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 you have listened unto the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake; in sorrow shall you eat of it all the days of your life;
Genesis 6:11
The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.
Leviticus 18:24
Defile not you yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
Leviticus 20:22
You shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land, where I bring you to dwell therein, vomit you not out.
Numbers 35:33
So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood defiles the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, except by the blood of him that shed it.
2 Chronicles 33:9
So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the nations, which the LORD had destroyed before the children 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, may he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, says the LORD.
Ezekiel 7:20
As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things from it: therefore have I set it far from them.
Ezekiel 22:24
Son of man, say unto her, You are the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
Micah 2:10
Arise, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is defiled, it shall destroy you, even with utter destruction.
Romans 8:20
For the creation was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who has subjected the same in hope,

Changed

Joshua 24:25
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
Daniel 7:25
And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
Mark 7:7
But in vain do they worship 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
Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.

General references

Leviticus 26:35
As long as it lies desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when you dwelt upon it.
Isaiah 24:19
The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is torn asunder, the earth is shaken exceedingly.