Genesis 18:19
18:19 I have chosen him
so that he may command his children and his household after him to keep
the way of the
Lord by doing
what is right and just. Then the
Lord will give
to Abraham what he promised
him.”
Ezra 2:62
2:62 They
searched for their records in the genealogical materials, but did not find them.
They were therefore excluded
from the priesthood.
Ezra 9:2
9:2 Indeed, they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race
has become intermingled with the local residents. Worse still, the leaders and the officials have been at the forefront of all of this!”
Nehemiah 13:23-29
13:23 Also in those days I saw the men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
13:24 Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod (or the language of one of the other peoples mentioned) and were unable to speak the language of Judah.
13:25 So I entered a complaint with them. I called down a curse on them, and I struck some of the men and pulled out their hair. I had them swear by God saying, “You will not marry off your daughters to their sons, and you will not take any of their daughters as wives for your sons or for yourselves!
13:26 Was it not because of things like these that King Solomon of Israel sinned? Among the many nations there was no king like him. He was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. But the foreign wives made even him sin!
13:27 Should we then in your case hear that you do all this great evil, thereby being unfaithful to our God by marrying foreign wives?”
13:28 Now one of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest was a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite. So I banished him from my sight.
13:29 Please remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, the covenant of the priesthood, and the Levites.
Malachi 2:11
2:11 Judah has become disloyal, and unspeakable sins have been committed in Israel and Jerusalem.
For Judah has profaned
the holy things that the
Lord loves and has turned to a foreign god!
Malachi 2:15
2:15 No one who has even a small portion of the Spirit in him does this.
What did our ancestor
do when seeking a child from God? Be attentive, then, to your own spirit, for one should not be disloyal to the wife he took in his youth.
Romans 11:16
11:16 If the first portion
of the dough offered is holy, then the whole batch is holy, and if the root is holy, so too are the branches.
Romans 11:1
Israel’s Rejection not Complete nor Final
11:1 So I ask, God has not rejected his people, has he? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
Colossians 1:14
1:14 in whom we have redemption,
the forgiveness of sins.