* let us make.
   {Nichrath berith,} "let us cut a covenant:"

  De 29:12  Jos 9:6  2Ki 11:17  2Ch 29:10  34:31,32  Ne 9:38 
  Ne 10:29-39 
 * put away.  Heb. bring forth.  according to the counsel.
  2Ch 30:12 
 * of those that.
  9:4  2Ch 34:21,27  Ps 119:59,120  Isa 66:2  Eze 9:4 
 * at the commandment.
  De 7:2,3  Jos 23:12,13 
 * let it.
  Ne 8:14  13:1-3  Isa 8:20 
   Shechaniah's counsel, which he was then so clear in, will not
   hold now:  such marriages, it is certain, are contrary to the
   will of God, and ought not to be made; but they are not null.
   Our rule under the gospel is {Quod fieri non debuit, factum
   valet,} "That which ought not to have been done must, when
   done, abide."  See

  1Co 7:12,13