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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 done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing 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: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass. (Ezra 9:1‑2)

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Lev. 18:24‑30• ²⁴Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
²⁵And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
²⁶Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
²⁷(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
²⁸That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it spued out the nations that were before you.
²⁹For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
³⁰Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God. (Lev. 18:24‑30)

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

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

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Ezek. 22:11• ¹¹And one hath committed abomination with his neighbor'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 the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)

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Ex. 19:5‑6• ⁵Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
⁶And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel. (Ex. 19:5‑6)

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Lev. 20:26• ²⁶And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the Lord am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine. (Lev. 20:26)

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Deut. 7:3‑6• ³Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
⁴For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
⁵But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
⁶For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. (Deut. 7:3‑6)

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Deut. 14:2• ²For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God, and the Lord hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon 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 heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
²⁷The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.
²⁸Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.
²⁹Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places. (Deut. 33:26‑29)

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Psa. 106:28,34‑39• ²⁸They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
³⁴They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the Lord commanded them:
³⁵But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
³⁶And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them.
³⁷Yea, they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils,
³⁸And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
³⁹Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions. (Psa. 106:28,34‑39)

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Jer. 2:3,7‑8,21‑22• ³Israel was holiness unto the Lord, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord.
⁷And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.
⁸The priests said not, Where is the Lord? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.
²¹Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
²²For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God. (Jer. 2:3,7‑8,21‑22)

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

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Judg. 3:6• ⁶And they took their daughters to be their 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 strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
²Of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
³And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
⁴For 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 the Lord his God, as was the heart of David his father.
⁵For 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 the Lord, and went not fully after the Lord, as did David his father.
⁷Then did Solomon build an high place for Chemosh, the abomination of Moab, in the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech, the abomination of the children of Ammon.
⁸And likewise did he for all his strange wives, which burnt incense and sacrificed unto their gods. (1 Kings 11:1‑8)

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Ezra 9:1‑2,12• ¹Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing 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: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
¹²Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth 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, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing. (Ezra 10:2)

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Neh. 13:23‑29• ²³In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:
²⁴And their children spake half in the speech 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 made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.
²⁶Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.
²⁷Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to transgress against our God in marrying strange wives?
²⁸And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.
²⁹Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites. (Neh. 13:23‑29)

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

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2 Cor. 6:14‑18• ¹⁴Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
¹⁵And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?
¹⁶And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
¹⁷Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,
¹⁸And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my 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."