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 He said to Adam, “Because you listened to your wife’s voice and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’:

The ground is cursed because of you.
You will eat from it by means of painful labor
all the days of your life.
Genesis 6:11
Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with wickedness.
Leviticus 18:24
“Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things.
Leviticus 20:22
“You are to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and do them, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.
Numbers 35:33
“Do not defile the land where you are, for bloodshed defiles the land, and there can be no atonement for the land because of the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the person who shed it.
2 Chronicles 33:9
So Manasseh caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to stray so that they did worse evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.
Psalm 106:36
They served their idols,
which became a snare to them.
Jeremiah 3:1
If a man divorces his wife
and she leaves him to marry another,
can he ever return to her?
Wouldn’t such a land become totally defiled?
But you!
You have played the prostitute with many partners
can you return to Me?
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Ezekiel 7:20
He appointed His beautiful ornaments for majesty,
but they made their abhorrent images from them,
their detestable things.
Therefore, I have made these
into something filthy for them.
Ezekiel 22:24
“Son of man, say to her: You are a land that has not been cleansed, that has not received rain in the day of indignation.
Micah 2:10
Get up and leave,
for this is not your place of rest,
because defilement brings destruction—
a grievous destruction!
Romans 8:20
For the creation was subjected to futility—not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it—in the hope

Changed

Joshua 24:25
On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people at Shechem and established a statute and ordinance for them.
Daniel 7:25
He will speak words against the Most High and oppress the holy ones of the Most High. He will intend to change religious festivals and laws, and the holy ones will be handed over to him for a time, times, and half a time.
Mark 7:7
They worship Me in vain,
teaching as doctrines the commands of men.
Luke 1:6
Both were righteous in God’s sight, living without blame according to all the commands and requirements of the Lord.
Hebrews 9:1
Now the first covenant also had regulations for ministry and an earthly sanctuary.

General references

Leviticus 26:35
As long as it lies desolate, it will have the rest it did not have during your Sabbaths when you lived there.
Isaiah 24:19
The earth is completely devastated;
the earth is split open;
the earth is violently shaken.

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