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

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And an

Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:

And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

Hath given forth upon interest, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

And one hath committed abomination with his neighbor's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter.

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and lewd men, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

Profaned

Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure to me above all people: for all the earth is mine:

And ye shall be holy to me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.

Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give to his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take to thy son.

For thou art a holy people to the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people to himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.

There is none like to the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellence on the sky.

They joined themselves also to Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

Israel was holiness to the LORD, and the first-fruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.

And hath

And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

But king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;

Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken foreign wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.

In those days also I saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me.

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?