Ezra 9:11

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

you gave through your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land you are entering to possess is an impure land. The surrounding peoples have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness by their impurity and detestable practices.

Cross References

Ezra 6:21

The Israelites who had returned from exile  ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the uncleanness of the Gentiles of the land  , in order to worship the Lord, the God of Israel.

2 Corinthians 7:1

So then, dear friends, since we have these promises,  let us cleanse ourselves from every impurity of the flesh and spirit,  bringing holiness to completion  in the fear of God.

Ezra 9:1

After these things had been done, the leaders approached me and said, ‘The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves  from the surrounding peoples whose detestable practices  are like those of the Canaanites, Hethites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.

2 Chronicles 33:2

He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, imitating the detestable practices of the nations that the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.

Deuteronomy 18:12

Everyone who does these acts is detestable to the Lord, and the Lord your God is driving out the nations before you because of these detestable acts.

Deuteronomy 12:31

You must not do the same to the Lord your God, because they practise every detestable act, which the Lord hates, for their gods. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

2 Kings 21:16

Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another.  This was in addition to his sin that he caused Judah to commit, so that they did what was evil in the Lord’s sight.

Ezra 9:10

Now, our God, what can we say in light of  this? For we have abandoned the commands

Jeremiah 26:5

and by listening to the words of my servants the prophets   #– #whom I have been sending to you time and time again,  , though you did not listen #– #