Ezra 9:1

New American Bible - revised edition

When these matters had been concluded, the leaders approached me with this report: “Neither the Israelite laymen nor the priests nor the Levites have kept themselves separate from the peoples of the lands and their abominations—Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites—

Cross References

Genesis 15:16

In the fourth generation your descendants will return here, for the wickedness of the Amorites is not yet complete.

1 Kings 11:1

King Solomon loved many foreign women besides the daughter of Pharaoh—Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, Hittites—

2 Chronicles 33:2

He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight, following the abominable practices of the nations whom the Lord dispossessed before the Israelites.

2 Chronicles 8:7

All the people who were left of the Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites who were not Israelites—

Ezra 10:2

Then Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, one of the descendants of Elam, made this appeal to Ezra: “We have indeed betrayed our God by taking as wives foreign women of the peoples of the land. Yet in spite of this there still remains a hope for Israel.

Ezra 10:8

and that whoever failed to appear within three days would, according to the judgment of the leaders and elders, suffer the confiscation of all his possessions, and would be excluded from the assembly of the exiles.

Nehemiah 13:23

Also in those days I saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, or Moab.

Nehemiah 4:3

We prayed to our God and posted a watch against them day and night for fear of what they might do.

Nehemiah 4:7

I stationed guards down below, behind the wall, near the exposed points, assigning them by family groups with their swords, spears, and bows.

Nehemiah 9:2

Those of Israelite descent separated themselves from all who were of foreign extraction, then stood forward and confessed their sins and the guilty deeds of their ancestors.

Psalm 106:35

But mingled with the nations and imitated their ways.

Exodus 13:5

Therefore, when the Lord, your God, has brought you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perrizites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you will perform the following service in this month.

Exodus 23:23

My angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites and Jebusites; and I will wipe them out.

Exodus 33:16

For how can it be known that I and your people have found favor with you, except by your going with us? Then we, your people and I, will be singled out from every other people on the surface of the earth.”

Isaiah 52:11

Depart, depart, go out from there, touch nothing unclean! Out from there! Purify yourselves, you who carry the vessels of the Lord.

Jeremiah 26:10

When the princes of Judah heard about these things, they came up from the house of the king to the house of the Lord and convened at the New Gate of the house of the Lord.

Jeremiah 26:16

Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, “This man does not deserve a death sentence; it is in the name of the Lord, our God, that he speaks to us.”

Leviticus 18:3

You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you once lived, nor shall you do as they do in the land of Canaan, where I am bringing you; do not conform to their customs.

Malachi 2:11

Judah has broken faith; an abominable thing has been done in Israel and in Jerusalem. Judah has profaned the Lord’s holy place, which he loves, and has married a daughter of a foreign god.

Numbers 23:9

For from the top of the crags I see him, from the heights I behold him. Here is a people that lives apart and does not reckon itself among the nations.

Numbers 25:6

At this a certain Israelite came and brought in a Midianite woman to his kindred in the view of Moses and of the whole Israelite community, while they were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Deuteronomy 18:9

When you come into the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you, you shall not learn to imitate the abominations of the nations there.

Deuteronomy 23:8

Do not abhor the Edomite: he is your brother. Do not abhor the Egyptian: you were a resident alien in his country.

Deuteronomy 7:1

When the Lord, your God, brings you into the land which you are about to enter to possess, and removes many nations before you—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and powerful than you—

Joshua 23:12

For if you ever turn away from him and join with the remnant of these nations that survive among you, by intermarrying and intermingling with them,