20. So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.
21. Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.
22. And I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember unto me, O my God, this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.
23. In those days also saw I the Jews that had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
24. and their children spake half in the speech of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.