11 occurrences

'Unclean' in the Bible

And I took you into a fertile land, where you were living on its fruit and its wealth; but when you came in, you made my land unclean, and made my heritage a disgusting thing.

Verse ConceptsCropsAbundance, MaterialFertile LandPolluting The LandThe Environment

How are you able to say, I am not unclean, I have not gone after the Baals? see your way in the valley, be clear about what you have done: you are a quick-footed camel twisting her way in and out;

Verse ConceptsPeople Being Unclean

They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come back to me? says the Lord.

Verse Conceptsdivorce, in OTSin, Effects OfPolluting The LandDivorceLeaving Parents For SpouseWaiting Till Marriagepotential

Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.

Verse ConceptsNomadsUsing RoadsPolluting The LandSpiritual HarlotrySex Between NationsThings On High

So that through all her loose behaviour the land became unclean, and she was untrue, giving herself to stones and trees.

Verse ConceptsWoodAnimismPolluting The LandWorship At TreesInfidelityadultry

For the children of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes, says the Lord: they have put their disgusting images in the house which is named by my name, making it unclean.

Verse ConceptsIrreverenceAbominations, Idolatry IsAbominations, Sin IsPollutions

And I will give them the reward of their evil-doing and their sin twice over; because they have made my land unclean, and have made my heritage full of the bodies of their unholy and disgusting things.

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionCarcass, Literal UseAbominations, Idolatry IsPolluting The LandDouble Penalty

And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which they have made unclean, will be like the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs perfumes have been burned to all the army of heaven, and drink offerings drained out to other gods.

Verse ConceptsFalse Religiondrink offeringHost Of HeavenRoofAltars, PaganRooftopDifferent Gods

For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsLeaders, SpiritualWicked ProphetsPeople Being Unclean

So this is what the Lord of armies has said about the prophets: See, I will give them a bitter plant for their food, and bitter water for their drink: for from the prophets of Jerusalem unclean behaviour has gone out into all the land.

Verse ConceptsPoisonBitter FoodWicked ProphetsBitternessprophets

But they put their disgusting images into the house which is named by my name, making it unclean.

Verse ConceptsA Place For God's NameAbominations

Bible Theasaurus

Dirty (13 instances)
Impure (44 instances)
Soiled (3 instances)
Unclean (414 instances)

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