Ezra 9:11
Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.
Cross-reference
In Ezra 9:1, the officials report Israel's failure to separate from the nations' abominations, directly reflecting the pollution cited in Ezra 9:11.
Ezra 6:21 describes those who separated from unclean Gentile practices, echoing the call to avoid the land's pollution in Ezra 9:11.
Leviticus 18:24-30 gives the original law that the land becomes defiled by abominations, the basis for the prophets' warning in Ezra 9:11.
Deuteronomy 18:12 links abominable practices to the LORD driving out nations, directly connecting to the land's defilement in Ezra 9:11.
2 Corinthians 6:14 echoes the same separation principle: believers must not be unequally yoked with unbelievers, paralleling the command against mixing with polluted nations.
In Judges 3:6, intermarriage leads to serving foreign gods — the exact sin Ezra confesses that polluted the land.
In Nehemiah 13:23, men of Judah married foreign women — the same intermarriage problem that defiled the land in Ezra.
Joshua 23:12 warns against intermarriage with pagans, which leads to the same defilement that Ezra 9:11 cites as the land's pollution.
Ezekiel 36:25-27 promises cleansing from impurities, offering hope of purification from the defilement described in Ezra 9:11.
Deuteronomy 12:31 lists detestable practices like child sacrifice that defile the land, expanding on the abominations noted in Ezra 9:11.
In Malachi 2:10, unfaithfulness profanes the covenant — likely referring to intermarriage, the same covenant-breaking sin Ezra addresses.
2 Chronicles 33:2 shows Manasseh following the same detestable practices of the nations that defiled the land in Ezra 9:11.
In 2 Kings 21:9, Manasseh leads Israel to do more evil than the nations God destroyed — echoing the warning about becoming like the land's former inhabitants.
In 1 Kings 21:26, Ahab's detestable acts mirror the Amorites' sins — the same 'detestable practices' that polluted the land in Ezra.
In Joshua 24:14, Joshua commands the people to throw away foreign gods — the same call to abandon idolatrous practices that defiled the land.
In Daniel 9:10, Daniel confesses not obeying the laws given through prophets — the same failure to heed the prophetic command Ezra recalls.
2 Corinthians 7:1 urges purification from contamination, a NT application of the principle behind the land's uncleanness in Ezra 9:11.