Ezekiel 36:17
Son of man, when the children of Israel were living in their land, they made it unclean by their way and their acts: their way before me was as when a woman is unclean at the time when she is kept separate.
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16Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Cross References
Leviticus 18:24Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:
Numbers 35:33So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.
Psalms 106:39So they became unclean through their works, going after their evil desires.
Jeremiah 3:1They say, If a man puts away his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man's, will he go back to her again? will not that land have been made unclean? but though you have been acting like a loose woman with a number of lovers, will you now come back to me? says the Lord.
Jeremiah 16:18And I will give them the reward of their evil-doing and their sin twice over; because they have made my land unclean, and have made my heritage full of the bodies of their unholy and disgusting things.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 36:17-25
God's Compassion for Israel. ( b. c. 587.) 16 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 17 Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman. 18 Wherefore I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it: 19 And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according… Read the whole commentary →