Ezekiel 36:17 Cross References

Ezekiel 36:17

17: "Son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own land, they defiled it by their evil deeds. To me their conduct was as filthy as a bloody rag.

Jeremiah 2:7

  1. "And when I brought you into a fruitful land to enjoy its bounty and goodness, you defiled my land and corrupted the inheritance I had promised you.

Isaiah 64:6

  1. We are all infected and impure with sin. When we proudly display our righteous deeds, we find they are but filthy rags. Like autumn leaves, we wither and fall. And our sins, like the wind, sweep us away.

Jeremiah 16:18

  1. I will punish them doubly for all their sins, because they have defiled my land with lifeless images of their detestable gods and filled my inheritance with their evil deeds."

Jeremiah 3:1

  1. "If a man divorces a woman and she marries someone else, he is not to take her back again, for that would surely corrupt the land. But you have prostituted yourself with many lovers, says the LORD. Yet I am still calling you to come back to me.
  2. "Look all around you. Is there anywhere in the entire land where you have not been defiled by your adulteries? You sit like a prostitute beside the road waiting for a client. You sit alone like a nomad in the desert. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

Leviticus 15:19

  1. "Whenever a woman has her menstrual period, she will be ceremonially unclean for seven days. If you touch her during that time, you will be defiled until evening.
  2. Anything on which she lies or sits during that time will be defiled.
  3. If you touch her bed, you must wash your clothes and bathe in water, and you will remain defiled until evening.
  4. The same applies if you touch an object on which she sits,
  5. whether it is her bedding or any piece of furniture.

Psalms 106:37

  1. They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons.
  2. They shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters. By sacrificing them to the idols of Canaan, they polluted the land with murder.

Numbers 35:33

  1. This will ensure that the land where you live will not be polluted, for murder pollutes the land. And no atonement can be made for murder except by the execution of the murderer.
  2. You must not defile the land where you are going to live, for I live there myself. I am the LORD, who lives among the people of Israel.'"

Isaiah 24:5

  1. The earth suffers for the sins of its people, for they have twisted the instructions of God, violated his laws, and broken his everlasting covenant.

Micah 2:10

  1. Up! Begone! This is no longer your land and home, for you have filled it with sin and ruined it completely.

Leviticus 18:24

  1. "Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, because this is how the people I am expelling from the Promised Land have defiled themselves.
  2. As a result, the entire land has become defiled. That is why I am punishing the people who live there, and the land will soon vomit them out.
  3. You must strictly obey all of my laws and regulations, and you must not do any of these detestable things. This applies both to you who are Israelites by birth and to the foreigners living among you.
  4. "All these detestable activities are practiced by the people of the land where I am taking you, and the land has become defiled.
  5. Do not give the land a reason to vomit you out for defiling it, as it will vomit out the people who live there now.

Jeremiah 3:9

  1. Israel treated it all so lightly--she thought nothing of committing adultery by worshiping idols made of wood and stone. So now the land has been greatly defiled.
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