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 those who persecute me be put to shame. Do not let me be put to shame. Let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed. Bring on them a day of disaster. Crush them with twofold destruction!
Isaiah 40:2
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed. Her sin has been paid for and she has received double for all her sins from Jehovah's hand.
Isaiah 61:7
Instead of your shame there will be a double portion. Instead of humiliation they will shout for joy over their portion. Therefore they will possess a double portion in their land. Everlasting joy will be theirs.
Revelation 18:6
Render to her even as she rendered to you. Pay back double to her, double according to her works: in the cup that she has filled, fill double for her!
They have defiled
Jeremiah 2:7
I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and its produce. You came and made my land unclean. You made my heritage disgusting.
Jeremiah 3:1
It is said: If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, her first husband should not go back to her again. The land would become completely polluted. You have behaved like a prostitute who has many lovers. Now you want to come back to me! Says Jehovah.
Leviticus 18:27
The people of the land who were there before you did all these disgusting things. As a result, the land has become unclean.
Numbers 35:33
If you did this, you would defile the land where you are living. Murder defiles the land, and except by the death of the murderer there is no way to perform the ritual of purification for the land where someone has been murdered.
Psalm 106:38
They shed innocent blood, the blood of their own sons and daughters whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land became polluted with blood.
Isaiah 24:5
The inhabitants of the earth pollute the earth. They transgress laws and violate statutes. They break the everlasting covenant.
Micah 2:10
Get up and go because this is not your resting-place. Uncleanness brings on destruction, a painful destruction.
Zephaniah 3:1
Woe to the oppressive city for she is rebellious and polluted (defiled)!
The carcases
Leviticus 26:30
I will destroy your worship sites. I will cut down your incense altars and pile your dead bodies on top of your dead idols. I will view you with disgust.
Ezekiel 11:18
When they come there, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations from it.
Ezekiel 43:7
The voice said: Son of man, this is the place where my throne is and the place where my feet rest. This is where I will live among the Israelites for a very long time. Then the people of Israel and their kings will no longer dishonor my holy name by acting like prostitutes. They will not dishonor it with the dead bodies of their kings.
General references
Ezekiel 11:18
When they come there, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations from it.