Isaiah 24:5

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Summary

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

Defiled

Changed

Hebrews 9:1

General references

Leviticus 26:35

Isaiah 24:19

Bible References

Defiled

Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;

Cursed is the ground because of you;

In toil you will eat of it

All the days of your life.

Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and the earth was filled with violence.

‘Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.

‘You are therefore to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them, so that the land to which I am bringing you to live will not spew you out.

So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it.

Thus Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the sons of Israel.

And served their idols,

Which became a snare to them.

God says, “If a husband divorces his wife
And she goes from him
And belongs to another man,
Will he still return to her?
Will not that land be completely polluted?
But you are a harlot with many lovers;
Yet you turn to Me,” declares the Lord.

They transformed the beauty of His ornaments into pride, and they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things with it; therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing to them.

“Son of man, say to her, ‘You are a land that is not cleansed or rained on in the day of indignation.’

“Arise and go,
For this is no place of rest
Because of the uncleanness that brings on destruction,
A painful destruction.

For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope

Changed

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

He will speak out against the Most High and wear down the saints of the Highest One, and he will intend to make alterations in times and in law; and they will be given into his hand for a

time, times, and half a time.

‘But in vain do they worship Me,
Teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’

They were both righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and requirements of the Lord.

Now even the first covenant had regulations of divine worship and the earthly sanctuary.

General references

All the days of its desolation it will observe the rest which it did not observe on your sabbaths, while you were living on it.

The earth is broken asunder,

The earth is split through,
The earth is shaken violently.