Ezra 9:1 Cross References - Thomson

¹ When these things were done, the chiefs came to me and said, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the. neighbouring tribes. In their abominations, the Ethites, the Pherezites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, and the Moserites, and the Amorites, are the same with the Chananites.

¹⁶ And in the fourth generation they shall be brought back hither. For the sins of the Amorites have not yet come to the full.

¹⁹ the Kenites and the Kenezites, and the Kedmonites ²⁰ and the Chettites and the Pherezites and the Raphaeims ²¹ and the Amorites and the Chananites and the Evites and the Gergesites and the Jebusites.

⁵ And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land of the Chananites and the Chettites and the Amorites, and the Evites and the Jebusites and the Gergasites and the Pherezites which the Lord with an oath promised to thy fathers that he would give thee; a land flowing with milk and honey, thou shalt perform this religious service in this month.

²³ For my angel shall go before thee as thy leader, and conduct thee to the Amorite and the Chettite and the Pherezite and the Chananite and the Gergasite and the Evite and the Jebusite, and I will exterminate them.

¹⁶ for how can it be known for certain that I and this people have found favour in thy sight, but by thy going with us? Or I and this people be glorious above all that are on the earth?

³ you shall not do according to the customs of Egypt, in which you sojourned; nor shall you do according to the customs of the land of Chanaan, to which I am leading you; you shall not walk by their ordinances.

²⁴ Be not polluted with any such things; for with all such things have those nations been polluted, which I drive out before you, ²⁵ and the land hath been polluted, and for its sake I have retributed to them their iniquity, and the land is become a mortal enemy to them who dwell therein. ²⁶ You therefore shall keep all my institutions and all my ordinances; and none of you, neither the native, nor the proselyte who dwelleth among you, ²⁷ shall commit any of these abominations, which the men of the country who were before you have committed, and by which the land hath been polluted; ²⁸ that the land may not become a mortal enemy to you when you pollute it; as it hath been to those nations which were before you. ²⁹ For whoever shall commit any of these abominations, the persons who shall commit them shall be cut off from among their people ³⁰ Therefore you shall keep my ordinances that you may not practise any of these abominable customs, which were practised before you. You shall not pollute yourselves with them; for I the Lord am your God.

⁹ For from the top of mountains I can see him; Even from hills I can observe him, Behold he shall dwell, as a people by themselves, And shall not be reckoned among the nations.

¹ While Israel abode at Sattin, the people profaned themselves to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab, ² who invited them to the sacrifices of their idols; and the people ate of their sacrifices, and worshipped their idols, ³ and Israel consecrated himself to Belphegor. Whereupon the wrath of the Lord was kindled against Israel;

³⁰ take heed to thyself that thou seek not to follow them after they are driven out from before thee, saying, How did these nations sacrifice to their gods? I will sacrifice in like manner. ³¹ Thou shalt not do so to thy God; for they sacrificed to their gods the abominations of the Lord, which he hated; for they burned their sons, and their daughters, with fire, to their gods.

⁹ When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

¹⁷ but, with an Anathema, thou shalt devote to destruction the Chettite and the Amorite, and the Chananite, and the Pherezite, and the Evite, and the Jebusite, and the Gergasite, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; ¹⁸ that they may not teach you all their abominations which they have performed to their gods; and that you may not sin before the Lord your God:

³ An Amorite, and a Moabite, shall not come into the congregation of the Lord: even to the tenth generation, they shall not come into the congregation of the Lord; nay; even for ever; ⁴ because they did not meet you with bread and water on the way, when you were coming out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee, Balaam, son of Beor, of Mesopotamia, to curse thee; ⁵ but the Lord thy God would not hearken to Balaam. Nay, the Lord thy God turned the curses into a blessing, because the Lord thy God loved thee.

¹ Now king Solomon was immoderately fond of women. He had seven hundred wives, princesses; and three hundred concubines; and he took for wives strange women besides Pharao's daughter, women of Moab and Ammon, Syrians, Idumeans, Chettites and Amorites.

⁵ [Omitted] ⁶ [Omitted] ⁷ then Solomon built high places for Chamos the idol of Moab, and for their king the idol of the Ammonites, and for Astarte the abomination of the Sidonians:

² and did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all the abominable acts of the nations which the Lord had rooted out from before the children of Israel.

²¹ So the children of Israel who were of the captivity, and every one who had separated himself from the impurity of the nations of the land and had come to them to seek the Lord God of Israel, ate the passover, ²² and kept the festival of unleavened bread seven days, with joy; for the Lord had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assur to them, to strengthen their hands in the works of the house of the God of Israel.

⁸ and that whoever did not come within three days, according to the order of the chiefs and the elders, all his substance should be anathematised, and he himself should be excommunicated from the congregation of the captivity.

¹⁰ And Esdras the priest arose, and said to them, You have broken covenant and taken strange wives to add to the transgression of Israel; ¹¹ now therefore, give praise to the Lord God of our fathers, and do what is well-pleasing in his sight, and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from your strange wives.

³ Thereupon Tobias the Ammonite came near him and said to them, Can they either sacrifice or eat in that place of theirs? Cannot a fox go up and demolish their stone walls?

⁷ But when Sanaballat and Tobias, and the Arabs and the Ammonites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem advanced in height, and that the breaches began to be stopped, it appeared to them very vexatious,

² and having separated themselves from every stranger, they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

¹ On reading that day in the book of Moses in the audience of the people, it was found written therein, that the Ammonites and the Moabites should not enter into the congregation of God forever; ² because they did not meet the Israelites with bread and water; but hired Balaam against them to curse them; but our God turned the curse into a blessing. ³ And when they heard the law, they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

³⁵ but mingled with those nations; and learned their works.

¹¹ [J] Depart, depart; come out thence, and touch no polluted thing. Come out from the midst of her; be clean, ye who carry the vessels of the Lord.

¹⁰ When the chiefs of Juda heard the affair, they went up from the king's house to the house of the Lord and sat down in the vestibule of the new gate.

¹⁶ Then the chiefs and all the people said to the priests and the false prophets, This man is not liable to death, for he hath spoken to us in the name of the Lord.

¹⁷ Behold thou art called a Jew, and thou restest on the law and gloriest in God, ¹⁸ and knowest his will, and triest things which differ, being instructed out of the law, ¹⁹ and hast a confidence that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light to them who are in darkness, ²⁰ an instructor of the ignorant, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth in the law. ²¹ Thou therefore who teachest another, dost thou not teach thyself? Thou who proclaimest not to steal, dost thou steal? ²² Thou who sayest, Commit not adultery', dost thou commit adultery? Thou who abominatest idols, dost thou violate things sacred? ²³ Thou who gloriest in a law, dost thou by the breach of that law dishonour God? ²⁴ For as it is written, "On your account the name of God is blasphemed among the nations." ²⁵ For circumcision is indeed profitable if thou performest the law. But if thou art a transgressor of the law thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

¹⁴ Form no associations with unbelievers; for what fellowship is there between righteousness and unrighteousness? What communion hath light with darkness? ¹⁵ What concord hath Christ with Belial? or what portion hath a believer with an unbeliever? ¹⁶ And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God hath said, "Because I will dwell among them and walk about among them, and will be their God, and they shall be my people; ¹⁷ therefore come out from among them and separate yourselves, saith the Lord, and touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you, ¹⁸ and be to you a father, and you shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."