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
'Ye are not defiled with all these, for with all these have the nations been defiled which I am sending away from before you;
Numbers 35:33
And ye profane not the land which ye are in, for blood profaneth the land; as to the land, it is not pardoned for blood which is shed in it except by the blood of him who sheddeth it;
Psalm 106:37
And they sacrifice their sons And their daughters to destroyers,
Isaiah 24:5
And the land hath been defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed laws, They have changed a statute, They have made void a covenant age-during.
Jeremiah 2:7
Yea, I bring you in to a land of fruitful fields, To eat its fruit and its goodness, And ye come in and defile My land, And Mine inheritance have made an abomination.
Jeremiah 3:1
Saying, 'Lo, one sendeth away his wife, And she hath gone from him, And she hath been to another man, Doth he turn back unto her again? Greatly defiled is not that land? And thou hast committed whoredom with many lovers, And turn again to Me, an affirmation of Jehovah.
Jeremiah 16:18
And I have recompensed a first -- A second time -- their iniquity and their sin, Because of their polluting My land, With the carcase of their detestable things, Yea, their abominable things have filled Mine inheritance.
Micah 2:10
Rise and go, for this is not the rest, Because of uncleanness it doth corrupt, And corruption is powerful.

As the

Leviticus 15:19
And when a woman hath an issue -- blood is her issue in her flesh -- seven days she is in her separation, and any one who is coming against her is unclean till the evening.
Isaiah 64:6
And we are as unclean -- all of us, And as a garment passing away, all our righteous acts; And we fade as a leaf -- all of us. And our iniquities as wind do take us away.

General references

Leviticus 18:28
and the land doth not vomit you out in your defiling it, as it hath vomited out the nation which is before you;