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 thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Genesis 6:11
The earth also was corrupt before God; and the earth was filled with violence.
Leviticus 18:24
Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
Leviticus 20:22
Ye shall therefore keep all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: that the land whither I bring you to dwell therein, may not vomit you out.
Numbers 35:33
So ye shall not pollute the land in which ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed in it, but 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 heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
Psalm 106:36
And they served their idols: which were a snare to them.
Jeremiah 3:1
They say, If a man shall put away his wife, and she shall go from him, and become another man's, shall he return to her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith 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 therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
Ezekiel 22:24
Son of man, say to her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.
Micah 2:10
Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a grievous destruction.
Romans 8:20
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath 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 a worldly sanctuary.

General references

Leviticus 26:35
As long as it lieth desolate, it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
Isaiah 24:19
The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is entirely dissolved, the earth is exceedingly moved.