Malachi 2:11

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Summary

Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

And an

Revelation 21:8

Profaned

Jeremiah 2:3

And hath

Bible References

And an

‘Do not defile yourselves by any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have become defiled.

then come and stand before Me in this house, which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—that you may do all these abominations?

he lends money on interest and takes increase; will he live? He will not live! He has committed all these abominations, he will surely be put to death; his blood will be on his own head.

One has committed abomination with his neighbor’s wife and another has lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law. And another in you has humbled his sister, his father’s daughter.

But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”

Profaned

Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine;

Thus you are to be holy to Me, for I the Lord am holy; and I have set you apart from the peoples to be Mine.

Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor shall you take their daughters for your sons.

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for His own possession out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

“There is none like the God of Jeshurun,

Who rides the heavens to your help,

And through the skies in His majesty.

They joined themselves also to Baal-peor,
And ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

“Israel was holy to the Lord,
The first of His harvest.

All who ate of it became guilty;

Evil came upon them,” declares the Lord.’”

And hath

Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them,

and they took their daughters for themselves as wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

Now King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,

Now when these things had been completed, the princes approached me, saying, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians and the Amorites.

Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, said to Ezra, “We have been unfaithful to our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.

In those days I also saw that the Jews had

married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab.

But like Adam they have transgressed the covenant;
There they have dealt treacherously against Me.

Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?