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 that persecute me be confounded, and let not me be confounded. Let their hearts fail them, and not mine heart fail. Bring upon them an evil day, and bruise them again and again.
Isaiah 40:2
Comfort Jerusalem, and tell her that her travail is at an end, that her offense is pardoned, that she hath received of the LORD's hand sufficient correction for all her sins.
Isaiah 61:7
For your great reproof and shame, shall they have joy, that ye may have part with them. For they shall have double possession in their land and everlasting joy shall be with them.
Revelation 18:6
Reward her even as she rewarded you, and give her double according to her works. And pour in double to her in the same cup which she filled unto you.
They have defiled
Jeremiah 2:7
And when I had brought you into a pleasant well builded land, that ye might enjoy the fruits and all the commodities of the same: ye went forth and defiled my land, and brought mine heritage to abomination.
Jeremiah 3:1
Commonly, when a man putteth away his wife, and she goeth from him, and marrieth with another, then the question is: should he resort unto her any more after that? Is not this field then defiled and unclean? But as for thee, thou hast played the harlot with many lovers, yet turn again to me, sayeth the LORD.
Leviticus 18:27
- for all these abominations have the men of the land done which were there before you, and the land is defiled -
Numbers 35:33
"'And see that ye pollute not the land which ye are in, for blood defileth the land. And the land can none otherwise be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of it that shed it.
Psalm 106:38
and shed the innocent blood of their sons and of their daughters; whom they offered unto the idols of Canaan, so that the land was defiled with blood.
Isaiah 24:5
For the earth is corrupt of her indwellers. For why? They have offended the law, changed the ordinances, and broken the everlasting covenant.
Micah 2:10
Up, get you hence, for here shall ye have no rest. Because of their Idolatry they are corrupt, and shall miserably perish.
Zephaniah 3:1
Woe to the abominable, filthy and cruel city:
The carcases
Leviticus 26:30
And I will destroy your altars built upon high hills, and overthrow your images, and cast your carcasses upon the bodies of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
Ezekiel 11:18
And thither shall ye come. And as for all impediments, and all your abominations: I will take them away.
Ezekiel 43:7
that said unto me, "O thou son of man, this room is my seat, and the place of my footsteps: whereas I will dwell among the children of Israel for evermore - so that the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, through their whoredom; through their high places; and through the dead bodies of their kings,
General references
Ezekiel 11:18
And thither shall ye come. And as for all impediments, and all your abominations: I will take them away.