Malachi 2:11

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Summary

Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

And an

Revelation 21:8

Profaned

Jeremiah 2:3

And hath

Bible References

And an

"'Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.

Then you come and stand in my presence in this temple I have claimed as my own and say, "We are safe!" You think you are so safe that you go on doing all those hateful sins!

engages in usury and charges interest. Will he live? He will not! Because he has done all these abominable deeds he will certainly die. He will bear the responsibility for his own death.

One commits an abominable act with his neighbor's wife; another obscenely defiles his daughter-in-law; another violates his sister -- his father's daughter -- within you.

But to the cowards, unbelievers, detestable persons, murderers, the sexually immoral, and those who practice magic spells, idol worshipers, and all those who lie, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. That is the second death."

Profaned

And now, if you will diligently listen to me and keep my covenant, then you will be my special possession out of all the nations, for all the earth is mine,

You must be holy to me because I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from the other peoples to be mine.

You must not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.

There is no one like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the sky to help you, on the clouds in majesty.

They worshiped Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

Israel was set apart to the Lord; they were like the first fruits of a harvest to him. All who tried to devour them were punished; disaster came upon them," says the Lord.'"

And hath

When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

They took the Canaanites' daughters as wives and gave their daughters to the Canaanites; they worshiped their gods as well.

King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh's daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.

Now when these things had been completed, the leaders approached me and said, "The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the local residents who practice detestable things similar to those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, from the descendants of Elam, addressed Ezra: "We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the local peoples. Nonetheless, there is still hope for Israel in this regard.

Also in those days I saw the men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

At Adam they broke the covenant; Oh how they were unfaithful to me!

Do not become partners with those who do not believe, for what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship does light have with darkness?