Malachi 2:11 Cross References

Malachi 2:11

11: In Judah, in Israel, and in Jerusalem there is treachery, for the men of Judah have defiled the LORD's beloved sanctuary by marrying women who worship idols.

2 Corinthians 6:14

  1. Don't team up with those who are unbelievers. How can goodness be a partner with wickedness? How can light live with darkness?
  2. What harmony can there be between Christ and the Devil? How can a believer be a partner with an unbeliever?
  3. And what union can there be between God's temple and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God said: "I will live in them and walk among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people.
  4. Therefore, come out from them and separate yourselves from them, says the Lord. Don't touch their filthy things, and I will welcome you.
  5. And I will be your Father, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. "

Ezra 9:1

  1. But then the Jewish leaders came to me and said, "Many of the people of Israel, and even some of the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the other peoples living in the land. They have taken up the detestable practices of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
  2. For the men of Israel have married women from these people and have taken them as wives for their sons. So the holy race has become polluted by these mixed marriages. To make matters worse, the officials and leaders are some of the worst offenders."

Deuteronomy 33:26

  1. "There is no one like the God of Israel. He rides across the heavens to help you, across the skies in majestic splendor.
  2. The eternal God is your refuge, and his everlasting arms are under you. He thrusts out the enemy before you; it is he who cries, `Destroy them!'
  3. So Israel will live in safety, prosperous Jacob in security, in a land of grain and wine, while the heavens drop down dew.
  4. How blessed you are, O Israel! Who else is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is your protecting shield and your triumphant sword! Your enemies will bow low before you, and you will trample on their backs!"

1 Kings 11:1

  1. Now King Solomon loved many foreign women. Besides Pharaoh's daughter, he married women from Moab, Ammon, Edom, Sidon, and from among the Hittites.
  2. The LORD had clearly instructed his people not to intermarry with those nations, because the women they married would lead them to worship their gods. Yet Solomon insisted on loving them anyway.
  3. He had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. And sure enough, they led his heart away from the LORD.
  4. In Solomon's old age, they turned his heart to worship their gods instead of trusting only in the LORD his God, as his father, David, had done.
  5. Solomon worshiped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians, and Molech, the detestable god of the Ammonites.

Psalms 106:34

  1. Israel failed to destroy the nations in the land, as the LORD had told them to.
  2. Instead, they mingled among the pagans and adopted their evil customs.
  3. They worshiped their idols, and this led to their downfall.
  4. They even sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons.
  5. 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.

Jeremiah 7:10

  1. and then come here and stand before me in my Temple and chant, "We are safe!"--only to go right back to all those evils again?

Judges 3:6

  1. and they intermarried with them. Israelite sons married their daughters, and Israelite daughters were given in marriage to their sons. And the Israelites worshiped their gods.

Ezekiel 22:11

  1. Within your walls live men who commit adultery with their neighbors' wives, who defile their daughters-in-law or who rape their own sisters.

Leviticus 20:26

  1. You must be holy because I, the LORD, am holy. I have set you apart from all other people to be my very own.

Nehemiah 13:23

  1. About the same time I realized that some of the men of Judah had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
  2. Even worse, half their children spoke in the language of Ashdod or some other people and could not speak the language of Judah at all.
  3. So I confronted them and called down curses on them. I beat some of them and pulled out their hair. I made them swear before God that they would not let their children intermarry with the pagan people of the land.
  4. "Wasn't this exactly what led King Solomon of Israel into sin?" I demanded. "There was no king from any nation who could compare to him, and God loved him and made him king over all Israel. But even he was led into sin by his foreign wives.
  5. How could you even think of committing this sinful deed and acting unfaithfully toward God by marrying foreign women?"

Ezekiel 18:13

  1. and lends money at interest. Should such a sinful person live? No! He must die and must take full blame.

Psalms 106:28

  1. Then our ancestors joined in the worship of Baal at Peor; they even ate sacrifices offered to the dead!

Deuteronomy 7:3

  1. Do not intermarry with them, and don't let your daughters and sons marry their sons and daughters.
  2. They will lead your young people away from me to worship other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and he will destroy you.
  3. Instead, you must break down their pagan altars and shatter their sacred pillars. Cut down their Asherah poles and burn their idols.
  4. For you are a holy people, who belong to the LORD your God. Of all the people on earth, the LORD your God has chosen you to be his own special treasure.

Jeremiah 3:7

  1. I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me. But she did not come back. And though her faithless sister Judah saw this,
  2. she paid no attention. She saw that I had divorced faithless Israel and sent her away. But now Judah, too, has left me and given herself to prostitution.
  3. 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.

Revelation 21:8

  1. But cowards who turn away from me, and unbelievers, and the corrupt, and murderers, and the immoral, and those who practice witchcraft, and idol worshipers, and all liars--their doom is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death."

Jeremiah 2:3

  1. In those days Israel was holy to the LORD, the first of my children. All who harmed my people were considered guilty, and disaster fell upon them. I, the LORD, have spoken!'"

Ezra 10:2

  1. Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, a descendant of Elam, said to Ezra, "We confess that we have been unfaithful to our God, for we have married these pagan women of the land. But there is hope for Israel in spite of this.

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.
  2. The priests did not ask, `Where is the LORD?' The judges ignored me, the rulers turned against me, and the prophets spoke in the name of Baal, wasting their time on nonsense.

Jeremiah 2:21

  1. "How could this happen? When I planted you, I chose a vine of the purest stock--the very best. How did you grow into this corrupt wild vine?
  2. No amount of soap or lye can make you clean. You are stained with guilt that cannot be washed away. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken!

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.

Ezra 9:12

  1. You told us not to let our daughters marry their sons, and not to let our sons marry their daughters, and not to help those nations in any way. You promised that if we avoided these things, we would become a prosperous nation. You promised that we would enjoy the good produce of the land and leave this prosperity to our children as an inheritance forever.

Deuteronomy 14:2

  1. You have been set apart as holy to the LORD your God, and he has chosen you to be his own special treasure from all the nations of the earth.

Hosea 6:7

  1. "But like Adam, you broke my covenant and rebelled against me.

Exodus 19:5

  1. Now if you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own special treasure from among all the nations of the earth; for all the earth belongs to me.
  2. And you will be to me a kingdom of priests, my holy nation.' Give this message to the Israelites."

Genesis 6:1

  1. When the human population began to grow rapidly on the earth,
  2. the sons of God saw the beautiful women of the human race and took any they wanted as their wives.
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