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
May those who persecute me be disgraced. Do not let me be disgraced. May they be dismayed. Do not let me be dismayed. Bring days of disaster on them. Bring on them the destruction they deserve."
Isaiah 40:2
"Speak kindly to Jerusalem, and tell her that her time of warfare is over, that her punishment is completed. For the Lord has made her pay double for all her sins."
Isaiah 61:7
Instead of shame, you will get a double portion; instead of humiliation, they will rejoice over the land they receive. Yes, they will possess a double portion in their land and experience lasting joy.
Revelation 18:6
Repay her the same way she repaid others; pay her back double corresponding to her deeds. In the cup she mixed, mix double the amount for her.
They have defiled
Jeremiah 2:7
I brought you into a fertile land so you could enjoy its fruits and its rich bounty. But when you entered my land, you defiled it; you made the land I call my own loathsome to me.
Jeremiah 3:1
"If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, he may not take her back again. Doing that would utterly defile the land. But you, Israel, have given yourself as a prostitute to many gods. So what makes you think you can return to me?" says the Lord.
Leviticus 18:27
for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.
Numbers 35:33
"You must not pollute the land where you live, for blood defiles the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed there, except by the blood of the person who shed it.
Psalm 106:38
They shed innocent blood -- the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted by bloodshed.
Isaiah 24:5
The earth is defiled by its inhabitants, for they have violated laws, disregarded the regulation, and broken the permanent treaty.
Micah 2:10
But you are the ones who will be forced to leave! For this land is not secure! Sin will thoroughly destroy it!
Zephaniah 3:1
The filthy, stained city is as good as dead; the city filled with oppressors is finished!
The carcases
Leviticus 26:30
I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.
Ezekiel 11:18
"When they return to it, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.
Ezekiel 43:7
He said to me: "Son of man, this is the place of my throne and the place for the soles of my feet, where I will live among the people of Israel forever. The house of Israel will no longer profane my holy name, neither they nor their kings, by their spiritual prostitution or by the pillars of their kings set up when they die.
General references
Ezekiel 11:18
"When they return to it, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.