Nehemiah 13:23
23 In those days I also saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
24 And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and could not speak the language of Judah, but spoke according to the language of one or the other people.
Nehemiah 13:25
25 So I contended with them and cursed them, struck some of them
and pulled out their hair, and made them swear by God, saying,
“You shall not give your daughters as wives to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or yourselves.
Nehemiah 13:26-27
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?”
Malachi 2:16
“For the Lord God of Israel says that He hates divorce…
The POPULUS View Regarding Divorce
Matthew 19:3
3 The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife FOR JUST ANY REASON?”
Mark 10:3
And He answered and said to them, “What did Moses command you?”
Mark 10:4
They said, “Moses permitted a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to dismiss her.
Deuteronomy 24:1
When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
Deuteronomy 24:2
And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man’s wife.
Deuteronomy 24:3-4
3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
4 her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after that she is defiled;
for that is abomination before the Lord: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
Mark 10:5
5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.
Matthew 19:4-6
4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’
Matthew 19:5a
5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife…
Matthew 19:6
…and the two shall become one flesh’?
Genesis 5:2
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Matthew 19:7-8
7 They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?”
8 He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives,
but from the beginning it was not so.
Matthew 19:9-10
9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery;
and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.”
Matthew 19:10
10 His disciples said to Him, “If such is the case of the man with his wife, it is better not to marry.”
GOD’S PLAN FOR MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
Mark 10:6
6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
Mark 10:7
7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;
Mark 10:8
8 and they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.
Mark 10:9
9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.