Ezra 9:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.

Give not

Nor seek their peace

Deuteronomy 23:6

2 Chronicles 19:2

2 John 1:10

That ye may

Deuteronomy 6:1

Joshua 1:6

And eat

Isaiah 1:19

And leave it

General references

Judges 3:6

Nehemiah 10:30

Bible References

Give not

You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son, nor shall you take his daughter for your son.

"But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;

Nor seek their peace

You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever.

Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, "Should you help the wicked, and love those who hate Yahweh? Because of this, wrath is on you from before Yahweh.

If anyone comes to you, and doesn't bring this teaching, don't receive him into your house, and don't welcome him,

That ye may

Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it;

"Be strong and courageous; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.

And eat

If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land;

And leave it

since Abraham has surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him?

Praise Yah! Blessed is the man who fears Yahweh, who delights greatly in his commandments.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

A righteous man walks in integrity. Blessed are his children after him.

General references

and they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons and served their gods.

and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;