26. Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among many nations there was no king like him, who was beloved of his God; and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless pagan women caused even him to sin.
27. Should we then hear of your doing all this great evil, transgressing against our God by marrying pagan women?”
28. And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite; therefore I drove him from me.
29. Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.
30. Thus I cleansed them of everything pagan. I also assigned duties to the priests and the Levites, each to his service,
31. and to bringing the wood offering and the firstfruits at appointed times.Remember me, O my God, for good!