Ezra 9:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.

Give not

Nor seek their peace

Deuteronomy 23:6

2 Chronicles 19:2

2 John 1:10

That ye may

Deuteronomy 6:1

Joshua 1:6

And eat

Isaiah 1:19

And leave it

General references

Judges 3:6

Nehemiah 10:30

Bible References

Give not

You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.

and you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons also to play the harlot with their gods.

Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons.

For if you ever go back and cling to the rest of these nations, these which remain among you, and intermarry with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,

Nor seek their peace

You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days.

Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him and said to King Jehoshaphat, “Should you help the wicked and love those who hate the Lord and

so bring wrath on yourself from the Lord?

If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house, and do not give him a greeting;

That ye may

“Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the judgments which the Lord your God has commanded me to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you are going over to possess it,

Be strong and courageous, for you shall give this people possession of the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.

And eat

“If you consent and obey,
You will eat the best of the land;

And leave it

since Abraham will surely become a great and mighty nation, and in him all the nations of the earth will be blessed?

Praise the Lord!

How blessed is the man who fears the Lord,
Who greatly delights in His commandments.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,
And the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.

A righteous man who walks in his integrity—

How blessed are his sons after him.

General references

and they took their daughters for themselves as wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

and that we will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.