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Did Solomon, king of Israel, not sin in this? Among the many nations, there had not been a king like him. He was loved by God, and God made him king of all Israel. But foreign women also made him sin. (Nehemiah 13, 26)
Will it also be said of you that you committed the same grave crime by rebelling against our God in marrying foreign women?" (Nehemiah 13, 27)
So I purified them from everything foreign. And I established regulations for the priests and the Levites, defining the tasks of everyone. (Nehemiah 13, 30)
Keep yourself, my son, from all unlawful sexual relations and, above all, take a wife from the tribe of your fathers. Do not take a foreign woman, one who does not belong to the tribe of our fathers, because we are children of the prophets. Remember, my son, that in former times our fathers, Noah, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob took wives from among their relatives so that they might be blessed in their children and that their race might possess the land. (Tobit 4, 12)
Love your relatives and do not despise the sons and daughters of your people to the point where you would take a foreign woman as your wife. Pride brings about ruin and your complete downfall; in laziness are found extreme humiliation and indigence; laziness is the mother of want, hunger, famine. (Tobit 4, 13)
Those who run after foreign gods only have their sorrows multiplied. Let me not shed blood for them, nor their names be heard on my lips. (Psalms 16, 4)
Alleluia! When Israel came out of Egypt, the family of Jacob from a people of foreign language, (Psalms 114, 1)
King Demetrius was able to place the kingdom under his rule and no one dared oppose him, so he dismissed his army, sent all the men back to their homes, except the foreign troops he had recruited from the islands of the pagans. And this drew the hatred of all the troops who had served his fathers. (1 Maccabees 11, 38)
Simon answered him, "We have not occupied any foreign land nor seized any foreign property: this is the inheritance of our fathers. It was our enemies who seized this for some time, (1 Maccabees 15, 33)
In this way that blasphemer and murderer ended, suffering the terrible torments he had inflicted on others. He died miserably in the mountains of a foreign land. (2 Maccabees 9, 28)
Timothy, who had been defeated before by the Jews, gathered together an enormous number of foreign troops and a great number of horses from Asia. He appeared in Judea in order to conquer it by force of arms. (2 Maccabees 10, 24)
It has banished powerful men and forced them to wander among foreign nations. (Ecclesiasticus 29, 18)
