Lev 18:24-28, Deu 4:26, 29:26-28, 2Ki 17:20-23, 25:9, 21, Jer 7:15 | ESV | STEP | Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things , for by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean ,

s[See ver. 20 above]

u[See ver. 14 above]

w Ps. 78:67; Hos. 4:17; 5:3, 9; 6:4; 12:1

Leviticus 18:24-28

24 ^a“Do not make yourselves unclean by any of these things, ^bfor by all these the nations I am driving out before you have become unclean, 25 and the ^cland became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land ^dvomited out its inhabitants. 26 But ^eyou shall keep my statutes and my rules and do none of these abominations, either the ^fnative or the stranger who sojourns among you 27 (for the people of the land, who were before you, did all of these abominations, so that the land became unclean), 28 lest the land vomit you out when you make it unclean, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

Deuteronomy 4:26

26 I ^gcall heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are going over the Jordan to possess. You will not live long in it, but will be utterly destroyed.

Deuteronomy 29:26-28

26 and went and served other gods and worshiped them, gods whom they had not known and whom he had not allotted to them. 27 Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, ^hbringing upon it all the curses written in this book, 28 and the Lord ⁱuprooted them from their land in anger and fury and great wrath, and ^jcast them into another land, as they are this day.’

2 Kings 17:20-23

20 And the Lord rejected all the descendants of Israel and afflicted them ^kand gave them into the hand of plunderers, until he had cast them out of his sight.

21 ^lWhen he had torn Israel from the house of David, ^mthey made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king. And Jeroboam drove Israel from following the Lord ⁿand made them commit great sin. 22 The people of Israel walked in all the sins that Jeroboam did. They did not depart from them, 23 until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, ^oas he had spoken by all his servants the prophets. ^pSo Israel was exiled from their own land to Assyria until this day.

2 Kings 25:9

9 ^qAnd he burned the house of the Lord ^rand the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

2 Kings 25:21

21 And the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at ^sRiblah in the land of Hamath. ^tSo Judah was taken into exile out of its land.

Jeremiah 7:15

15 ^uAnd I will cast you out of my sight, ^vas I cast out all your kinsmen, all the offspring of ^wEphraim.