Lev 18:27-28, Num 35:33-34, Psa 106:38, Isa 24:5, Jer 2:7, 3:1-2, 9 | ESV | STEP | (for the people of the land , who were before you, did all of these abominations , so that the land became unclean ),

q[See ver. 1 above]

Leviticus 18:27-28

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.

Numbers 35:33-34

33 You shall not ^apollute the land in which you live, for blood ^bpollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except ^cby the blood of the one who shed it. 34 ^dYou shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, ^efor I the Lord dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.”

Psalms 106:38

38 they poured out innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
and the land was ^fpolluted with blood.

Isaiah 24:5

5 The earth lies ^gdefiled
under its inhabitants;
for ^hthey have transgressed the laws,
violated the statutes,
broken the everlasting covenant.

Jeremiah 2:7

7 ⁱAnd I brought you into a plentiful land
to enjoy its fruits and its good things.
But when you came in, ^jyou defiled my land
and made my heritage an abomination.

Jeremiah 3:1-2

1 ^k“If ^{▼▼Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew Saying, “If} a man divorces his wife
and she goes from him
and becomes another man’s wife,
will he return to her?
^mWould not that land be greatly polluted?
ⁿYou have played the whore with many lovers;
and would you return to me?

declares the Lord.
2 Lift up your eyes to ^othe bare heights, and see!
Where have you not been ravished?
^pBy the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers
like an Arab in the wilderness.
^qYou have polluted the land
with your vile whoredom.

Jeremiah 3:9

9 Because she took her whoredom lightly, she polluted the land, committing adultery with ^rstone and tree.