Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. Lev 18:24-30Neh 9:2Ezr 10:10-11Deu 12:30-31Exo 33:16Rom 2:17-251Ki 11:11Ki 11:5-7 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass. Neh 13:23-24Exo 34:16Ezr 10:18-44Ezr 10:2Deu 7:1-4Deu 7:61Co 7:14Deu 14:2 And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied. Neh 1:4Jos 7:62Ki 18:37Dan 4:19Dan 8:27Ezk 3:15Ezk 7:18Isa 15:2 Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice. Ezr 10:3Isa 66:2Exo 29:392Ch 34:27Psa 119:136Act 3:1Dan 9:21Ezk 9:4
¶ And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God, 1 1Ki 8:221Ki 8:381Ki 8:54Exo 9:29Exo 9:332Ch 6:13Eph 3:14Psa 141:2 And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens. 2 Rev 18:5Psa 38:42Ch 28:9Ezr 9:15Job 42:6Luk 15:21Jer 3:24-25Dan 9:7-8 Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day. 2Ch 29:6Dan 9:5-81Ki 9:6-91Sa 12:152Ch 30:72Ch 36:16-192Ki 17:5-82Ki 18:9-12 And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage. 3 4 Psa 13:3Rom 11:5-6Hos 6:2Ezk 37:11-14Hab 3:2Isa 57:15Psa 85:6Ecc 12:11 For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem. 5 Ezr 7:6Psa 136:23-24Hag 1:9Psa 106:45-46Zec 2:5Zec 4:6-10Dan 9:25Ezk 11:16 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments, Dan 9:4-16Gen 44:16Jos 7:8Lam 3:22Rom 3:19 Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness. 6 7 Lev 18:24-30Ezr 6:212Ch 33:22Co 7:1Deu 12:31Deu 18:12Ezk 36:25-27Ezr 9:1 Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever. Deu 7:3Deu 23:6Jos 23:12-13Exo 34:15-16Pro 13:222Jn 1:10-11Pro 20:7Exo 23:32 And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this; 8 Psa 103:10Lam 3:22Lam 3:39-40Job 11:6Ezk 24:13-14Ezr 9:6-8Neh 9:32Psa 106:45-46 Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping? Deu 9:8Deu 9:14Ezr 9:22Pe 2:20-21Exo 32:10Jdg 2:2Jhn 5:14Num 16:21 O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this. Psa 130:3Jhn 8:24Jhn 8:21Rom 3:19Neh 9:33-34Rom 10:3Zec 3:3-4Dan 9:14