Jeremiah 2:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I brought you to a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but after you entered, you defiled my land; you made my inheritance   detestable.

Cross References

Jeremiah 16:18

I will first repay them double for their iniquity  and sin because they have polluted my land. They have filled my inheritance with the carcasses of their abhorrent and detestable idols.’

Numbers 13:27

They reported to Moses, ‘We went into the land where you sent us. Indeed it is flowing with milk and honey,  and here is some of its fruit.

Ezekiel 36:17

‘Son of man, while the house of Israel lived in their land, they defiled it with their conduct and actions.  Their behaviour before me was like menstrual impurity.

Jeremiah 3:9

Indifferent to  her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones  and trees.

Jeremiah 3:1

If  a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Wouldn’t such a land  become totally defiled? But you! You have prostituted yourself with many partners   – can you return to me? This is the  Lord’s declaration.

Micah 2:10

Get up and leave, for this is not your place of rest because defilement  brings destruction – a grievous destruction!

Ezekiel 20:6

On that day I swore  to them that I would bring them out  of the land of Egypt into a land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey,  the most beautiful of all lands.

Nehemiah 9:25

They captured fortified cities and fertile land and took possession of well-supplied houses, cisterns cut out of rock, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. They ate, were filled, became prosperous, and delighted in your great goodness.

Deuteronomy 21:23

you are not to leave his corpse on the tree overnight but are to bury him that day, for anyone hung on a tree is under God’s curse.  You must not defile the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 6:18

Do what is right and good in the Lord’s sight, so that you may prosper and so that you may enter and possess the good land  the Lord your God swore to give your ancestors,

Jeremiah 3:2

Look to the barren heights  and see. Where have you not been immoral? You sat waiting for them beside the roads like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

Jeremiah 32:23

They entered and possessed it, but they did not obey you or live according to your instructions.  They failed to perform all you commanded them to do,  and so you have brought all this disaster on them.

Jeremiah 32:30

From their youth, the Israelites and Judeans have done nothing but what is evil in my sight! They have done nothing but anger me by the work of their hands’   #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #

Ezekiel 20:28

When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree,  they offered their sacrifices and presented their offensive offerings there. They also sent up their pleasing aromas and poured out their drink offerings there.

Hosea 9:3

They will not stay in the land of the  Lord. Instead, Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean food  in Assyria.

Deuteronomy 32:9

But the  Lord’s portion is his people, Jacob, his own inheritance.

Nehemiah 9:26

But they were disobedient and rebelled against you. They flung your law behind their backs and killed your prophets who warned them in order to turn them back to you. They committed terrible blasphemies.

Isaiah 19:25

The Lord of Armies will bless them, saying, ‘Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork,  and Israel my inheritance are blessed.’

Ezekiel 20:24

For they did not practise my ordinances but rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed  on their fathers’ idols.

Ezekiel 23:35

Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: ‘Because you have forgotten me  and cast me behind your back,  you must bear the consequences of your indecency and promiscuity.’