John Gill's Exposition on Ezra 9:11

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, etc.] Moses, and Joshua, and others, (see <050703>Deuteronomy 7:3 <062312>Joshua 23:12 <070202> Judges 2:2) saying, the land, unto which ye go to possess it; meaning the land of Canaan: 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; which is to be understood not of their idolatries only, but of their incestuous marriages, and impure copulations, on which account the Lord spewed out the old inhabitants of it; for which reason the Jews ought to have been careful not to have defiled it again by similar practices; (see <031801> Leviticus 18:1-30).

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