Judges 2:2
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2 (A)and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; (B)you shall break down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done?
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Jeremiah 2:36
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36 (A)How much you go about,
changing your way!
You shall be (B)put to shame by Egypt
as you were put to shame by Assyria.
Jeremiah 2:5
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5 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“What wrong did your fathers find in me
that they went far from me,
(B)and went after (C)worthlessness, and became worthless?
Deuteronomy 7:2-4
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2 (A)and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must (B)devote them to complete destruction.[a] (C)You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. 3 (D)You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, 4 for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. (E)Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you (F)quickly.
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- Deuteronomy 7:2 That is, set apart (devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
1 Peter 4:17
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17 For it is time for judgment (A)to begin at the household of God; and (B)if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who (C)do not obey the gospel of God?
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2 Corinthians 6:14-17
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The Temple of the Living God
14 (A)Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For (B)what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or (C)what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 (D)What accord has Christ with Belial?[a] Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For (E)we are the temple of the living God; as God said,
(F)“I will make my dwelling among them and (G)walk among them,
and (H)I will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
17 Therefore (I)go out from their midst,
and be separate from them, says the Lord,
and touch no unclean thing;
then I will welcome you,
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- 2 Corinthians 6:15 Greek Beliar
Jeremiah 7:23-28
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23 But this command I gave them: (A)‘Obey my voice, and (B)I will be your God, and you shall be my people. (C)And walk in all the way that I command you, (D)that it may be well with you.’ 24 (E)But they did not obey or incline their ear, (F)but walked in their own counsels and (G)the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and (H)went backward and not forward. 25 From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, (I)I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day. 26 (J)Yet they did not listen to me or incline their ear, (K)but stiffened their neck. (L)They did worse than their fathers.
27 (M)“So you shall speak all these words to them, but they will not listen to you. (N)You shall call to them, but they will not answer you. 28 And you shall say to them, ‘This is the nation that did not obey the voice of the Lord their God, and did not accept discipline; (O)truth has perished; it is cut off from their lips.
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Jeremiah 2:31-33
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31 And you, O generation, behold the word of the Lord.
Have I been a wilderness to Israel,
or a land of thick darkness?
Why then do my people say, ‘We are free,
we will come no more to you’?
32 (A)Can a virgin forget her ornaments,
or a bride her attire?
Yet (B)my people have forgotten me
days without number.
33 “How well you direct your course
to seek love!
So that even to wicked women
you have taught your ways.
Jeremiah 2:18
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18 (A)And now what do you gain by going to Egypt
to drink the waters of (B)the Nile?
(C)Or what do you gain by going to Assyria
to drink the waters of (D)the Euphrates?[a]
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- Jeremiah 2:18 Hebrew the River
Psalm 106:34-40
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34 They did not (A)destroy the peoples,
(B)as the Lord commanded them,
35 but they (C)mixed with the nations
and learned to do as they did.
36 They served their idols,
which became (D)a snare to them.
37 They (E)sacrificed their sons
and their daughters to (F)the demons;
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 (G)polluted with blood.
39 Thus they (H)became unclean by their acts,
and (I)played the whore in their deeds.
40 Then (J)the anger of the Lord was kindled against (K)his people,
and he abhorred his (L)heritage;
Psalm 78:55-58
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55 He (A)drove out nations before them;
he (B)apportioned them for a possession
and settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.
56 Yet they (C)tested and (D)rebelled against the Most High God
and did not keep his testimonies,
57 but turned away and acted treacherously like their fathers;
they twisted like (E)a deceitful bow.
58 For they (F)provoked him to anger with their (G)high places;
they (H)moved him to jealousy with their (I)idols.
Ezra 9:10-13
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10 “And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments, 11 which you commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land that you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land impure with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations that have filled it from end to end with (A)their uncleanness. 12 (B)Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land (C)and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’ 13 And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for (D)our great guilt, seeing that you, our (E)God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a (F)remnant as this,
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Ezra 9:1-3
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Ezra Prays About Intermarriage
9 After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the (A)Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands (B)with their abominations, from the (C)Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. 2 (D)For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the (E)holy race[a] has (F)mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.” 3 As soon as I heard this, I (G)tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and (H)sat appalled.
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- Ezra 9:2 Hebrew offspring
Judges 2:20
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20 (A)So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he said, “Because this people (B)have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,
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Deuteronomy 20:16-18
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16 But (A)in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, 17 but (B)you shall devote them to complete destruction,[a] the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded, 18 that (C)they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you (D)sin against the Lord your God.
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- Deuteronomy 20:17 That is, set apart (devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
Deuteronomy 12:2-3
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2 (A)You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, (B)on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. 3 You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces (C)their pillars and burn their (D)Asherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and (E)destroy their name out of that place.
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Deuteronomy 7:25-26
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25 The carved images of their gods (A)you shall burn with fire. You (B)shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be (C)ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. 26 And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction[a] like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it, (D)for it is devoted to destruction.
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- Deuteronomy 7:26 That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); twice in this verse
Deuteronomy 7:16
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16 And (A)you shall consume all the peoples that the Lord your God will give over to you. (B)Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be (C)a snare to you.
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Numbers 33:52-53
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52 then (A)you shall drive out (B)all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their (C)figured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places. 53 And you shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it.
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Exodus 34:12-16
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12 (A)Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a (B)snare in your midst. 13 You shall (C)tear down their altars and (D)break their pillars and cut down their (E)Asherim 14 (for (F)you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), 15 (G)lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they (H)whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and (I)you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice, 16 and you take of (J)their daughters for your sons, and their daughters (K)whore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.
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Exodus 32:21
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21 And Moses said to Aaron, (A)“What did this people do to you that you have brought such a great sin upon them?”
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Exodus 23:32-33
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32 (A)You shall make no covenant with them and their gods. 33 They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, (B)it will surely be a snare to you.”
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Genesis 4:10
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10 And the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood (A)is crying to me from the ground.
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Genesis 3:11-12
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11 He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” 12 The man said, (A)“The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.”
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2 Thessalonians 1:8
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8 (A)in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those (B)who do not know God and on those who (C)do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
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