Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.
The filthiness
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Bible References
The land
Ezra 9:1
After these things were done, the captains came to me and said: The people of Israel and the priests and Levites have not kept themselves separate from the people of the lands. They have taken part in the disgusting ways of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Leviticus 18:24
Do not become unclean in any of these ways. By these practices all the nations that I am forcing out of your way have become unclean.
Deuteronomy 12:31
Do not behave this way toward Jehovah your God, for every abominable act Jehovah hates they have done for their gods. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
Deuteronomy 18:12
Jehovah your God hates people who do these disgusting things. That is why he is driving those nations out of the land as you advance.
2 Chronicles 33:2
He did what Jehovah considered evil by copying the disgusting things done by the nations that Jehovah dispossessed from before the Israelites.
The filthiness
Ezra 6:21
The children of Israel, who had come back, and all those who were joined to them, after separating themselves from the evil ways of the people of the land to become the servants of Jehovah, the God of Israel, ate together.
Ezekiel 36:25
I will sprinkle clean water on you and make you clean instead of unclean. Then I will cleanse you from all your idols.
2 Corinthians 7:1
Having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness with deep reverence for God.
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Judges 3:6
They intermarried with them and worshiped their gods.