Leviticus 18:27
(For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
Cross-references
Leviticus 18:24 states that the nations defiled themselves with these abominations, while verse 27 says the land's men did them—two sides of the same warning.
In Leviticus 18:30, the warning concludes with a command to keep God's charge and not defile yourselves by these customs.
In Leviticus 20:23, the same warning: do not walk in the customs of the nations God is driving out, because He detested them.
Deuteronomy 20:18 warns that the nations' abominations will teach Israel to sin, reinforcing Leviticus 18:27's reason for driving them out.
Deuteronomy 27:15 curses those who make idols as an abomination, directly linking to the idolatry that characterized the Canaanite nations.
1 Kings 14:24 explicitly mentions male cult prostitutes and the abominations of the nations driven out, directly referencing the same Canaanite practices.
2 Kings 16:3 describes child sacrifice as following the despicable practices of the nations driven out, a specific Canaanite abomination warned against here.
2 Kings 21:2 summarizes Manasseh's evil as mirroring the despicable practices of the nations driven out, exactly the abominations warned against in this verse.
2 Chronicles 36:14 describes priests and people following all the abominations of the nations, directly echoing the warning about Canaanite practices here.
Ezekiel 22:11 lists sexual abominations like incest and adultery, directly paralleling the forbidden relations outlined in Leviticus 18.
In Deuteronomy 18:9, Israel is warned not to learn the abominable practices of the nations when entering the land.
In Deuteronomy 18:12, the same logic: those practices are an abomination, and God drives out the nations because of them.
In 2 Kings 17:8, Israel is condemned for walking in the same customs of the nations God drove out, fulfilling the warning.
In Jeremiah 16:18, God will repay Israel for polluting the land with abominations, exactly the defilement warned about in Leviticus.
Ezekiel 16:50 cites Sodom's abominations, linking to the same divine judgment against detestable practices that the Canaanites also committed.
Hosea 9:10 recalls Israel's detestable idolatry at Baal-peor, mirroring the Canaanite abominations that made them loathsome to God.