Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
defiled
Genesis 3:17, 18
And to Adam He said: "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree from which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. . . .
Genesis 6:11-13
Now the earth was corrupt in the sight of God, and full of violence. . . .
Leviticus 18:24-28
Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves. . . .
Leviticus 20:22
You are therefore to keep all My statutes and ordinances, so that the land where I am bringing you to live will not vomit you out.
Numbers 35:33, 34
Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it. . . .
2 Chronicles 33:9
So Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem astray, so that they did greater evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
Psalm 106:36-39
They worshiped their idols, which became a snare to them. . . .
Jeremiah 3:1, 2
"If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers--and you would return to Me?" declares the LORD. . . .
Ezekiel 7:20-24
His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them. . . .
Ezekiel 22:24-31
"Son of man, say to her, 'In the day of indignation, you are a land that has not been cleansed, upon which no rain has fallen.' . . .
Micah 2:10
Arise and depart, for this is not your place of rest, because its defilement brings destruction--a grievous destruction!
Romans 8:20, 21
For the creation was subjected to futility, not by its own will, but because of the One who subjected it, in hope . . .
because
Isaiah 1:2-5
Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: "I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me. . . .
Isaiah 50:1
This is what the LORD says: "Where is your mother's certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
Isaiah 59:1-3, 12-15
Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor His ear too dull to hear. . . .
Deuteronomy 32:15, 20
But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked--becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation. . . .
2 Kings 17:7-23
All this happened because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. They had worshiped other gods, . . .
2 Kings 22:13-17
"Go and inquire of the LORD for me, for the people, and for all Judah concerning the words in this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book by doing all that is written about us." . . .
2 Kings 23:26, 27
Nevertheless, the LORD did not turn away from the fury of His burning anger, which was kindled against Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to provoke Him to anger. . . .
Ezra 9:6, 7
and said: "O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens. . . .
Ezekiel 20:13, 24
Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances--though the man who does these things will live by them--and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness. . . .
Daniel 9:5, 10
we have sinned and done wrong. We have acted wickedly and rebelled. We have turned away from Your commandments and ordinances. . . .
changed
Joshua 24:25
On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance.
Daniel 7:25
He will speak out against the Most High and oppress the saints of the Most High, intending to change the set times and laws, and the saints will be given into his hand for a time, and times, and half a time.
Mark 7:7-9
They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.' . . .
Luke 1:6
They were both righteous in the sight of God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and decrees of the Lord.
Hebrews 9:1
Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and an earthly sanctuary.
broken
Psalm 55:5
Fear and trembling grip me, and horror has overwhelmed me.
Genesis 17:13, 14
Whether they are born in your household or purchased, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh will be an everlasting covenant. . . .
2 Samuel 23:5
Is not my house right with God? For He has established with me an everlasting covenant, ordered and secured in every part. Will He not bring about my full salvation and my every desire?
Psalm 105:10
He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant:
Jeremiah 50:5
They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.
Ezekiel 37:26
And I will make a covenant of peace with them; it will be an everlasting covenant. I will establish and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary among them forever.
Hebrews 13:20
Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great Shepherd of the sheep,