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

And thou shalt make none covenant with them nor with their gods.

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

Also thou shalt make no marriages with them, neither give thy daughter unto his son nor take his daughter unto thy son.

But and if ye shall go back and cleave unto the rest of these nations that remain with you and shall make marriages with them, and shall go to them and they come to you:

Nor seek their peace

Thou shalt never, therefore, seek that which is prosperous or good for them all thy days forever.

And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went out against him and said to king Jehoshaphat, "Oughtest thou to help the wicked, and to love them that hate the LORD? In this verily is the wrath of the LORD upon thee.

If there come any unto you and bring not this learning, him receive not to house: neither bid him Godspeed.

That ye may

These are the commandments, ordinances and laws 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 bold: for unto this people shalt thou divide the land which I sware unto their fathers to give them.

And eat

If ye will agree and hearken, ye shall eat the best of the land, saith the LORD God.

And leave it

seeing that Abraham shall be a great and a mighty people, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?

{Praise the Everlasting} Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, and hath great delight in his commandments.

which their children's children shall have in possession - for the riches of the sinner is laid up for the just.

Whoso leadeth a godly and an innocent life; happy shall his children be whom he leaveth behind him.

General references

they took the daughters of them to be their wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

and that we would not give our daughters unto the people in the land, neither to take their daughters for our sons.