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Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he δlovedi, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

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Ezra 9:1‑2• ¹Now when these things were completed, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites;
²for they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, and have mingled the holy seed with the peoples of the lands; and the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this unfaithfulness. (Ezra 9:1‑2)

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Lev. 18:24‑30• ²⁴Make not yourselves unclean in any of these things; for in all these have the nations which I am casting out before you made themselves unclean.
²⁵And the land hath become unclean; and I visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants.
²⁶But *ye* shall observe my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of all these abominations: the home-born, and the stranger that sojourneth among you;
²⁷(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, who were before you, and the land hath been made unclean);
²⁸that the land vomit you not out, when ye make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
²⁹For whoever committeth any of these abominations, … the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
³⁰And ye shall observe my charge, that ye commit not any of the abominable customs which were committed before you; and ye shall not make yourselves unclean therein: I am Jehovah your God. (Lev. 18:24‑30)

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Jer. 7:10• ¹⁰then ye come and stand before me, in this house which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered,--in order to do all these abominations! (Jer. 7:10)

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Ezek. 18:13• ¹³given forth upon usury, and taken increase; shall he then live? He shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall certainly die; his blood shall be upon him. (Ezek. 18:13)

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Ezek. 22:11• ¹¹And one hath committed abomination with his neighbour's wife; and another hath lewdly defiled his daughter-in-law; and another in thee hath humbled his sister, his father's daughter. (Ezek. 22:11)

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Rev. 21:8• ⁸But to the fearful and unbelieving, and sinners, and those who make themselves abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)

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Ex. 19:5‑6• ⁵And now, if ye will hearken to my voice indeed and keep my covenant, then shall ye be my own possession out of all the peoples--for all the earth is mine--
⁶and ye shall be to me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak to the children of Israel. (Ex. 19:5‑6)

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Lev. 20:26• ²⁶And ye shall be holy unto me; for I Jehovah am holy, and have separated you from the peoples to be mine. (Lev. 20:26)

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Deut. 7:3‑6• ³And thou shalt make no marriages with them: thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor take his daughter for thy son;
⁴for he will turn away thy son from following me, and they will serve other gods, and the anger of Jehovah will be kindled against you, and he will destroy thee quickly.
⁵But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and shatter their statues, and hew down their Asherahs, and burn their graven images with fire.
⁶For a holy people art thou unto Jehovah thy God: Jehovah thy God hath chosen thee to be unto him a people for a possession, above all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth. (Deut. 7:3‑6)

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Deut. 14:2• ²For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, and thee hath Jehovah chosen for a people of possession unto himself, out of all the peoples that are upon the face of the earth. (Deut. 14:2)

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Deut. 33:26‑29• ²⁶There is none like unto the *God of Jeshurun, Who rideth upon the heavens to thy help, And in his majesty, upon the clouds.
²⁷Thy refuge is the God of old, And underneath are the eternal arms; And he shall drive out the enemy from before thee, And shall say, Destroy them!
²⁸And Israel shall dwell in safety alone, The fountain of Jacob, in a land of corn and new wine; Also his heavens shall drop down dew.
²⁹Happy art thou, Israel! Who is like unto thee, a people saved by Jehovah, The shield of thy help, And the sword of thine excellency? And thine enemies shall come cringing to thee; And thou shalt tread upon their high places. (Deut. 33:26‑29)

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Psa. 106:28,34‑39• ²⁸And they joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead;
³⁴They did not destroy the peoples, as Jehovah commanded them;
³⁵But they mingled with the nations, and learned their works;
³⁶And they served their idols; and they were a snare unto them:
³⁷And they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto demons,
³⁸And shed innocent blood, the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with blood.
³⁹And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings. (Psa. 106:28,34‑39)

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Jer. 2:3,7‑8,21‑22• ³Israel was holiness unto Jehovah, the first-fruits of his increase: all that devour him are guilty; evil shall come upon them, saith Jehovah.
⁷And I brought you into a fruitful land, to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof; and ye entered and defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
⁸The priests said not, Where is Jehovah? and they that handled the law knew me not; and the shepherds transgressed against me; and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
²¹And I,--I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed; how then art thou turned into the degenerate shoots of a strange vine unto me?
²²For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much potash, thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Jer. 2:3,7‑8,21‑22)

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Gen. 6:1‑2• ¹And it came to pass when mankind began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to them,
²that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair, and took themselves wives of all that they chose. (Gen. 6:1‑2)

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Judg. 3:6• ⁶and they took their daughters as wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods. (Judg. 3:6)

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1 Kings 11:1‑8• ¹But king Solomon loved many foreign women, besides the daughter of Pharaoh: women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, Hittites;
²of the nations of which Jehovah had said to the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in to you; they would certainly turn away your heart after their gods: to these Solomon was attached in love.
³And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.
⁴And it came to pass when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father.
⁵And Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
⁶And Solomon did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and followed not fully Jehovah, as David his father.
⁷Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, on the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.
⁸And so he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods. (1 Kings 11:1‑8)

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Ezra 9:1‑2,12• ¹Now when these things were completed, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites;
²for they have taken of their daughters for themselves and for their sons, and have mingled the holy seed with the peoples of the lands; and the hand of the princes and rulers has been chief in this unfaithfulness.
¹²Now therefore give not your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters to your sons, nor seek their peace or their prosperity for ever; that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever. (Ezra 9:1‑2,12)

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Ezra 10:2• ²And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, We have acted unfaithfully toward our God, and have taken foreign wives of the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing. (Ezra 10:2)

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Neh. 13:23‑29• ²³In those days also I saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab.
²⁴And their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and could not speak in the Jews' language, but according to the language of each people.
²⁵And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them and plucked off their hair, and adjured them by God saying, Ye shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
²⁶Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among the many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; but even him did foreign wives cause to sin.
²⁷And should we hearken to you to do all this great evil, to act unfaithfully to our God by marrying foreign wives?
²⁸And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite; and I chased him from me.
²⁹Remember them, my God, for they are polluters of the priesthood, and of the covenant of the priesthood and of the Levites! (Neh. 13:23‑29)

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Hos. 6:7• ⁷But they like Adam have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. (Hos. 6:7)

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2 Cor. 6:14‑18• ¹⁴Be not diversely yoked with unbelievers; for what participation is there between righteousness and lawlessness? or what fellowship of light with darkness?
¹⁵and what consent of Christ with Beliar, or what part for a believer along with an unbeliever?
¹⁶and what agreement of God's temple with idols? for *ye* are the living God's temple; according as God has said, I will dwell among them, and walk among them; and I will be their God, and they shall be to me a people.
¹⁷Wherefore come out from the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and touch not what is unclean, and *I* will receive you;
¹⁸and I will be to you for a Father, and ye shall be to me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. (2 Cor. 6:14‑18)

• There are four terms employed in this passage to indicate this grievous form of the iniquity of God’s people: dealing treacherously (not, as in the preceding verse, with their brethren, but with God—compare Jer. 3:6-10), committing abomination—a frequent expression in the Scriptures for idolatry (see Jer. 4:1; Dan. 9:27; Matt. 24:15), profaning the holiness of the Lord which he had loved, and marrying the daughter of a strange god (vs. 11). (“Malachi 2” by E. Dennett)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Judah hath dealt unfaithfully, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the sanctuaryg of Jehovah which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange *god.

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Elsewhere "holy place" or "holy thing."