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

Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

or take of their daughters unto thy sons, and when their daughters go fornicating after their gods they shall make thy sons also fornicate after their gods.

Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.

Because if ye do in any wise go back and cleave unto the remnant of these Gentiles that remain among you and shall make marriages with them and go in unto them and they to you,

Nor seek their peace

Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

And Jehu, the son of Hanani, the seer, went out to meet him and said to king Jehoshaphat, Should thou help the ungodly and love those that hate the LORD? Therefore, the wrath of the presence of the LORD shall be upon thee.

If anyone comes unto you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house neither say unto him, Welcome:

That ye may

Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the rights, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you that ye might do them in the land into which ye go to inherit it

Be strong and of a good courage; for thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land as an inheritance, which I swore unto their fathers to give them.

And eat

If ye are willing and hearken, ye shall eat the good of the land;

And leave it

seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation and that all the Gentiles of the earth shall be blessed in him?

Aleph Halelu-JAH. Blessed is the man that fears the LORD, Beth that delights greatly in his commandments.

A good man shall leave an inheritance to his children's children, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

The just man who walks in his integrity, blessed shall be his sons after him.

General references

they took their daughters to be their wives and gave their daughters to their sons and served their gods.

and that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples of the land nor take their daughters for our sons.