Cross references
Ezra 9:12
Now, therefore, do not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters for your sons. Never seek their peace or prosperity, so that you may be strong and may eat the good things of the land, leaving it as an inheritance to your sons forever.’
Ezra 9:12 has 15 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 7 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Deuteronomy 7:3 (17 votes) and Deuteronomy 23:6 (12 votes). 22 other verses point back to it. It links with 19 other books, from Genesis 6 to 2 John 1.
Which verses does Ezra 9:12 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Deuteronomy 7:317 votes
Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
- Deuteronomy 23:612 votes
You are not to seek peace or prosperity from them as long as you live.
- Joshua 23:12–1310 votes
For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them, know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.
- Exodus 34:15–167 votes
Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices. And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.
- Proverbs 13:227 votes
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
- Proverbs 20:74 votes
The righteous man walks with integrity; blessed are his children after him.
- 2 John 1:10–114 votes
If anyone comes to you but does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your home or even greet him. Whoever greets such a person shares in his evil deeds.
- Genesis 18:18–193 votes
Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed. For I have chosen him, so that he will command his children and his household after him to keep the way of the LORD by doing what is right and just, in order that the LORD may bring upon Abraham what He has promised.”
- Exodus 23:323 votes
You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.
- Ezra 9:23 votes
Indeed, the Israelites have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the people of the land. And the leaders and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness!”
- Psalm 112:1–23 votes
- Isaiah 1:193 votes
- Deuteronomy 6:1–22 votes
- Joshua 1:6–92 votes
- 2 Chronicles 19:21 vote
Which verses point to Ezra 9:12?
The 10 strongest of 22.