Ezra 9:11

New International Version

you gave through your servants the prophets when you said: ‘The land you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the corruption of its peoples. By their detestable practices they have filled it with their impurity from one end to the other.

Cross References

2 Kings 21:16

Moreover, Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end—besides the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, so that they did evil in the eyes of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 33:2

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, following the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had driven out before the Israelites.

Ezra 6:21

So the Israelites who had returned from the exile ate it, together with all who had separated themselves from the unclean practices of their Gentile neighbors in order to seek the Lord, the God of Israel.

Ezra 9:1

After these things had been done, the leaders came to me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and the Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the neighboring peoples with their detestable practices, like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians and Amorites.

Ezra 9:10

“But now, our God, what can we say after this? For we have forsaken the commands

Jeremiah 26:5

and if you do not listen to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I have sent to you again and again (though you have not listened),

2 Corinthians 7:1

Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.

Deuteronomy 12:31

You must not worship the Lord your God in their way, because in worshiping their gods, they do all kinds of detestable things the Lord hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

Deuteronomy 18:12

Anyone who does these things is detestable to the Lord; because of these same detestable practices the Lord your God will drive out those nations before you.