Verse 1
When these thinges were done, the rulers came to me, and sayde: The people of Israel, and the priestes & Leuites are not separated from the people of the landes, as touching their abhominations: namely of the Chanaanites, Hethites, Pherezites, Iebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
Referenced Verses
- Neh 9:2 : 2 And they that were of the seede of Israel, were separated from all the straunge children, and stoode & knowledged their sinnes, & the wickednes of their fathers:
- Lev 18:24-30 : 24 Ye shall not defile your selues in any of these thinges: for in all these, the nations are defiled whiche I cast out before you. 25 Wherthrough the lande is defiled, and I wyll visite the wyckednesse thereof vpon it, yea and the lande it selfe hath vomited out her inhabitauntes. 26 Ye shall kepe therfore mine ordinaunces and my iudgementes, and commit none of these abhominations, neither any of your owne nation, nor any strauger that soiourneth among you: 27 (For all these abhominations, haue the men of the lande done whiche were before you, and the lande is defiled.) 28 Shall not the lande spewe you out also if ye defile it, as it spewed out the nations that were before you? 29 For whosoeuer shall commit any of these abhominations, the same soules that commit them shall be cut of from among their people. 30 Therefore shall ye kepe myne ordinaunces, that ye commit not one of these abhominable customes whiche were committed before you, and that ye defile not your selues therein: I am the Lorde your God.
- Exod 33:16 : 16 For howe shall it be knowen here, that I and thy people haue founde fauour in thy sight, but in that thou goest with vs? If thou goest with vs, shall not I and thy people haue preeminence before all the people that are vpon the face of the earth?
- Deut 12:30-31 : 30 Beware that thou be not taken in a snare after them, after that they be destroyed before thee, and that thou aske not after their gods, saying: Howe do these nations serue their gods? I wyll do so likewise. 31 Nay, thou shalt not do so vnto the Lorde thy God: for all abhominations, and that whiche the Lorde hateth, the same haue they done vnto their gods.
- Deut 18:9 : 9 When thou art come into the lande which the Lorde thy God geueth thee, thou shalt not learne to do after the abhominations of those nations.
- Deut 20:17-18 : 17 But shalt destroy them without redemption, namely the Hethites, the Amorites, the Chanaanites, the Pherezites, the Heuites, and the Iebusites, as the Lorde thy God hath commaunded thee: 18 That they teache you not to do after all their abhominations which they haue done vnto their Gods, and so ye shoulde sinne agaynst the Lorde your God.
- Deut 23:3-5 : 3 The Ammonites and the Moabites shall not come into the congregation of the Lorde, no not in the tenth generation, nor they shall neuer come into the congregation of the Lorde: 4 Because they met you not with bread and water in the way, when ye came out of Egypt, and because they hyred against thee Balaam the sonne of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee. 5 Neuerthelesse, the Lorde thy God woulde not hearken vnto Balaam: but the Lord thy God turned the curse to a blessing vnto thee, because the Lord thy God loued thee.
- 1 Kgs 11:1 : 1 But king Solomo loued many outlandishe women, & the daughter of Pharao, and women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonites, & Hethites:
- 1 Kgs 11:5-7 : 5 For Solomon folowed Astaroth the god of the Zidons, and Milcom the abhomination of the Ammonites. 6 And Solomon wrought wickednesse in the sight of the Lorde, and folowed not the Lorde perfectly, as dyd Dauid his father. 7 For then dyd Solomon buylde an hye place for Chamos the abhomination of Moabim the hill that is before Hierusalem, & vnto Moloch the abhomination of the children of Ammon.
- 2 Chr 33:2 : 2 But dyd euyll in the sight of the Lorde, like vnto the abhominations of the heathen whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.
- Ezra 6:21-22 : 21 And the children of Israel which were come againe out of captiuitie, and all such as had seperated them selues vnto them from the filthinesse of the heathen of the lande, to seeke the Lorde God of Israel, did eate, 22 And helde the feast of vnleauened bread seuen dayes with ioy: For the Lorde had made them glad, and turned the heart of the king of Assur vnto them, to strengthen their handes in the worke of the house of God, euen the God of Israel.
- Ezra 10:8 : 8 And that whosoeuer came not within three dayes, according to the deuice of the rulers and elders, all his substaunce should be forfayted, and he should be put out from the congregation of them of the captiuitie.
- Ezra 10:10-11 : 10 And Esdras the priest stoode vp, and sayd vnto them: Ye haue transgressed, & haue taken straunge wyues, to make the trespasse of Israel yet more. 11 Confesse now therfore vnto the Lord God of our fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate your selues from the people of the lande, and from the straunge wyues.
