Ezra 9:12 Cross References - BBE

¹² So now do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or do anything for their peace or well-being for ever; so that you may be strong, living on the good of the land, and handing it on to your children for a heritage for ever.

¹⁸ Seeing that Abraham will certainly become a great and strong nation, and his name will be used by all the nations of the earth as a blessing? ¹⁹ For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.

³² Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

¹⁵ So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts, ¹⁶ Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.

¹ Now these are the orders and the laws and the decisions which the Lord your God gave me for your teaching, so that you might do them in the land of your heritage to which you are going: ² So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.

³ Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.

⁶ Do nothing for their peace or well-being for ever.

⁶ Take heart and be strong; for you will give to this people for their heritage the land which I gave by an oath to their fathers. ⁷ Only take heart and be very strong; take care to do all the law which Moses my servant gave you, not turning from it to the right hand or to the left, so that you may do well in all your undertakings. ⁸ Let this book of the law be ever on your lips and in your thoughts day and night, so that you may keep with care everything in it; then a blessing will be on all your way, and you will do well. ⁹ Have I not given you your orders? Take heart and be strong; have no fear and do not be troubled; for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go,

¹² For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you: ¹³ Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

² And Jehu, the son of Hanani the seer, went to King Jehoshaphat and said to him, Is it right for you to go to the help of evil-doers, loving the haters of the Lord? because of this, the wrath of the Lord has come on you.

² For they have taken their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the peoples of the lands; and in fact the captains and rulers have been the first to do this evil.

¹ Let the Lord be praised. Happy is the man who gives honour to the Lord, and has great delight in his laws. ² His seed will be strong on the earth; blessings will be on the generation of the upright.

²² The heritage of the good man is handed down to his children's children; and the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the upright man.

⁷ An upright man goes on in his righteousness: happy are his children after him!

¹⁹ If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;

¹⁰ If anyone comes to you not having this teaching, do not take him into your house or give him words of love: ¹¹ For he who gives him words of love has a part in his evil works.