Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

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Bible References

The land

Numbers 35:33
You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
Psalm 106:38
they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.
Isaiah 24:5
The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.
Jeremiah 2:7
And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in, you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.
Jeremiah 16:18
But first I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations."
Ezekiel 36:17
"Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds. Their ways before me were like the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity.
Romans 8:22
For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.

Vomiteth

Leviticus 18:28
lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
Leviticus 20:22
"You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my rules and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to live may not vomit you out.

General references

Exodus 22:19
"Whoever lies with an animal shall be put to death.
Leviticus 18:28
lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

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