Jeremiah 2:7
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7 (A)And I brought you into a plentiful land
to enjoy its fruits and its good things.
But when you came in, (B)you defiled my land
and made my heritage an abomination.
Deuteronomy 8:7-9
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7 For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land, (A)a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out in the valleys and hills, 8 a land of wheat and barley, (B)of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey, 9 a land in which you will eat bread without scarcity, in which you will lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills you can dig copper.
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Jeremiah 16:18
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18 But first (A)I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and (B)have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”
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Psalm 106:38-39
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38 they poured out innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
and the land was (A)polluted with blood.
39 Thus they (B)became unclean by their acts,
and (C)played the whore in their deeds.
Numbers 13:27
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27 And they told him, “We came to the land to which you sent us. It (A)flows with milk and honey, (B)and this is its fruit.
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Micah 2:10
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10 (A)Arise and go,
for this is no (B)place to rest,
because of (C)uncleanness that destroys
with a grievous destruction.
Ezekiel 36:17
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17 (A)“Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, (B)they defiled it by their ways and their deeds. Their ways before me were (C)like the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity.
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Ezekiel 20:6
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6 On that day I swore to them that (A)I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land (B)flowing with milk and honey, (C)the most glorious of all lands.
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Jeremiah 3:9
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9 Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with (A)stone and tree.
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Jeremiah 3:1
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3 (A)“If[a] a man divorces his wife
and she goes from him
and becomes another man's wife,
will he return to her?
(B)Would not that land be greatly polluted?
(C)You have played the whore with many lovers;
and would you return to me?
declares the Lord.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 3:1 Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew Saying, “If
Nehemiah 9:25
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25 And they captured (A)fortified cities and (B)a rich land, and took possession of (C)houses full of all good things, cisterns already hewn, vineyards, olive orchards and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled (D)and became fat and delighted themselves in (E)your great goodness.
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Deuteronomy 21:23
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23 (A)his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for (B)a hanged man is cursed by God. (C)You shall not defile your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.
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Deuteronomy 11:10-12
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10 For the land that you are entering to take possession of it is not like the land of Egypt, from which you have come, where you sowed your seed and irrigated it,[a] like a garden of vegetables. 11 (A)But the land that you are going over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water by the rain from heaven, 12 a land that the Lord your God cares for. (B)The eyes of the Lord your God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year.
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- Deuteronomy 11:10 Hebrew watered it with your feet
Deuteronomy 6:18
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18 (A)And you shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may go well with you, and that you may go in and take possession of the good land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers
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Deuteronomy 6:10-11
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10 “And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities (A)that you did not build, 11 and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full,
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Numbers 35:33-34
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33 You shall not (A)pollute the land in which you live, for blood (B)pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except (C)by the blood of the one who shed it. 34 (D)You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, (E)for I the Lord dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.”
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Numbers 14:7-8
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7 and said to all the congregation of the people of Israel, (A)“The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land. 8 If (B)the Lord delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us, (C)a land that flows with milk and honey.
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Leviticus 18:24-28
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24 (A)“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, (B)for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, 25 and the (C)land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land (D)vomited out its inhabitants. 26 But (E)you shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the (F)native or the stranger who sojourns among you 27 (for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean), 28 lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
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