John Gill Commentary Nehemiah 13:23

"In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:" — Nehemiah 13:23 (ASV)

In those days also I saw Jews that married wives of Ashdod,
of Ammon, and of Moab .
Ashdod, or Azotus, as it is called in (Acts 8:40), was one of the five cities of the Philistines; which, though none of the seven nations with whom marriage was forbid, yet it was very unfit and improper to marry with them, (Judges 14:3). This place was a mart of the Arabians ^F8, where they sold their goods, to which the Jews might resort, and thereby be ensnared into such marriages; and which with the Ammonites and Moabites were unlawful, (Nehemiah 13:1).

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FOOTNOTES:

• F8: Mela de Situ Orbis, l. 1. c. 10.