BLB Ezr 9

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Ezr 9:1 — Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, [doing] according to their abominations, [even] of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

the princes		Ezr 10:8; Jer 26:10,16
have not separated		Ezr 6:21,22; Ezr 10:10,11; Exd 33:16; Num 23:9; Neh 9:2; Neh 13:3; Isa 52:11; 2Cr 6:14-18
doing according		Lev 18:3,24-30; Deu 12:30,31; Deu 18:9; 2Ch 33:2; Psa 106:35; Rom 2:17-25
of the Canaanites		Gen 15:16,19-21; Exd 23:23; Deu 20:17,18
Ammonites		Deu 23:3-5; 1Ki 11:1,5-7; Neh 4:3,7; Neh 13:1-3
Moabites		Num 25:1-3

Correlating Passages

the princes

	Ezr 10:8	And that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited, and himself separated from the congregation of those that had been carried away.
	Jer 26:10	When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house unto the house of the LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate of the LORD'S [house].
	Jer 26:16	Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man [is] not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.

have not separated

	Ezr 6:21	And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel, did eat,
	Ezr 6:22	And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.
	Ezr 10:10	And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.
	Ezr 10:11	Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land, and from the strange wives.
	Exd 33:16	For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? [is it] not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that [are] upon the face of the earth.
	Num 23:9	For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
	Neh 9:2	And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
	Neh 13:3	Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
	Isa 52:11	Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean [thing]; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
	2Cr 6:14	Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
	2Cr 6:15	And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
	2Cr 6:16	And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
	2Cr 6:17	Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you,
	2Cr 6:18	And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

doing according

	Lev 18:3	After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances.
	Lev 18:24	Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
	Lev 18:25	And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
	Lev 18:26	Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit [any] of these abominations; [neither] any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
	Lev 18:27	(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which [were] before you, and the land is defiled;)
	Lev 18:28	That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that [were] before you.
	Lev 18:29	For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit [them] shall be cut off from among their people.
	Lev 18:30	Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that [ye] commit not [any one] of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I [am] the LORD your God.
	Deu 12:30	Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.
	Deu 12:31	Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
	Deu 18:9	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.
	2Ch 33:2	But did [that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
	Psa 106:35	But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
	Rom 2:17	Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
	Rom 2:18	And knowest [his] will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;
	Rom 2:19	And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
	Rom 2:20	An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
	Rom 2:21	Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
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of the Canaanites

	Gen 15:16	But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites [is] not yet full.
	Gen 15:19	The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites,
	Gen 15:20	And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,
	Gen 15:21	And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
	Exd 23:23	For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
	Deu 20:17	But thou shalt utterly destroy them; [namely], the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:
	Deu 20:18	That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.

Ammonites

	Deu 23:3	An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the LORD for ever:
	Deu 23:4	Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
	Deu 23:5	Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.
	1Ki 11:1	But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, [and] Hittites;
	1Ki 11:5	For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
	1Ki 11:6	And Solomon did evil in the sight of the LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as [did] David his father.
	1Ki 11:7	Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that [is] before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
	Neh 4:3	Now Tobiah the Ammonite [was] by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.
	Neh 4:7	But it came to pass, [that] when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, [and] that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,
	Neh 13:1	On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;
	Neh 13:2	Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
	Neh 13:3	Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

Moabites

	Num 25:1	And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
	Num 25:2	And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.