John Gill, on Neh 13:20

“So the merchants, and they that sold all kinds of wares, stayed without Jerusalem once or twice.”

“In those days also I saw Jews that married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab. Ashdod, or Azotus, as it is called in Act 8:40, was one of the five cities of the Philistines; which, though none of the seven nations with whom marriage was forbid, yet it was very unfit and improper to marry with them, Jdg 14:3. This place was a mart of the Arabians (h), where they sold their goods, to which the Jews might resort, and thereby be ensnared into such marriages; and which with the Ammonites and Moabites were unlawful, Neh 13:1. (h) Mela de Situ Orbis, l. 1. c. 10.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.