Discovery Box2 Chronicles 28:3
Context28:3 He offered sacrifices in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom and passed his sons through the fire, 1 a horrible sin practiced by the nations 2 whom the Lord drove out before the Israelites.
2 Chronicles 36:14
Context36:14 All the leaders of the priests and people became more unfaithful and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations. 3 They defiled the Lord’s temple which he had consecrated in Jerusalem.
Leviticus 18:24-30
Context18:24 “‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you 4 have been defiled with all these things. 18:25 Therefore 5 the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, 6 so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants. 18:26 You yourselves must obey 7 my statutes and my regulations and must not do any of these abominations, both the native citizen and the resident foreigner in your midst, 8 18:27 for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, 9 and the land has become unclean. 18:28 So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it 10 just as it has vomited out the nations 11 that were before you. 18:29 For if anyone does any of these abominations, the persons who do them will be cut off from the midst of their people. 12 18:30 You must obey my charge to not practice any of the abominable statutes 13 that have been done before you, so that you do not 14 defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.’”
Leviticus 20:22-23
Context20:22 “‘You must be sure to obey all my statutes and regulations, 15 so that 16 the land to which I am about to bring you to take up residence there does not vomit you out. 20:23 You must not walk in the statutes of the nation 17 which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them.
Deuteronomy 12:31
Context12:31 You must not worship the Lord your God the way they do! 18 For everything that is abhorrent 19 to him, 20 everything he hates, they have done when worshiping their gods. They even burn up their sons and daughters before their gods!
Deuteronomy 18:9
Context18:9 When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.
Deuteronomy 18:14
Context18:14 Those nations that you are about to dispossess listen to omen readers and diviners, but the Lord your God has not given you permission to do such things.
Deuteronomy 18:2
Context18:2 They 21 will have no inheritance in the midst of their fellow Israelites; 22 the Lord alone is their inheritance, just as he had told them.
Deuteronomy 17:11
Context17:11 You must do what you are instructed, and the verdict they pronounce to you, without fail. Do not deviate right or left from what they tell you.
Deuteronomy 17:15
Context17:15 you must select without fail 23 a king whom the Lord your God chooses. From among your fellow citizens 24 you must appoint a king – you may not designate a foreigner who is not one of your fellow Israelites. 25
Deuteronomy 21:2
Context21:2 your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse. 26
Deuteronomy 21:9
Context21:9 In this manner you will purge out the guilt of innocent blood from among you, for you must do what is right before 27 the Lord.
Ezra 9:14
Context9:14 Shall we once again break your commandments and intermarry with these abominable peoples? Would you not be so angered by us that you would wipe us out, with no survivor or remnant?
Psalms 106:35-40
Context106:35 They mixed in with the nations
and learned their ways. 28
106:36 They worshiped 29 their idols,
which became a snare to them. 30
106:37 They sacrificed their sons and daughters to demons. 31
106:38 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. 32
106:39 They were defiled by their deeds,
and unfaithful in their actions. 33
106:40 So the Lord was angry with his people 34
and despised the people who belong to him. 35
Ezekiel 11:12
Context11:12 Then you will know that I am the Lord, whose statutes you have not followed and whose regulations you have not carried out. Instead you have behaved according to the regulations of the nations around you!’”
[28:3] 1 sn This may refer to child sacrifice, though some interpret it as a less drastic cultic practice (NEB “burnt his sons in the fire”; NASB “burned his sons in the fire”; NIV “sacrificed his sons in the fire”; NRSV “made his sons pass through fire”). For discussion see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 266-67.
[28:3] 2 tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”
[36:14] 3 tn Heb “like the abominable practices of the nations.”
[18:24] 4 tn Heb “which I am sending away (Piel participle of שָׁלַח [shalakh, “to send”]) from your faces.” The rendering here takes the participle as anticipatory of the coming conquest events.
[18:25] 5 tn Heb “And.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative or even inferential force here.
[18:25] 6 tn Heb “and I have visited its [punishment for] iniquity on it.” See the note on Lev 17:16 above.
[18:26] 7 tn Heb “And you shall keep, you.” The latter emphatic personal pronoun “you” is left out of a few medieval Hebrew
[18:26] 8 tn Heb “the native and the sojourner”; NIV “The native-born and the aliens”; NAB “whether natives or resident aliens.”
[18:27] 9 tn Heb “for all these abominations the men of the land who were before you have done.”
[18:28] 10 tn Heb “And the land will not vomit you out in your defiling it.”
[18:28] 11 tc The MT reads the singular “nation” and is followed by ASV, NASB, NRSV; the LXX, Syriac, and Targum have the plural “nations” (cf. v. 24).
[18:29] 12 sn Regarding the “cut off” penalty see the note on Lev 7:20.
[18:30] 13 tn Heb “to not do from the statutes of the detestable acts.”
[18:30] 14 tn Heb “and you will not.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.
[20:22] 15 tn Heb “And you shall keep all my statutes and all my regulations and you shall do them.” This appears to be a kind of verbal hendiadys, where the first verb is a modifier of the action of the second verb (see GKC 386 §120.d, although שָׁמַר [shamar, “to keep”] is not cited there; cf. Lev 22:31, etc.).
[20:22] 16 tn Heb “and.” The Hebrew conjunction ו (vav, “and”) can be considered to have resultative force here.
[20:23] 17 tc One medieval Hebrew
[12:31] 18 tn Heb “you must not do thus to/for the
[12:31] 19 tn See note on this term at Deut 7:25.
[12:31] 20 tn Heb “every abomination of the
[18:2] 21 tn Heb “he” (and throughout the verse).
[18:2] 22 tn Heb “brothers,” but not referring to actual siblings. Cf. NASB “their countrymen”; NRSV “the other members of the community.”
[17:15] 23 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, indicated in the translation by the words “without fail.”
[17:15] 24 tn Heb “your brothers,” but not referring to siblings (cf. NIV “your brother Israelites”; NLT “a fellow Israelite”). The same phrase also occurs in v. 20.
[17:15] 25 tn Heb “your brothers.” See the preceding note on “fellow citizens.”
[21:2] 26 tn Heb “surrounding the slain [one].”
[21:9] 27 tn Heb “in the eyes of” (so ASV, NASB, NIV).
[106:35] 28 tn Heb “their deeds.”
[106:36] 30 sn Became a snare. See Exod 23:33; Judg 2:3.
[106:37] 31 tn The Hebrew term שֵׁדִים (shedim, “demons”) occurs only here and in Deut 32:17. Some type of lesser deity is probably in view.
[106:38] 32 sn Num 35:33-34 explains that bloodshed defiles a land.
[106:39] 33 tn Heb “and they committed adultery in their actions.” This means that they were unfaithful to the
[106:40] 34 tn Heb “the anger of the
