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.

And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring 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.

Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these 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, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.

If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed:

That ye may

Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:

Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them.

And eat

If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

And leave it

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

Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.

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

The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.

General references

And 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 people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons: