Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.

Take away

General references

Bible References

An accursed

Joshua 7:11
Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenantal commandment! They have taken some of the riches; they have stolen them and deceitfully put them among their own possessions.
2 Chronicles 28:10
And now you are planning to enslave the people of Judah and Jerusalem. Yet are you not also guilty before the Lord your God?
Matthew 7:5
You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

Take away

1 Corinthians 5:1
It is actually reported that sexual immorality exists among you, the kind of immorality that is not permitted even among the Gentiles, so that someone is cohabiting with his father's wife.

General references

Deuteronomy 23:9
When you go out as an army against your enemies, guard yourselves against anything impure.
Malachi 3:9
You are bound for judgment because you are robbing me -- this whole nation is guilty.

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