Ezra 9:12 Cross References - ACV

¹² Now therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity forever, that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your sons forever.

¹⁸ since Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? ¹⁹ For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of LORD, to do righteousness and justice, to the end that LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoken of him.

³² Thou shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

¹⁵ Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and a man calls thee and thou eat of his sacrifice, ¹⁶ and thou take of their daughters to thy sons, and their daughters play the harlot after their gods, and make thy sons play the harlot after their gods.

¹ Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the ordinances, which LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land where ye go over to possess it, ² that thou might fear LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life, and that thy days may be prolonged.

³ Neither shall thou make marriages with them. Thy daughter thou shall not give to his son, nor his daughter shall thou take to thy son.

⁶ Thou shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days forever.

⁶ Be strong and of good courage, for thou shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. ⁷ Only be strong and very courageous to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee. Turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou may have good success wherever thou go. ⁸ This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shall meditate on it day and night, that thou may observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then thou shall make thy way prosperous, and then thou shall have good success. ⁹ Have I not commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage. Be not frightened, neither be thou dismayed, for LORD thy God is with thee wherever thou go.

¹² Else if ye do at all go back, and cling to the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you, ¹³ know for a certainty that LORD your God will no more drive these nations from out of your sight, but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, and a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which LORD your God has given you.

² And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Should thou help the wicked, and love those who hate LORD? For this thing wrath is upon thee from before LORD.

² For they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the peoples of the lands. Yea, the hand of the heads and rulers has been chief in this trespass.

¹ Praise ye LORD. Blessed is the man who fears LORD, who delights greatly in his commandments. ² His seed shall be mighty upon earth. The generation of the upright shall be blessed.

²² A good man leaves an inheritance to his son's sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

⁷ A righteous man who walks in his integrity, blessed are his sons after him.

¹⁹ If ye are willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land.

¹⁰ If any man comes to you, and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into a house, and do not speak to him to rejoice. ¹¹ For he who speaks to him to rejoice, partakes of his evil works.