Jeremiah 2:7

Modern English Version

And I brought you into a plentiful country to eat its fruit and its goodness. But when you entered, you defiled My land and made My inheritance an abomination.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:25

They captured unassailable cities and a fertile land. They possessed houses full of all goods, wells dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance, so they ate, were filled, and became fat, and they indulged themselves in Your great goodness.

Nehemiah 9:26

“Nevertheless they became disobedient, and rebelled against You, and cast Your law behind their backs, and killed Your prophets who had warned them to turn back to You. But they committed terrible provocations.

Isaiah 19:25

whom the Lord of Hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.”

Jeremiah 16:18

First I will doubly recompense their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land; they have filled My inheritance with the carcasses of their detestable and abominable things.

Jeremiah 3:1

If a man divorces his wife, and she goes from him and becomes another man’s, shall he return to her again? Shall not that land be greatly polluted? But you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to Me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:2

Lift up your eyes to the high places, and see! Where have you not been ravished? In the roads you have sat for them as the Arabian in the wilderness. And you have polluted the land with your harlotry and with your wickedness.

Jeremiah 3:9

Through the lightness of her harlotry she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and with trees.

Jeremiah 32:23

And they entered and possessed it. But they did not obey Your voice or walk in Your law. They have done nothing of all that You commanded them to do; therefore You have caused all this calamity to come upon them.

Jeremiah 32:30

Indeed the Israelites and the Judahites have only done evil before Me from their youth. For the Israelites have only provoked Me to anger with the work of their hands, says the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:24

because they had not executed My judgments, but had despised My statutes and had polluted My Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.

Ezekiel 20:28

When I had brought them into the land for which I lifted up My hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill and all the leafy trees, and there they offered their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering. There also they made their sweet aroma and there poured out their drink offerings.

Ezekiel 20:6

on that day that I lifted up My hand to them to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had selected for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands,

Ezekiel 23:35

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, now bear the punishment of your lewdness and your harlotries.

Ezekiel 36:17

Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds. Their way was before Me as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.

Hosea 9:3

They will not dwell in the land of the Lord; but Ephraim will return to Egypt, and they will eat unclean things in Assyria.

Micah 2:10

Get up and go, for this is not the resting place, because uncleanness ruins, and ruin sickens.

Numbers 13:27

They reported to him and said, “We came to the land where you sent us, and surely it flows with milk and honey, and this is the fruit of it.

Deuteronomy 21:23

then his body must not remain all night on the tree, but you must bury him that day (for he that is hanged is accursed of God) so that your land may not be defiled, which the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.

Deuteronomy 32:9

For the Lord’s portion is His people; Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.

Deuteronomy 6:18

You shall do what is right and good in the sight of the Lord that it may be well with you and that you may go in and possess the good land which the Lord swore to your fathers,