Malachi 2:11

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

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 9:12

Do not, then, give your daughters to their sons in marriage, and do not take their daughters for your sons. Never promote their welfare and prosperity; thus you will grow strong, enjoy the produce of the land, and leave it as an inheritance to your children forever.

Psalm 106:28

They joined in the rites of Baal of Peor, ate food sacrificed to the dead.

Jeremiah 2:3

Israel was dedicated to the Lord, the first fruits of his harvest; All who ate of it were held guilty, evil befell them—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:10

In spite of all this, Judah, the traitor, her sister, did not return to me wholeheartedly, but insincerely—oracle of the Lord. Restoration of Israel.

Jeremiah 7:10

and then come and stand in my presence in this house, which bears my name, and say: “We are safe! We can commit all these abominations again!”?

Ezekiel 18:13

lends at interest and exacts usury—this son certainly shall not live. Because he practiced all these abominations, he shall surely be put to death; his own blood shall be on him.

Ezekiel 22:11

There are those in you who do abominable things with their neighbors’ wives, men who defile their daughters-in-law by incest, men who coerce their sisters to intercourse, the daughters of their own fathers.

Hosea 6:7

But they, at Adam, violated the covenant; there they betrayed me.

Leviticus 20:26

To me, therefore, you shall be holy; for I, the Lord, am holy, and I have set you apart from other peoples to be my own.

Malachi 1:1

An oracle. The word of the Lord to Israel through Malachi.

Deuteronomy 14:2

For you are a people holy to the Lord, your God; the Lord, your God, has chosen you from all the peoples on the face of the earth to be a people specially his own. Clean and Unclean Animals.

Revelation 21:8

But as for cowards, the unfaithful, the depraved, murderers, the unchaste, sorcerers, idol-worshipers, and deceivers of every sort, their lot is in the burning pool of fire and sulfur, which is the second death.” The New Jerusalem.

Judges 3:6

They took their daughters in marriage, and gave their own daughters to their sons in marriage, and served their gods. Othniel.