Deuteronomy 31:16
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16 And the Lord said to Moses: “Behold, you will [a]rest with your fathers; and this people will (A)rise and (B)play the harlot with the gods of the foreigners of the land, where they go to be among them, and they will (C)forsake Me and (D)break My covenant which I have made with them.
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- Deuteronomy 31:16 Die and join your ancestors
Judges 10:6
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Israel Oppressed Again
6 Then (A)the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the Lord, and (B)served the Baals and the Ashtoreths, (C)the gods of Syria, the gods of (D)Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the people of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook the Lord and did not serve Him.
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Judges 2:12
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12 and they (A)forsook the Lord God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; and they followed (B)other gods from among the gods of the people who were all around them, and they (C)bowed down to them; and they provoked the Lord to anger.
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Judges 10:13
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13 (A)Yet you have forsaken Me and served other gods. Therefore I will deliver you no more.
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Revelation 19:2
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2 For (A)true and righteous are His judgments, because He has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication; and He (B)has avenged on her the blood of His servants shed by her.”
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Acts 13:36
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36 “For David, after he had served [a]his own generation by the will of God, (A)fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and [b]saw corruption;
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- Acts 13:36 in his
- Acts 13:36 underwent decay
Hosea 2:2-5
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God’s Unfaithful People
2 “Bring[a] charges against your mother, [b]bring charges;
For (A)she is not My wife, nor am I her Husband!
Let her put away her (B)harlotries from her sight,
And her adulteries from between her breasts;
3 Lest (C)I strip her naked
And expose her, as in the day she was (D)born,
And make her like a wilderness,
And set her like a dry land,
And slay her with (E)thirst.
4 “I will not have mercy on her children,
For they are the (F)children of harlotry.
5 For their mother has played the harlot;
She who conceived them has behaved shamefully.
For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
(G)Who give me my bread and my water,
My wool and my linen,
My oil and my drink.’
Ezekiel 16:15
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Jerusalem’s Harlotry
15 (A)“But you trusted in your own beauty, (B)played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your harlotry on everyone passing by who would have it.
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Deuteronomy 32:15
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15 “But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked;
(A)You grew fat, you grew thick,
You are obese!
Then he (B)forsook God who (C)made him,
And scornfully esteemed the (D)Rock of his salvation.
Exodus 34:15
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15 lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they (A)play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them (B)invites you and you (C)eat of his sacrifice,
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Revelation 17:2-5
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2 (A)with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and (B)the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.”
3 So he carried me away in the Spirit (C)into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting (D)on a scarlet beast which was full of (E)names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman (F)was arrayed in purple and scarlet, (G)and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, (H)having in her hand a golden cup (I)full of abominations and the filthiness of [a]her fornication. 5 And on her forehead a name was written:
(J)MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS
OF THE EARTH.
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- Revelation 17:4 M the fornication of the earth
Ezekiel 23:5-21
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The Older Sister, Samaria
5 “Oholah played the harlot even though she was Mine;
And she lusted for her lovers, the neighboring (A)Assyrians,
6 Who were clothed in purple,
Captains and rulers,
All of them desirable young men,
Horsemen riding on horses.
7 Thus she committed her harlotry with them,
All of them choice men of Assyria;
And with all for whom she lusted,
With all their idols, she defiled herself.
8 She has never given up her harlotry brought (B)from Egypt,
For in her youth they had lain with her,
Pressed her virgin bosom,
And poured out their immorality upon her.
9 “Therefore I have delivered her
Into the hand of her lovers,
Into the hand of the (C)Assyrians,
For whom she lusted.
10 They uncovered her nakedness,
Took away her sons and daughters,
And slew her with the sword;
She became a byword among women,
For they had executed judgment on her.
The Younger Sister, Jerusalem
11 “Now (D)although her sister Oholibah saw this, (E)she became more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her harlotry more corrupt than her sister’s harlotry.
12 “She lusted for the neighboring (F)Assyrians,
(G)Captains and rulers,
Clothed most gorgeously,
Horsemen riding on horses,
All of them desirable young men.
13 Then I saw that she was defiled;
Both took the same way.
14 But she increased her harlotry;
She looked at men portrayed on the wall,
Images of (H)Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,
15 Girded with belts around their waists,
Flowing turbans on their heads,
All of them looking like captains,
In the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea,
The land of their nativity.
16 (I)As soon as her eyes saw them,
She lusted for them
And sent (J)messengers to them in Chaldea.
17 “Then the [a]Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love,
And they defiled her with their immorality;
So she was defiled by them, (K)and alienated herself from them.
18 She revealed her harlotry and uncovered her nakedness.
Then (L)I (M)alienated Myself from her,
As I had alienated Myself from her sister.
19 “Yet she multiplied her harlotry
In calling to remembrance the days of her youth,
(N)When she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
20 For she lusted for her [b]paramours,
Whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys,
And whose issue is like the issue of horses.
21 Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth,
When the (O)Egyptians pressed your bosom
Because of your youthful breasts.
