Malachi 2:11

Judah has acted treacherously by profaning God's holiness and marrying women devoted to foreign gods.

Cross-references · 25

• 2 Cor 6:14–18Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership can righteousness have with wickedness? Or what fellowship does light have with darkness?
• Ezra 9:1–2After these things had been accomplished, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, including the priests and Levites, have not kept themselves separate from the surrounding peoples whose abominations are like those of the Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, and Amorites.
• Exod 19:5–6Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
• Ps 106:34–39They did not destroy the peoples as the LORD had commanded them,
• 1 Kgs 11:1–8King Solomon, however, loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh—women of Moab, Ammon, Edom, and Sidon, as well as Hittite women.
• Lev 20:26You are to be holy to Me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be My own.
• Neh 13:23–29In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
• Rev 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
• Deut 7:3–6Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
• Jer 2:7–8I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land, and made My inheritance detestable.
• Hos 6:7But they, like Adam, have transgressed the covenant; there they were unfaithful to Me.
• Ezek 18:13He engages in usury and takes excess interest. Will this son live? He will not! Since he has committed all these abominations, he will surely die; his blood will be on his own head.
• Deut 14:2for you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD has chosen you to be a people for His prized possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.
• Lev 18:24–30Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves.
• Ezra 10:2Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, an Elamite, said to Ezra: “We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign women from the people of the land, yet in spite of this, there is hope for Israel.
• Jer 2:3Israel was holy to the LORD, the firstfruits of His harvest. All who devoured her found themselves guilty; disaster came upon them,’” declares the LORD.
• Jer 3:7–9I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.
• Ezra 9:12Now, therefore, do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters for your sons. Never seek their peace or prosperity, so that you may be strong and may eat the good things of the land, leaving it as an inheritance to your sons forever.’
• Judg 3:6And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
• Deut 33:26–29“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.
• Ps 106:28They yoked themselves to Baal of Peor and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.
• Gen 6:1–2Now when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them,
• Jer 2:21–22I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?
• Jer 7:10and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?
• Ezek 22:11One man commits an abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another wickedly defiles his daughter-in-law; and yet another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.

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