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 to Adam He said, Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it! The ground is cursed for your sake. In pain 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
Do not defile 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, so that the land where I bring you to live shall not spit you out.
Numbers 35:33
So you shall not defile the land in which you are. For blood defiles the land. And the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of him that shed it.
2 Chronicles 33:9
And Manasseh made Judah and the people of Jerusalem to err, to do worse than the nations whom Jehovah had destroyed before the sons of Israel.
Psalm 106:36
And they served their idols, which were a snare to them.
Jeremiah 3:1
They say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him and will be for another man, will he return to her again? Would not that land be greatly defiled? But you play the harlot with many lovers; yet come back to Me, says Jehovah.
Ezekiel 7:20
And the beauty of His ornament, He set it in majesty. But they made the images of their abominations and of their hateful things in it; therefore I have put it to them as an impure thing.
Ezekiel 22:24
Son of man, say to her: You are a land not being cleansed, nor rained on in the day of disgust.
Micah 2:10
Arise and depart! For this is not your rest, because of destroying uncleanness, even a grievous destruction.
Romans 8:20
For the creation was not willingly subjected to vanity, but because of Him who subjected it on hope

Changed

Joshua 24:25
And 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 words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and plot to change times and laws. And they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and one-half time.
Mark 7:7
However, they worship Me in vain, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men."
Luke 1:6
And they were both righteous before God, walking blameless in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
Hebrews 9:1
Then truly the first tabernacle had also ordinances of divine service and an earthly sanctuary.

General references

Leviticus 26:35
As long as it lies waste it shall rest, because it did not rest in your sabbaths when you lived on it.
Isaiah 24:19
The earth is breaking, breaking! The earth is crashing, crashing! The earth is tottering, tottering!