Malachi 2:11
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11 Judah has been (A)faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For (B)Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the Lord, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
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2 Corinthians 6:14-18
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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,
18 (J)and I will be a father to you,
and you shall be sons and daughters to me,
says the Lord Almighty.”
Footnotes
- 2 Corinthians 6:15 Greek Beliar
Ezra 9:1-2
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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.”
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- Ezra 9:2 Hebrew offspring
Revelation 21:8
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8 (A)But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, (B)their portion will be in (C)the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is (D)the second death.”
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Hosea 6:7
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Ezekiel 22:11
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11 (A)One commits abomination with his neighbor's wife; (B)another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; (C)another in you violates his sister, his father's daughter.
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Ezekiel 18:13
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13 (A)lends at interest, and takes profit; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; (B)his blood shall be upon himself.
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Jeremiah 7:10
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10 and then come and stand before me in this house, (A)which is called by my name, and say, ‘We are delivered!’—only to go on doing all these abominations?
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Jeremiah 3:7-9
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7 And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me,’ but she did not return, and her treacherous (A)sister Judah saw it. 8 She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, (B)I had sent her away with (C)a decree of divorce. (D)Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went (E)and played the whore. 9 Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with (F)stone and tree.
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Jeremiah 2:21-22
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21 (A)Yet I planted you a choice vine,
wholly of pure seed.
(B)How then have you turned degenerate
and become a wild vine?
22 Though you wash yourself with lye
and use much soap,
(C)the stain of your guilt is still before me,
declares the Lord God.
Jeremiah 2:7-8
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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.
8 The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’
(C)Those who handle the law did not know me;
(D)the shepherds[a] transgressed against me;
(E)the prophets prophesied by Baal
and went after (F)things that do not profit.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 2:8 Or rulers
Jeremiah 2:3
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3 (A)Israel was holy to the Lord,
(B)the firstfruits of his harvest.
(C)All who ate of it incurred guilt;
disaster came upon them,
declares the Lord.”
Psalm 106:34-39
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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.
Psalm 106:28
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Nehemiah 13:23-29
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23 In those days also I saw the Jews (A)who had married women (B)of Ashdod, (C)Ammon, and (D)Moab. 24 And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but only the language of each people. 25 (E)And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. (F)And I made them take an oath in the name of God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves. 26 (G)Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? (H)Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was (I)beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin. 27 Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and (J)act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?”
28 And one of the sons of (K)Jehoiada, the son of (L)Eliashib the high priest, was the son-in-law of (M)Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I chased him from me. 29 (N)Remember them, O my God, because they have desecrated the priesthood (O)and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.
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Ezra 10:2
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2 And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: (A)“We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.
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Ezra 9:12
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12 (A)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 (B)and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’
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1 Kings 11:1-8
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Solomon Turns from the Lord
11 Now (A)King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women, 2 from the nations concerning which the Lord had said to the people of Israel, (B)“You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love. 3 He had 700 wives, who were princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart. 4 For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and (C)his heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God, (D)as was the heart of David his father. 5 For Solomon went after (E)Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after (F)Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. 6 So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the Lord and did not wholly follow the Lord, as David his father had done. 7 Then Solomon built a high place for (G)Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for (H)Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem. 8 And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods.
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Judges 3:6
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6 (A)And their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.
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Deuteronomy 33:26-29
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26 (A)“There is none like God, O (B)Jeshurun,
(C)who rides through the heavens to your help,
through the skies in his majesty.
27 The eternal God is your (D)dwelling place,[a]
and underneath are the everlasting arms.[b]
And he thrust out the enemy before you
and said, ‘Destroy.’
28 So Israel lived in safety,
(E)Jacob lived (F)alone,[c]
in a land of grain and wine,
whose heavens drop down dew.
29 Happy are you, O Israel! (G)Who is like you,
a people (H)saved by the Lord,
(I)the shield of your help,
and the sword of your triumph!
Your enemies shall come fawning to you,
and you shall tread upon their backs.”
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 33:27 Or a dwelling place
- Deuteronomy 33:27 Revocalization of verse 27 yields He subdues the ancient gods, and shatters the forces of old
- Deuteronomy 33:28 Hebrew the abode of Jacob was alone
Deuteronomy 14:2
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2 For (A)you are a people holy to the Lord your God, and the Lord has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
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Deuteronomy 7:3-6
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3 (A)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. (B)Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you (C)quickly. 5 But thus shall you deal with them: (D)you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their (E)pillars and chop down their (F)Asherim and (G)burn their carved images with fire.
6 “For (H)you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be (I)a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.
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Leviticus 20:26
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26 (A)You shall be holy to me, (B)for I the Lord am holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be mine.
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Leviticus 18:24-30
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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. 29 For everyone who does any of these abominations, the persons who do them shall be cut off from among their people. 30 (G)So keep my charge never to practice (H)any of these abominable customs that were practiced before you, and never to make yourselves unclean by them: (I)I am the Lord your God.”
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Exodus 19:5-6
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5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be (A)my treasured possession among all peoples, for (B)all the earth is mine; 6 and you shall be to me a (C)kingdom of priests and (D)a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”
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