27 Shall we then hearken to you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying foreign wives?
28 And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.
29 Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites.
30 Thus I cleansed them from all strangers, and appointed the wards of the priests and the Levites, every one in his business;
31 And for the wood-offering, at times appointed, and for the first-fruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.