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Deuteronomy 8:7-9
For the LORD your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills,a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, of olive trees and honey,a land where you may eat food in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron and from whose hills you can mine copper.
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Jeremiah 16:18
Before I restore them I will punish them in full for their sins and the wrongs they have done. For they have polluted my land with the lifeless statues of their disgusting idols. They have filled the land I have claimed as my own with their detestable idols.”
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Psalms 106:38-39
They shed innocent blood– the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted by bloodshed.They were defiled by their deeds, and unfaithful in their actions.
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Numbers 13:27
They told Moses,“ We went to the land where you sent us. It is indeed flowing with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
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Psalms 78:58-59
They made him angry with their pagan shrines, and made him jealous with their idols.God heard and was angry; he completely rejected Israel.
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Micah 2:10
But you are the ones who will be forced to leave! For this land is not secure! Sin will thoroughly destroy it!
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Jeremiah 3:1
“ If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and becomes another man’s wife, he may not take her back again. Doing that would utterly defile the land. But you, Israel, have given yourself as a prostitute to many gods. So what makes you think you can return to me?” says the LORD.
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Deuteronomy 6:10-11
Then when the LORD your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you– a land with large, fine cities you did not build,houses filled with choice things you did not accumulate, hewn out cisterns you did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves you did not plant– and you eat your fill,
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Deuteronomy 11:10-12
For the land where you are headed is not like the land of Egypt from which you came, a land where you planted seed and which you irrigated by hand like a vegetable garden.Instead, the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy is one of hills and valleys, a land that drinks in water from the rains,a land the LORD your God looks after. He is constantly attentive to it from the beginning to the end of the year.
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Ezekiel 20:6
On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.
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Nehemiah 9:25
They captured fortified cities and fertile land. They took possession of houses full of all sorts of good things– wells previously dug, vineyards, olive trees, and fruit trees in abundance. They ate until they were full and grew fat. They enjoyed to the full your great goodness.
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Numbers 35:33-34
“ You must not pollute the land where you live, for blood defiles the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed there, except by the blood of the person who shed it.Therefore do not defile the land that you will inhabit, in which I live, for I the LORD live among the Israelites.”
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Leviticus 18:24-28
“‘ Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.Therefore the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants.You yourselves must obey my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst,for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.
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Jeremiah 3:9
Because she took her prostitution so lightly, she defiled the land through her adulterous worship of gods made of wood and stone.
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Ezekiel 36:17
“ Son of man, when the house of Israel was living on their own land, they defiled it by their behavior and their deeds. In my sight their behavior was like the uncleanness of a woman having her monthly period.
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Numbers 14:7-8
They said to the whole community of the Israelites,“ The land we passed through to investigate is an exceedingly good land.If the LORD delights in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us– a land that is flowing with milk and honey.
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Deuteronomy 6:18
Do whatever is proper and good before the LORD so that it may go well with you and that you may enter and occupy the good land that he promised your ancestors,
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Deuteronomy 21:23
his body must not remain all night on the tree; instead you must make certain you bury him that same day, for the one who is left exposed on a tree is cursed by God. You must not defile your land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.