shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods(I Kings 11 2), which happened in the case of Solomon . Finally, there is a reference to Sheshan who married his daughter to Jarha, an Egyptian slave(I Chronicles 2:34). These three isolated incidents indicate that such marriages involved both male and female Egyptians.
Moabite and Ammonites were prohibited from being“admitted to the congregation of the Lord....even in the tenth generation(Deut. 23:4). This statement contains no reference to mixed marriages. Negative references connected with mixed marriages to Ammonites were associated with Rehoboam , who was considered an evil king and his mother was Ammonite(II Chronicles 12:13); in addition, Joash was slain by assassins whose mothers were Ammonite and Moabite (II Chronicles 24:26). While the Israelites were in the desert, they consorted with Moabite women and were led astray after their gods (Num. 25:1ff)). In that same section we have a report of an Israelite who brought a Midianite woman into camp and was slain by a zealot. In both these instances the danger of other religious was decried. Ruth, a Moabite woman, demonstrated an opposing point of view as she became the antecedent of David(Ruth 4:18).
The most thorough Biblical injunctions were directly against mixed marriages with the seven Canaanite nations; so the Hittites , Girgashites Amorites, Canaanites Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (Deut. 7:1; also Exodus 34:11) were prohibited.“You shall not intermarry with them and not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons:(Deut. 7:3). A clear exception was made for a woman taken as prisoner of war(Deut. 211140). After a period of delay, her captor could marry her; and the legislation made No comments of a religious nature, nor did it mention conversion. The Bible contains few references to proselytes(Is. 14:1; Esther 10:27).
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