Ezra-Nehemiah (2 Esdras) 23:26
Source: Septuagint
26Did not Solomon king of Israel sin thus? though there was no king like him among many nations, and he was beloved of God, and God made him king over all Israel; yet strange women turned him aside.
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24and their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and did not know how to speak in the Jewish language.
25And I strove with them and cursed them; and I smote some of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters to their sons, and ye shall not take of their daughters to your sons.
— Ezra-Nehemiah (2 Esdras) 23:26 —
27So we will not hearken to you to do all this evil, to break covenant with our God—to marry strange wives.
28And Eliashib the high priest, one of the sons of Jehoiada, being son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite, I chased him away from me.