Isaiah 24:5

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.

Defiled

Changed

Hebrews 9:1

General references

Leviticus 26:35

Isaiah 24:19

Bible References

Defiled

He said to Adam: Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.

The earth was corrupt in God's sight. It was full of violence.

Do not become unclean in any of these ways. By these practices all the nations that I am forcing out of your way have become unclean.

If you carefully obey all my laws and my rules, the land I am bringing you to live in will not vomit you out.

If you did this, you would defile the land where you are living. Murder defiles the land, and except by the death of the murderer there is no way to perform the ritual of purification for the land where someone has been murdered.

Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem so that they did more evil things than the nations that Jehovah destroyed when the Israelites arrived in the land.

They worshiped their idols, which became a trap for them.

It is said: If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, her first husband should not go back to her again. The land would become completely polluted. You have behaved like a prostitute who has many lovers. Now you want to come back to me! Says Jehovah.

Once they were proud of their beautiful jewels, but they used them to make disgusting idols. That is why Jehovah has made their wealth repulsive to them.

Son of man, say to her: 'You are a land that is not cleansed or rained on in the day of indignation (outrage) (revulsion).

Get up and go because this is not your resting-place. Uncleanness brings on destruction, a painful destruction.

For the creation was subject to corruption, not by it's own will but by reason of the one who subjected it on the basis of hope.

Changed

Joshua made a covenant for the people that day at Shechem. He gave them laws and rules to follow.

He will speak words against the Most High (Supreme God) and wear down (afflict) (cause great distress) the holy ones of the Most High. He will think to change the times and law and will have control until a time and times and half a time. (Three and one-half years)

They worship me in vain teaching as doctrines the commands of men.'

They were both righteous before God. They blamelessly obeyed all the commandments and ordinances of God (Greek: kurios: God).

The first covenant had ordinances for divine service, and an earthly sanctuary.

General references

All the days it lies deserted, it will celebrate the time to honor Jehovah it never celebrated while you lived there.

The earth is broken and destroyed and it is split into pieces. The earth is shaken violently.