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 shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

and thou take of their daughters to thy sons, and their daughters play the harlot after their gods, and make thy sons play the harlot after their gods.

Neither shall thou make marriages with them. Thy daughter thou shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall thou take to thy son.

Else if ye do at all go back, and cling to the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you,

Nor seek their peace

Thou shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days forever.

And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Should thou help the wicked, and love those who hate LORD? For this thing wrath is upon thee from before LORD.

If any man comes to you, and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into a house, and do not speak to him to rejoice.

That ye may

Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land where ye go over to possess it,

Be strong and of good courage, for thou shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.

And eat

If ye are willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land.

And leave it

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

Praise ye LORD. Blessed is the man who fears LORD, who delights greatly in his commandments.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his son's sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

A righteous man who walks in his integrity, blessed are his sons after him.

General references

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

And that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons.