and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: “Your [a]birth (A)and your nativity are from the land of Canaan; (B)your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

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  1. Ezekiel 16:3 origin and your birth

45 You are your mother’s daughter, [a]loathing husband and children; and you are the (A)sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children; (B)your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

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  1. Ezekiel 16:45 Or despising

The Lord Comforts Zion(A)

51 “Listen to Me, (B)you who [a]follow after righteousness,
You who seek the Lord:
Look to the rock from which you were hewn,
And to the hole of the pit from which you were dug.
(C)Look to Abraham your father,
And to Sarah who bore you;
(D)For I called him alone,
And (E)blessed him and increased him.”

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  1. Isaiah 51:1 pursue

“You are the Lord God,
Who chose (A)Abram,
And brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans,
And gave him the name (B)Abraham;

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17 but you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittite and the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the Lord your God has commanded you,

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44 (A)You are of your father the devil, and the (B)desires of your father you want to (C)do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and (D)does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.

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John Preaches to the People(A)

Then he said to the multitudes that came out to be baptized by him, (B)“Brood[a] of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

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  1. Luke 3:7 Offspring

30 ‘Return(A) it to its sheath.
(B)I will judge you
In the place where you were created,
(C)In the land of your [a]nativity.

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  1. Ezekiel 21:30 Or origin

10 Hear the word of the Lord,
You rulers (A)of Sodom;
Give ear to the law of our God,
You people of Gomorrah:

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26 And he behaved very abominably in following idols, according to all (A)that the Amorites had done, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.

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16 But (A)in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity (B)of the Amorites (C)is not yet complete.”

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The Imperative of Love(A)

10 In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

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Intermarriage with Pagans

When these things were done, the leaders came to me, saying, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not (A)separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, (B)with respect to the abominations of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

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(A)among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in (B)the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and (C)were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

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24 But I say to you (A)that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you.”

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But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, (A)“Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from (B)the wrath to come?

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11 (A)“Because Manasseh king of Judah has done these abominations ((B)he has acted more wickedly than all the (C)Amorites who were before him, and (D)has also made Judah sin with his idols),

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14 (A)“Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in (B)sincerity and in truth, and (C)put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of [a]the River and (D)in Egypt. Serve the Lord!

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  1. Joshua 24:14 The Euphrates

A Chosen People(A)

“When the Lord your God brings you into the land which you go to (B)possess, and has cast out many (C)nations before you, (D)the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you,

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29 Then Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram’s wife was (A)Sarai,[a] and the name of Nahor’s wife, (B)Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah.

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  1. Genesis 11:29 Sarah, Gen. 17:15

25 After he begot Terah, Nahor lived one hundred and nineteen years, and begot sons and daughters.

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