Ezra 9:11 meaning and explanation

that You gave through Your servants the prophets, saying: ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land polluted by the impurity of its peoples and the abominations with which they have filled it from end to end.

Ezra 9:11, Berean Standard Bible

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Ezra is praying in Jerusalem after the return from exile, and in verse 11 he quotes what God spoke through the prophets about the land. The land Israel was entering was already defiled by the practices of its peoples, described as abominations, a word tied to idolatry and the moral evils that went with it.

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