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 practices, for the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves by all these things.

Then do you come and stand before Me in this house called by My name and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue doing all these detestable acts’?

and lends at interest or for profit, will he live? He will not live! Since he has committed all these detestable acts, he will certainly die. His blood will be on him.

One man within you commits a detestable act with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his father’s daughter.

But the cowards, unbelievers, vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars—their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Profaned

Now if you will listen to Me and carefully keep My covenant, you will be My own possession out of all the peoples, although all the earth is Mine,

You are to be holy to Me because I, Yahweh, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be Mine.

Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

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

There is none like the God of Jeshurun,
who rides the heavens to your aid,
the clouds in His majesty.

They aligned themselves with Baal of Peor
and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

Israel was holy to the Lord,
the firstfruits of His harvest.
All who ate of it found themselves guilty;
disaster came on them.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.

And hath

When mankind began to multiply on the earth and daughters were born to them,

The Israelites took their daughters as wives for themselves, gave their own daughters to their sons, and worshiped their gods.

King Solomon loved many foreign women in addition to Pharaoh’s daughter: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women

After these things had been done, the leaders approached me and said: “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the surrounding peoples whose detestable practices are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.

Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, responded to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the surrounding peoples, but there is still hope for Israel in spite of this.

In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

But they, like Adam, have violated the covenant;
there they have betrayed Me.

Do not be mismatched with unbelievers. For what partnership is there between righteousness and lawlessness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?