Nehemiah 13:29
Good News Translation
Remember, God, how those people defiled both the office of priest and the covenant you made with the priests and the Levites.

New Revised Standard Version
Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, the covenant of the priests and the Levites.

Contemporary English Version
I pray that God will punish them for breaking their priestly vows and disgracing the Levi tribe.

New American Bible
Remember against them, my God, how they defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Remember them, O Lord my God, that defile the priesthood, and the law of priests and Levites.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Remember them, O Lord my God, that defile the priesthood, and the law of priests and Levites.

Remember.

Nehemiah 6:14 Remember me, O Lord, for Tobias and Sanaballat, according to their works of this kind: and Noadias the prophet, and the rest of the prophets that would have put me in fear.

Psalm 59:5-13 Rise up thou to meet me, and behold: even thou, O Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel. Attend to visit all the nations: have no mercy on all them that work iniquity. . . .

2 Timothy 4:14 Alexander the coppersmith hath done me much evil: the Lord will reward him according to his works:

because they have defiled.

Leviticus 21:1-7 The Lord said also to Moses: Speak to the priests the sons of Aaron, and thou shalt say for them: Let not a priest incur an uncleanness at the death of his citizens. . . .

the covenant.

Numbers 16:9,10 Is it a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath spared you from all the people, and joined you to himself, that you should serve him in the service of the tabernacle, and should stand before the congregation of the people, and should minister to him? . . .

Numbers 25:12,13 Therefore say to him: behold I give him the peace of my covenant, . . .

1 Samuel 2:30 Wherefore thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should minister in my sight, for ever. But now saith the Lord: Far be this from me: but whosoever shall glorify me, him will I glorify: but they that despise me, shall be despised.

Malachi 2:4-8,10-12 And you shall know that I sent you this commandment, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts. . . .

Context
Intermarriage Forbidden
28And one of the sons of Joiada the son of Eliasib the high priest, was son in law to Sanaballat the Horonite, and I drove him from me. 29Remember them, O Lord my God, that defile the priesthood, and the law of priests and Levites.30So I separated from them all strangers, and I appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites, every man in his ministry:…
Cross References
Numbers 25:13
And the covenant of the priesthood for ever shall be both to him and his seed, because he hath been zealous for his God, and hath made atonement for the wickedness of the children of Israel.

Nehemiah 6:14
Remember me, O Lord, for Tobias and Sanaballat, according to their works of this kind: and Noadias the prophet, and the rest of the prophets that would have put me in fear.

Malachi 2:4
And you shall know that I sent you this commandment, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.

Malachi 2:8
But you have departed out of the way, and have caused many to stumble at the law: you have made void the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.

Nehemiah 13:28
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