TRIV Why did Nehemiah pluck out the hair of Israelite men?

Deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle. Jeremiah 18:21

Trivia: In Jeremiah 9, what does God say he'll make Jerusalem into?

Why did Nehemiah pluck out the hair of Israelite men?


Because they married non-Israelite women

I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves. Nehemiah 13:25

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