Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.

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Bible References

They defiled

Leviticus 18:24
"'Do not defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.
Numbers 35:33
"'So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.
Psalm 106:37
Yes, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons.
Isaiah 24:5
The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
Jeremiah 2:7
I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
Jeremiah 3:1
"They say, 'If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and become another man's, will he return to her again?' Wouldn't that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the prostitute with many lovers; yet return again to me," says the LORD.
Jeremiah 16:18
First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations."
Micah 2:10
Arise, and depart. For this is not your resting place, because of uncleanness that destroys, even with a grievous destruction.

As the

Leviticus 15:19
"'If a woman has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days: and whoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening.
Isaiah 64:6
For we have all become as one who is unclean, and all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.

General references

Leviticus 18:28
that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.