Hosea 9:3
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3 They shall not remain in the land of the Lord,
but Ephraim shall return to Egypt,
and in Assyria they shall eat unclean food.(A)
Ezekiel 4:13
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13 The Lord said, “Thus shall the people of Israel eat their bread, unclean, among the nations to which I will drive them.”(A)
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Hosea 8:13
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13 Though they offer choice sacrifices,[a]
though they eat flesh,
the Lord does not accept them.
Now he will remember their iniquity
and punish their sins;
they shall return to Egypt.(A)
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- 8.13 Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain
Leviticus 25:23
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23 The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants.(A)
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Jeremiah 2:7
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7 I brought you into a plentiful land
to eat its fruits and its good things.
But when you entered you defiled my land
and made my heritage an abomination.(A)
Hosea 7:11
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Futile Reliance on the Nations
11 Ephraim has become like a dove,
silly and without sense;
they call upon Egypt, they go to Assyria.(A)
Daniel 1:8
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8 But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the royal rations of food and wine, so he asked the palace master to allow him not to defile himself.(A)
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Jeremiah 16:18
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18 And[a] I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.(A)
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- 16.18 Gk: Heb And first
2 Kings 17:6
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6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria captured Samaria; he carried the Israelites away to Assyria. He placed them in Halah, on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.(A)
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1 Kings 9:7
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7 then I will cut Israel off from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a taunt among all peoples.(A)
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Deuteronomy 28:63
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63 And just as the Lord took delight in making you prosperous and numerous, so the Lord will take delight in bringing you to ruin and destruction; you shall be plucked off the land that you are entering to possess.(A)
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Deuteronomy 4:26
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26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to occupy; you will not live long on it but will be utterly destroyed.(A)
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Acts 10:14
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14 But Peter said, “By no means, Lord, for I have never eaten anything that is profane or unclean.”(A)
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Micah 2:10
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10 Arise and go,
for this is no place to rest,
because of uncleanness that destroys
with a violent destruction.(A)
Hosea 11:11
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11 They shall come trembling like birds from Egypt
and like doves from the land of Assyria,
and I will return them to their homes, says the Lord.(A)
Hosea 11:5
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5 They shall return to the land of Egypt,
and Assyria shall be their king,
because they have refused to return to me.(A)
Hosea 9:6
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6 For even if they escape destruction,
Egypt shall gather them;
Memphis shall bury them.
Nettles shall possess their precious things of silver;[a]
thorns shall be in their tents.(A)
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- 9.6 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Isaiah 11:15-16
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15 And the Lord will dry up[a]
the tongue of the sea of Egypt
and will wave his hand over the River
with his scorching wind
and will split it into seven channels
and make a way to cross on foot;(A)
16 so there shall be a highway from Assyria
for the remnant that is left of his people,
as there was for Israel
when they came up from the land of Egypt.(B)
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- 11.15 Gk Syr: Heb destroy
Joshua 23:15
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15 But just as all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the bad things until he has destroyed you from this good land that the Lord your God has given you.(A)
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Deuteronomy 28:68
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68 The Lord will bring you back in ships to Egypt, by a route that I promised you would never see again, and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”
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Leviticus 20:22
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22 “You shall keep all my statutes and all my ordinances and observe them, so that the land to which I bring you to settle in may not vomit you out.(A)
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Leviticus 18:28
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28 otherwise the land will vomit you out for defiling it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
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