- Neh 4:3 : 3 And Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and sayde: Though they buyld, yet if a foxe go vp, he shall breake downe their stony wall.
- Neh 4:7 : 7 But when Sanaballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, Ammonites, and Asdodites, heard that the walles of Hierusalem were made vp, & that the breaches began to be stopped, they were very wroth,
- Lev 18:3 : 3 After the doynges of the lande of Egypt wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doinges of the lande of Chanaan whyther I wyll bryng you, shall ye not do: neither walke in their ordinaunces.
- Num 23:9 : 9 For from the toppe of the rockes I see hym, and from the hylles I beholde hym: lo, the people shall dwell by them selues, and shal not be reckened among the nations.
- Num 25:1-3 : 1 And Israel abode in Sittim, and the people began to commit whoredome with the daughters of Moab. 2 Whiche called the people vnto the sacrifice of their gods: And the people dyd eate, and bowed downe to their gods. 3 And Israel coupled hym selfe vnto Baal Peor, and the indignation of the Lorde was kindeled against Israel.
- Gen 15:16 : 16 But in the fourth generation they shal come hyther agayne: for the wickednesse of the Amorites is not yet full.
- Gen 15:19-21 : 19 The Kenites and the Kenizites, and the Cadmonites, 20 And the Hethites, and the Perizites, and the Giauntes, 21 The Amorites also, and the Chanaanites, and Girgasites, & the Iebusites.
- Exod 13:5 : 5 When the Lorde hath brought thee into the lande of the Chanaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Heuites, and Iebusites, which he sware vnto thy fathers that he would geue thee, a lande wherin mylke and hony floweth: thou shalt kepe this seruice in this same month.
- Exod 23:23 : 23 For myne angell shall go before thee, and bryng thee in vnto the Amorites, and Hethites, and Pharezites, & Chanaanites, Heuites, and Iebusites, and I shall destroy them.
- Neh 13:1-3 : 1 And that day dyd they read in the booke of Moyses in the audience of the people, and therein was founde written, that the Ammonites, & Moabites shoulde neuer come into the congregation of God, 2 Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and water, but hired Balaam against them that he should curse them: and our God turned the curse into a blessing. 3 Nowe when they had hearde the law, they separated from Israel euery one that had mixt him selfe therin.
- Ps 106:35 : 35 But they were mingled amongst the Heathen: and learned their workes.
- Isa 52:11 : 11 Away, away, get you out from hence, and touche no vncleane thyng: Go out from among such, and be cleane that beare the vessell of the Lorde.
- Jer 26:10 : 10 And when all the people were gathered about Ieremie in the house of the Lorde, the princes of Iuda hearde of this rumour, and they came soone out of the kynges palace into the house of the Lorde, and sate them downe before the newe doore of the Lorde.
- Jer 26:16 : 16 Then sayde the rulers and the people vnto the priestes and prophetes: This man may not be condempned to death, for he hath preached vnto vs in the name of the Lorde our God.
- Rom 2:17-25 : 17 Behold, thou art called a Iewe, and restest in the lawe, and makest thy boast of God, 18 And knowest his wyll, and alowest the thinges that be excellent, infourmed by the lawe: 19 And beleuest that thou thy selfe art a guyde of the blynde, a lyght of them which are in darknesse, 20 An infourmer of them whiche lacke discretion, a teacher of the vnlearned: which hast the fourme of knowledge, & of the trueth in the lawe. 21 Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest not thy selfe? Thou preachest a man shoulde not steale, yet thou stealest. 22 Thou that sayest a man shoulde not commit adulterie, breakest wedlocke. Thou abhorrest idoles, and yet robbest God of his honour. 23 Thou that makest thy boast of ye lawe, through breakyng the lawe dishonorest God. 24 For the name of God is euyll spoken of among the Gentiles, through you: As it is written. 25 For circumcision veryly auayleth, yf thou kepe the lawe: But yf thou be a breaker of the lawe, thy circumcision is made vncircumcision.
- 2 Cor 6:14-18 : 14 And beare not ye a straunge yoke with the vnbeleuers. For what felowship hath righteousnesse with vnrighteousnesse? Or what communion hath lyght with darkenesse? 15 Or what concorde hath Christe with belyall? Eyther what part hath he that beleueth, with an infidell? 16 Or howe agreeth the temple of God with images? For ye are the temple of the lyuing God, as saide God, I wyll dwell in them, & walke in them & wyll be their God, & they shalbe my people. 17 Wherfore come out fro among them, and separate your selues from them (saith the Lorde) and touche none vncleane thyng, and I wyll receaue you, 18 And wyll be a father vnto you, and ye shalbe my sonnes and daughters, saith the Lorde almightie.