Verse 14

Are we again to go against your orders, taking wives from among the people who do these disgusting things? would you not be angry with us till our destruction was complete, till there was not one who got away safe?

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 9:8 : 8 Again in Horeb you made the Lord angry, and in his wrath he would have put an end to you.
  • Deut 9:14 : 14 Let me send destruction on them till their very name is cut off; and I will make of you a nation greater and stronger than they.
  • Ezra 9:2 : 2 For they have taken their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the peoples of the lands; and in fact the captains and rulers have been the first to do this evil.
  • Ezra 9:8 : 8 And now for a little time grace has come to us from the Lord our God, to let a small band of us get free and to give us a nail in his holy place, so that our God may give light to our eyes and a measure of new life in our prison chains.
  • Neh 13:23-27 : 23 And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab: 24 And their children were talking half in the language of Ashdod; they had no knowledge of the Jews' language, but made use of the language of the two peoples. 25 And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves. 26 Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women. 27 Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?
  • Isa 1:9 : 9 If the Lord of armies had not kept some at least of us safe, we would have been like Sodom, and the fate of Gomorrah would have been ours.
  • Jer 46:28 : 28 Have no fear, O Jacob, my servant, says the Lord; for I am with you: for I will put an end to all the nations where I have sent you, but I will not put an end to you completely: though with wise purpose I will put right your errors, and will not let you go quite without punishment.
  • Ezek 6:8 : 8 But still, I will keep a small band safe from the sword among the nations, when you are sent wandering among the countries.
  • John 5:14 : 14 After a time Jesus came across him in the Temple and said to him, See, you are well and strong; do no more sin for fear a worse thing comes to you.
  • Rom 6:1 : 1 What may we say, then? are we to go on in sin so that there may be more grace?
  • 2 Pet 2:20-21 : 20 For if, after they have got free from the unclean things of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again taken in the net and overcome, their last condition is worse than their first. 21 For it would have been better for them to have had no knowledge of the way of righteousness, than to go back again from the holy law which was given to them, after having knowledge of it.
  • Deut 32:26-27 : 26 I said I would send them wandering far away, I would make all memory of them go from the minds of men: 27 But for the fear that their haters, uplifted in their pride, might say, Our hand is strong, the Lord has not done all this.
  • Judg 2:2 : 2 And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done?
  • Exod 23:32 : 32 Make no agreement with them or with their gods.
  • Exod 32:10 : 10 Now do not get in my way, for my wrath is burning against them; I will send destruction on them, but of you I will make a great nation.
  • Num 16:21 : 21 Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them.
  • Num 16:45 : 45 Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them. And they went down on their faces.