Ezra 9:14 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁴ yet we have returned to break thy commandments, and to intermarry with the people of these regions. Be not provoked against us to our utter destruction, so that not a remnant may escape.

³² Thou shalt not make a treaty with them and their gods,

¹⁰ Now therefore let me alone, that being provoked to wrath against them I may utterly destroy them, and I will make thee a great nation.

²¹ Separate yourselves from among this congregation, and I will consume them all at once.

⁴⁵ Withdraw from among this congregation, and I will destroy them all at once.

⁸ At Choreb you provoked the Lord, so that the anger of the Lord was kindled against you, to destroy you utterly.

¹⁴ now therefore let me utterly destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make thee a nation, great and powerful, and much more numerous than this.

²⁶ I had determined to disperse them, And cause the remembrance of them to cease among men; ²⁷ Had it not been for the temper of enemies; That the adversaries might not out live them; That they might not fall upon them at once; Lest they should say, Our own high hand, And not the Lord, hath done all this.

² therefore you shall not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land, nor worship their gods; but you shall break to pieces their graven images, and demolish their altars. But you have not hearkened to my voice. Because you have done these things,

² For they have taken some of their daughters for themselves, and their sons; and the holy seed is mingled with the tribes of the neighbouring regions. And the hand of the chiefs is principally concerned in this transgression.

⁸ Now, though our God hath had compassion on us, so as to suffer a remnant of us to escape, and to give us a fixture in the place of his sanctuary, that he may enlighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage;

²³ In those days also I saw the Jews who had married wives of Azotus, of Ammon, and of Moab, ²⁴ and their children spoke half in the dialect of Azotus, and did not know how to speak the Jewish language; ²⁵ and I .quarrelled with them, and reproached them, and smote some men among them, and caused some of them to be shaved, and adjured them by God, saying, You shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take any of their daughters for your sons. ²⁶ Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by doing so? Though among many nations there was not a king like him? Though he was beloved by God, and God had made him king over all Israel, yet strange women led him astray. ²⁷ Let us not therefore hear of your committing all this iniquity, breaking covenant with our God, and marrying strange women.

⁹ Had not the Lord of Hosts left us a seed, we should have been as Sodom and made like Gomorra.

²⁸ Fear not, my servant Jacob, saith the Lord, since I am with thee. This fearless and luxurious one is delivered up, for I will make an end of every nation to which I have driven thee; But of thee I will not make an entire end. But I will correct thee for judgment and not suffer thee to go unpunished.

⁸ When some of you, who have escaped from the sword, are among the nations and in your dispersions through the countries;

¹⁴ After this Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said to him, Behold thou art made well. Sin no more, lest something worse befall thee.

¹ What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that favour may abound?

²⁰ For if alter fleeing from the pollutions of the world by an acknowledgment of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, any are again entangled and overcome by them, the last state of such persons is worse than the first. ²¹ For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn away from the holy commandment delivered to them.