Ezra 9:1

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Summary

Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

The princes

Ezra 10:8

Jeremiah 26:10

Have not separated

Doing according

Of the canaanites

Genesis 15:16

Exodus 23:23

Deuteronomy 20:17

Ammonites

Moabites

Numbers 25:1

General references

Deuteronomy 7:3

Nehemiah 10:30

Bible References

The princes

And that whosoever came not within three days, according to the device of the rulers and Elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and be put out from the congregation of the captive.

And when all the people were gathered about Jeremiah in the house of the LORD, the princes of Judah heard of this rumor, and they came soon out of the king's Palace into the house of the LORD, and sat them down before the new door of the LORD.

Have not separated

And the children of Israel which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the Heathen in the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, ate

And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, "Ye have transgressed, that have taken strange wives, to make the trespass of Israel yet more:

for how shall it be known now that both I and thy people have found favour in thy sight, but in that thou goest with us: that both I and thy people have a preeminence before all the people that are upon the face of the earth."

From the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: Lo, the people shall dwell by himself and shall not be reckoned among other nations.

and separated the seed of Israel from all the strange children and stood and acknowledged their sins, and the wickedness of their fathers,

Now when they heard the Law, they separated from Israel everyone that had mixed himself therein.

Away, away, get you out from thence and touch no unclean thing. Go out from among such. And be clean ye that bear the vessel of the LORD.

Set yourselves therefore at large, and bear not a stranger's yoke with the unbelievers. For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? What company hath light with darkness?

Doing according

Wherefore after the doings of the land of Egypt wherein ye dwelt, see that ye do not; neither after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I will bring you, neither walk ye in their ordinances;

Beware that thou be not taken in a snare after them, after that they be destroyed before thee, and that thou ask not after their gods saying, 'How did these nations serve their gods, that I may do so likewise?'

When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, see that thou learn not to do after the abominations of these nations.

And he did wickedly in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel.

but were mingled among the Heathen, and learned their works -

Behold, thou art called a Jew, and trustest in the law and rejoicest in God,

Of the canaanites

and in the fourth generation they shall come hither again, for the wickedness of the Amorites is not yet full."

When mine angel goeth before thee and hath brought thee in unto the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites, and I shall have destroyed them,

But shalt destroy them without redemption, both the Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perezites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee,

Ammonites

The Ammonites and the Moabites shall not come into the congregation of the LORD; no, not in the tenth generation, no they shall never come in to the congregation of the LORD,

But king Solomon loved many outlandish women: the daughter of Pharaoh, and of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians and Hittites,

And Tobiah the Ammonite beside him said, "Let them build on: if a fox go up, he shall break down their stony wall."

And what time as the book of Moses was read in the ears of the people there was found written therein, that the Ammonites and Moabites should never come into the congregation of God,

Moabites

And Israel dwelt in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab,

General references

Also thou shalt make no marriages with them, neither give thy daughter unto his son nor take his daughter unto thy son.

and that we would not give our daughters unto the people in the land, neither to take their daughters for our sons.