Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
The seed
Strangers
General references
Bible References
The seed
Nehemiah 13:3
When they heard the law, they removed from Israel all who were of mixed ancestry.
Ezra 9:2
Indeed, they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has become intermingled with the local residents. Worse still, the leaders and the officials have been at the forefront of all of this!"
Ezra 10:11
Now give praise to the Lord God of your fathers, and do his will. Separate yourselves from the local residents and from these foreign wives."
Strangers
Psalm 144:7
Reach down from above! Grab me and rescue me from the surging water, from the power of foreigners,
Isaiah 2:6
Indeed, O Lord, you have abandoned your people, the descendants of Jacob. For diviners from the east are everywhere; they consult omen readers like the Philistines do. Plenty of foreigners are around.
Hosea 5:7
They have committed treason against the Lord, because they bore illegitimate children. Soon the new moon festival will devour them and their fields.
Confessed
Nehemiah 1:6
may your ear be attentive and your eyes be open to hear the prayer of your servant that I am praying to you today throughout both day and night on behalf of your servants the Israelites. I am confessing the sins of the Israelites that we have committed against you -- both I myself and my family have sinned.
Leviticus 26:39
"'As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors' iniquities which are with them.
Ezra 9:6
I prayed, "O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God! For our iniquities have climbed higher than our heads, and our guilt extends to the heavens.
Psalm 106:6
We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong, we have done evil.
Daniel 9:3
So I turned my attention to the Lord God to implore him by prayer and requests, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.
General references
Deuteronomy 29:10
You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God -- the heads of your tribes, your elders, your officials, every Israelite man,