The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
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The land was defiled. Therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
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And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
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And the land was defiled, therefore I did visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land vomited out her inhabitants.
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Passages linked to Leviticus 18:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 18:28 that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.
- Leviticus 20:22-23 “ ‘You shall therefore keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and do them, that the land where I am bringing you to dwell may not vomit you out. You shall not walk in the customs of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they did all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
- Jeremiah 2:7 I brought you into a plentiful land to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
- Psalms 106:38 They shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.
- Jeremiah 9:9 Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on a nation such as this?
- Numbers 35:33-34 “ ‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it. You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, where I dwell; for I, Yahweh, dwell among the children of Israel.’ ”
- Deuteronomy 18:12 For whoever does these things is an abomination to Yahweh. Because of these abominations, Yahweh your God drives them out from before you.
- Isaiah 26:21 For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also will disclose her blood, and will no longer cover her slain.
- Jeremiah 5:9 Shouldn’t I punish them for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
- Jeremiah 5:29 “Shouldn’t I punish for these things?” says Yahweh. “Shouldn’t my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
- Jeremiah 14:10 Yahweh says to this people, “Even so they have loved to wander. They have not restrained their feet. Therefore Yahweh does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish them for their sins.”
- Jeremiah 16:18 First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations.”
- Jeremiah 23:2 Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says against the shepherds who feed my people: “You have scattered my flock, driven them away, and have not visited them. Behold, I will visit on you the evil of your doings,” says Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 36:17-18 “Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and by their deeds. Their way before me was as the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity. Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols.
- Hosea 2:13 I will visit on her the days of the Baals, to which she burned incense, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me,” says Yahweh.
- Psalms 89:32 then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
- Isaiah 24:5 The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
- Hosea 8:13 As for the sacrifices of my offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it; But Yahweh doesn’t accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity, and punish their sins. They will return to Egypt.
- Hosea 9:9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah. He will remember their iniquity. He will punish them for their sins.
- Deuteronomy 9:5 Not for your righteousness or for the uprightness of your heart do you go in to possess their land; but for the wickedness of these nations Yahweh your God does drive them out from before you, and that he may establish the word which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain I will punish the land where such incestuous marriages…
I will punish the land where such incestuous marriages and pollutions are suffered.
He compareth the wicked to evil humors and surfeiting, which corrupt the stomach, and oppress nature, and therefore must be cast out by vomit.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Lev 18:25 And the land is defiled: therefore I…
Lev 18:25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Ver. 25. And the land is defiled.] From one end thereof to the other; {Ezr 9:11} as the face of the old world was grown so foul, that God was fain to wash it with a flood.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain I do visit; I am now visiting, or about…
I do visit; I am now visiting, or about to visit, i. e. to punish. See Isa 26:21.
The land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants, as no less burdens to the earth than corrupted food is to the stomach. See Jer 9:19; Mic 2:10.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the land is defiled,.... The inhabitants of it,…
And the land is defiled,.... The inhabitants of it, with the immoralities and idolatries before mentioned:
therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it; or punish the inhabitants that are on it for their sins:
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and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants; as a stomach loaded with corrupt and bad food it has taken in, nauseates it, and cannot bear and retain it, but casts it up, and never receives it again; so the land of Canaan is represented as loathing its inhabitants, and as having an aversion to them, and indignation against them, and as not being able to bear them, but entirely willing to be rid of them and throw them out of their places in it, never to be admitted more, being as nauseous and as useless as the cast of a man's stomach; see Rev 3:16.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain I visit - I am about to visit, that…
I visit - I am about to visit, that is, to punish.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 25. The land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.]…
Verse 25. The land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.] This is a very nervous prosopopoeia or personification; a figure by which any part of inanimate nature may be represented as possessing the passions and reason of man. Here the land is represented as an intelligent being, with a deep and refined sense of moral good and evil: information concerning the abominations of the people is brought to this personified land, with which it is so deeply affected that a nausea is produced, and it vomits out its abominable and accursed inhabitants. It was natural for the inspired penman to make use of such a figure, as the description he was obliged to give of so many and enormous abominations must have affected him nearly in the same way in which he represents the land to be affected.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it;…
therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it; and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants--The Canaanites, as enormous and incorrigible sinners, were to be exterminated; and this extermination was manifestly a judicial punishment inflicted by a ruler whose laws had been grossly and perseveringly outraged. But before a law can be disobeyed, it must have been previously in existence; and hence a law, prohibiting all the horrid crimes enumerated above--a law obligatory upon the Canaanites as well as other nations--was already known and in force before the Levitical law of incest was promulgated. Some general Iaw, then, prohibiting these crimes must have been published to mankind at a very early period of the world's history; and that law must either have been the moral law, originally written on the human heart, or a law on the institution of marriage revealed to Adam and known to the Canaanites and others by tradition or otherwise.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 25. The land itself — Canaan.
25. The land itself — Canaan.
Vomiteth — By a striking personification the very ground on which these abominations are enacted, like the stomach of a sick man, figuratively ejects the perpetrators of these filthy deeds.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (25) The land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.—From the…
(25) The land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.—From the creation the earth shared in the punishment of man’s guilt (Gen_3:17), and at the restitution of all things she is to participate in his restoration (Rom_8:19-22). The physical condition of the land, therefore, depends upon the moral conduct of man. When he disobeys God’s commandments she is parched up and does not yield her fruit” (Deu_11:17). “The land is defiled” when he defiles himself. When he walks in the way of the Divine commands she is blessed (Lev_25:19; Lev_26:4); “God is merciful unto his land and to his people” (Deu_32:43). Hence, “the earth mourneth” when her inhabitants sin (Isa_24:4-5), and “the earth is glad” when God avenges the cause of His people (Psa_96:11-13). It is owing to this intimate connection between them that the land, which is here personified, is represented as loathing the wicked conduct of her children and being unable to restrain them. She nauseated them. The same figure is used in Lev_18:28; Lev_20:22; and in Rev_3:16.
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