The Lord's Land

A new oracle looks back to the defiling sins of israel prior to their exile. In places like the book of leviticus, the land was described as a realm that could be polluted with bloodshed and abomination. Rituals were prescribed for instan for dealing with defiling bloodshed in the land. These rituals ensured that israel would not suffer the fate of the previous wicked inhabitants. Israel's defiling of the land, however, chiefly occurred through the idolatry. That it performed something that was pervasive in all the land. They established shrines in all the high places, next to notable trees and in many other such places in theLand. The relationship between the land