Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

General references

Bible References

Defiled

Genesis 3:17
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it, cursed shall be the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Genesis 6:11
The earth corrupted itself before God, and the earth filled itself with violence.
Leviticus 18:24
Do not defile yourselves in any of these things; for in all these things the Gentiles which I cast out before you have defiled themselves;
Leviticus 20:22
Keep, therefore, all my statutes and all my rights and do them, and the land where I bring you to dwell therein will not vomit you out.
Numbers 35:33
So ye shall not pollute the land where ye are, for this blood shall defile the land; and the land cannot be reconciled of the blood that is shed therein except by the blood of the one that shed it.
2 Chronicles 33:9
So Manasseh deceived Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, to do more evil than the Gentiles, whom the LORD had destroyed before the sons of Israel.
Psalm 106:36
And they served their idols, which were a snare unto them.
Jeremiah 3:1
They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, shall he return unto her again? Is she not a land that is now completely polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, said the LORD.
Ezekiel 7:20
Because they turned the glory of his ornament into pride and made in her the images of their abominations of their statues; therefore I have set it far from them.
Ezekiel 22:24
Son of man, say unto her, Thou art not clean land, nor art thou sprinkled with rain in the day of indignation.
Micah 2:10
Arise and depart, for this is not your rest because it is polluted; it has become corrupted and with a great corruption.
Romans 8:20
For the creatures were subjected to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected them,

Changed

Joshua 24:25
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day and set them statutes and laws in Shechem.
Daniel 7:25
And he shall speak great words against the most High and shall break down the saints of the most High and think to move the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the half or dividing of a time.
Mark 7:7
Howbeit in vain do they honor me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Luke 1:6
And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord, blameless.
Hebrews 9:1
Nevertheless the first had its justifications of worship and its worldly sanctuary.

General references

Leviticus 26:35
All the time that it shall be desolate, it shall rest that which it did not rest in your sabbaths when ye dwelt upon it.
Isaiah 24:19
The earth shall be utterly broken down; the earth is clean dissolved; the earth is moved exceedingly.