oSee Deut. 23:3-5
Deuteronomy 23:3-6
3 a“No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the assembly of the Lord. Even to the tenth generation, none of them may enter the assembly of the Lord forever, 4 bbecause they did not meet you with bread and with water on the way, when you came out of Egypt, and because they chired against you Balaam the son of Beor from Pethor of dMesopotamia, to curse you. 5But the Lord your God would not listen to Balaam; instead the Lord your God turned ethe curse into a blessing for you, because the Lord your God loved you. 6You fshall not seek their peace or their prosperity all your days forever.Nehemiah 4:3-7
3 gTobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Yes, what they are building— hif a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!” 4 iHear, O our God, for we are despised. jTurn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives. 5 kDo not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have provoked you to anger in the presence of the builders.6So we built the wall. And all the wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work.
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▼Ch 4:1 in Hebrew
But when mSanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry. Nehemiah 13:1-3
Nehemiah’s Final Reforms
1On that day nthey read from the Book of Moses in the hearing of the people. And in it was found written othat no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God, 2for they did not meet the people of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them to curse them—yet our God turned the curse into a blessing. 3As soon as the people heard the law, pthey separated from Israel all qthose of foreign descent.
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