforetime
they laid the meat offerings, the frankincense, and the vessels, and the
 King James Bible |