Ezra 9:1-2
ContextA Prayer of Ezra
9:1 Now when these things had been completed, the leaders approached me and said, “The people of Israel, the priests, and the Levites have not separated themselves from the local residents 1 who practice detestable things similar to those of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. 9:2 Indeed, they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race 2 has become intermingled with the local residents. Worse still, the leaders and the officials have been at the forefront of all of this!”
Ezra 9:11
Context9:11 which you commanded us through your servants the prophets with these words: 3 ‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land defiled by the impurities of the local residents! 4 With their abominations they have filled it from one end to the other with their filthiness.