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 the man He said, 'Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and dost eat of the tree concerning which I have charged thee, saying, Thou dost not eat of it, cursed is the ground on thine account; in sorrow thou dost eat of it all days of thy life,
Genesis 6:11
And the earth is corrupt before God, and the earth is filled with violence.
Leviticus 18:24
'Ye are not defiled with all these, for with all these have the nations been defiled which I am sending away from before you;
Leviticus 20:22
'And ye have kept all My statutes, and all My judgments, and have done them, and the land vomiteth you not out whither I am bringing you in to dwell in it;
Numbers 35:33
And ye profane not the land which ye are in, for blood profaneth the land; as to the land, it is not pardoned for blood which is shed in it except by the blood of him who sheddeth it;
2 Chronicles 33:9
And Manasseh maketh Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, to do evil above the nations that Jehovah destroyed from the presence of the sons of Israel.
Psalm 106:36
And serve their idols, And they are to them for a snare.
Jeremiah 3:1
Saying, 'Lo, one sendeth away his wife, And she hath gone from him, And she hath been to another man, Doth he turn back unto her again? Greatly defiled is not that land? And thou hast committed whoredom with many lovers, And turn again to Me, an affirmation of Jehovah.
Ezekiel 7:20
As to the beauty of his ornament, For excellency He set it, And the images of their abominations, Their detestable things -- they made in it, Therefore I have given it to them for impurity,
Ezekiel 22:24
Son of man, say to it, Thou art a land, It is not cleansed nor rained on in a day of indignation.
Micah 2:10
Rise and go, for this is not the rest, Because of uncleanness it doth corrupt, And corruption is powerful.
Romans 8:20
for to vanity was the creation made subject -- not of its will, but because of Him who did subject it -- in hope,

Changed

Joshua 24:25
And Joshua maketh a covenant with the people on that day, and layeth on it a statute and an ordinance, in Shechem.
Daniel 7:25
and words as an adversary of the Most High it doth speak, and the saints of the Most High it doth wear out, and it hopeth to change seasons and law; and they are given into its hand, till a time, and times, and a division of a time.
Mark 7:7
and in vain do they worship Me, teaching teachings, commands of men;
Luke 1:6
and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless,
Hebrews 9:1
It had, indeed, then (even the first tabernacle) ordinances of service, also a worldly sanctuary,

General references

Leviticus 26:35
all the days of the desolation it resteth that which it hath not rested in your sabbaths in your dwelling on it.
Isaiah 24:19
Utterly broken down hath been the land, Utterly broken hath been the land, Utterly moved hath been the land.