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

Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.

Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.

For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you:

Nor seek their peace

Do nothing for their peace or well-being for ever.

And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went to King Jehoshaphat and said to him, Is it right for you to go to the help of evil-doers, loving the haters of the Lord? because of this, the wrath of the Lord has come on you.

If anyone comes to you not having this teaching, do not take him into your house or give him words of love:

That ye may

Now these are the orders and the laws and the decisions which the Lord your God gave me for your teaching, so that you might do them in the land of your heritage to which you are going:

Take heart and be strong; for you will give to this people for their heritage the land which I gave by an oath to their fathers.

And eat

If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;

And leave it

Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing?

Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws.

The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.

An upright man goes on in his righteousness: happy are his children after him!

General references

And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods.

And that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the lands, or take their daughters for our sons;