Judah Profaned the Covenant
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p Have we not all one Father?
q Has not one God created us?
Why do we deal treacherously with one another
By profaning the covenant of the fathers?
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Judah has dealt treacherously,
And an abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem,
For Judah has r profaned
The LORD's holy institution which He loves:
He has married the daughter of a foreign god.
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May the LORD cut off from the tents of Jacob
The man who does this, being awake and aware,
Yet s who brings an offering to the LORD of hosts!
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And this is the second thing you do:
You cover the altar of the LORD with tears,
With weeping and crying;
So He does not regard the offering anymore,
Nor receive it with goodwill from your hands.
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Yet you say, "For what reason?"
Because the LORD has been witness
Between you and t the wife of your youth,
With whom you have dealt treacherously;
u Yet she is your companion
And your wife by covenant.
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But v did He not make them one,
Having a remnant of the Spirit?
And why one?
He seeks w godly offspring.
Therefore take heed to your spirit,
And let none deal treacherously with the wife of his youth.
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"For x the LORD God of Israel says
That He hates divorce,
For it covers one's garment with violence,"
Says the LORD of hosts.
"Therefore take heed to your spirit,
That you do not deal treacherously."
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Cross References
Jeremiah 31:9
They shall come with weeping, And with supplications I will lead them. I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters, In a straight way in which they shall not stumble; For I am a Father to Israel, And Ephraim is My firstborn.
1 Corinthians 8:6
Yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.
Ephesians 4:6
One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
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Cross References
Job 31:15
Did not He who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same One fashion us in the womb?
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Cross References
Ezra 9:1
When these things were done, the leaders came to me, saying, "The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, with respect to the abominations of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Ezra 9:2
"For they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed is mixed with the peoples of those lands. Indeed, the hand of the leaders and rulers has been foremost in this trespass."
Nehemiah 13:23
In those days I also saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
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Cross References
Nehemiah 13:29
Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.
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Cross References
Proverbs 5:18
Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice with the wife of your youth.
Jeremiah 9:2
Oh, that I had in the wilderness A lodging place for travelers; That I might leave my people, And go from them! For they are all adulterers, An assembly of treacherous men.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near you for judgment; I will be a swift witness Against sorcerers, Against adulterers, Against perjurers, Against those who exploit wage earners and widows and orphans, And against those who turn away an alien - Because they do not fear Me," Says the LORD of hosts.
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Cross References
Proverbs 2:17
Who forsakes the companion of her youth, And forgets the covenant of her God.
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Cross References
Genesis 2:24
Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Matthew 19:4
And He answered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female.
Matthew 19:5
And said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh' ?
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Cross References
Ezra 9:2
"For they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed is mixed with the peoples of those lands. Indeed, the hand of the leaders and rulers has been foremost in this trespass."
1 Corinthians 7:14
For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 24:1
When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some uncleanness in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house.
Matthew 5:31
"Furthermore it has been said, 'Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.'
Matthew 19:6 - 8
"So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."
New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.