Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double; because they have defiled my land, they have filled mine inheritance with the carcases of their detestable and abominable things.
They have defiled
The carcases
General references
Bible References
First
Jeremiah 17:18
Let them be confounded that persecute me, but do not let me be confounded; let them be dismayed; but do not let me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil and destroy them with double destruction.
Isaiah 40:2
Speak ye according to the heart of Jerusalem and cry unto her that her time is now fulfilled that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.
Isaiah 61:7
Instead of your double shame, and your dishonour, they shall praise you in your inheritance; therefore in your land ye shall possess double, and ye shall have everlasting joy.
Revelation 18:6
Reward her even as she rewarded you and pay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has given thee to drink, give her double.
They have defiled
Jeremiah 2:7
And I brought you into a plentiful country to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.
Jeremiah 3:1
They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, shall he return unto her again? Is she not a land that is now completely polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, said the LORD.
Leviticus 18:27
(For all these abominations were done by the men of the land who were before you, and the land was contaminated.)
Numbers 35:33
So ye shall not pollute the land where ye are, for this blood shall defile the land; and the land cannot be reconciled of the blood that is shed therein except by the blood of the one that shed it.
Psalm 106:38
and shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.
Isaiah 24:5
The earth is also become bankrupt under its inhabitants because they have transgressed the laws, falsified the order, broken the everlasting covenant.
Micah 2:10
Arise and depart, for this is not your rest because it is polluted; it has become corrupted and with a great corruption.
Zephaniah 3:1
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
The carcases
Leviticus 26:30
And I will destroy your high places and cut down your images and cast your carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
Ezekiel 11:18
And they shall come there, and they shall remove all her contaminations and all her abominations from her.
Ezekiel 43:7
And he said unto me, Son of man, this is the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, in which I will dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel for ever, and my holy name, the house of Israel shall no longer defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcasses of their kings in their altars.
General references
Ezekiel 11:18
And they shall come there, and they shall remove all her contaminations and all her abominations from her.