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- Ezekiel 23:17 Lit. sons of Babel
- Ezekiel 23:20 Illicit lovers
Ezekiel 16:25-36
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25 You built your high places (A)at the head of every road, and made your beauty to be abhorred. You offered yourself to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your acts of harlotry. 26 You also committed harlotry with (B)the Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of harlotry to (C)provoke Me to anger.
27 “Behold, therefore, I stretched out My hand against you, diminished your [a]allotment, and gave you up to the will of those who hate you, (D)the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior. 28 You also played the harlot with the (E)Assyrians, because you were insatiable; indeed you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied. 29 Moreover you multiplied your acts of harlotry as far as the land of the trader, (F)Chaldea; and even then you were not satisfied.
30 “How degenerate is your heart!” says the Lord God, “seeing you do all these things, the deeds of a brazen harlot.
Jerusalem’s Adultery
31 (G)“You erected your shrine at the head of every road, and built your [b]high place in every street. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned (H)payment. 32 You are an adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband. 33 Men make payment to all harlots, but (I)you made your payments to all your lovers, and [c]hired them to come to you from all around for your harlotry. 34 You are the opposite of other women in your harlotry, because no one solicited you to be a harlot. In that you gave payment but no payment was given you, therefore you are the opposite.”
Jerusalem’s Lovers Will Abuse Her
35 ‘Now then, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord! 36 Thus says the Lord God: “Because your filthiness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotry with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of (J)the blood of your children which you gave to them,
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- Ezekiel 16:27 Allowance of food
- Ezekiel 16:31 Place for pagan worship
- Ezekiel 16:33 Or bribed
Jeremiah 3:1-3
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Israel Is Shameless
3 “They say, ‘If a man divorces his wife,
And she goes from him
And becomes another man’s,
(A)May he return to her again?’
Would not that (B)land be greatly polluted?
But you have (C)played the harlot with many lovers;
(D)Yet return to Me,” says the Lord.
2 “Lift up your eyes to (E)the desolate heights and see:
Where have you not [a]lain with men?
(F)By the road you have sat for them
Like an Arabian in the wilderness;
(G)And you have polluted the land
With your harlotries and your wickedness.
3 Therefore the (H)showers have been withheld,
And there has been no latter rain.
You have had a (I)harlot’s forehead;
You refuse to be ashamed.
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- Jeremiah 3:2 Kt. been violated
Jeremiah 2:11-13
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11 (A)Has a nation changed its gods,
Which are (B)not gods?
(C)But My people have changed their Glory
For what does not profit.
12 Be astonished, O heavens, at this,
And be horribly afraid;
Be very desolate,” says the Lord.
13 “For My people have committed two evils:
They have forsaken Me, the (D)fountain of living waters,
And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Isaiah 57:2-8
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2 He shall enter into peace;
They shall rest in (A)their beds,
Each one walking in his uprightness.
3 “But come here,
(B)You sons of the sorceress,
You offspring of the adulterer and the harlot!
4 Whom do you ridicule?
Against whom do you make a wide mouth
And stick out the tongue?
Are you not children of transgression,
Offspring of falsehood,
5 Inflaming yourselves with gods (C)under every green tree,
(D)Slaying the children in the valleys,
Under the clefts of the rocks?
6 Among the smooth (E)stones of the stream
Is your portion;
They, they, are your lot!
Even to them you have poured a drink offering,
You have offered a grain offering.
Should I receive comfort in (F)these?
7 “On(G) a lofty and high mountain
You have set (H)your bed;
Even there you went up
To offer sacrifice.
8 Also behind the doors and their posts
You have set up your remembrance;
For you have uncovered yourself to those other than Me,
And have gone up to them;
You have enlarged your bed
And [a]made a covenant with them;
(I)You have loved their bed,
Where you saw their [b]nudity.
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- Isaiah 57:8 Lit. cut
- Isaiah 57:8 Lit. hand, a euphemism
Psalm 106:39
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- Psalm 106:39 became unclean
- Psalm 106:39 Were unfaithful
Psalm 73:27
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27 For indeed, (A)those who are far from You shall perish;
You have destroyed all those who [a]desert You for harlotry.
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- Psalm 73:27 Are unfaithful to You
Job 20:11
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2 Samuel 7:12
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12 (A)“When your days are fulfilled and you (B)rest with your fathers, (C)I will set up your seed after you, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
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Judges 2:17-20
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17 Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they (A)played the harlot with other gods, and bowed down to them. They turned quickly from the way in which their fathers walked, in obeying the commandments of the Lord; they did not do so. 18 And when the Lord raised up judges for them, (B)the Lord was with the judge and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; (C)for the Lord was moved to pity by their groaning because of those who oppressed them and harassed them. 19 And it came to pass, (D)when the judge was dead, that they reverted and behaved more corruptly than their fathers, by following other gods, to serve them and bow down to them. They did not cease from their own doings nor from their stubborn way.
20 Then the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel; and He said, “Because this nation has (E)transgressed My covenant which I commanded their fathers, and has not heeded My voice,
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Leviticus 26:15
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15 and if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant,
Leviticus 20:3-6
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3 (A)I will set My face against that man, and will [a]cut him off from his people, because he has given some of his descendants to Molech, to defile My sanctuary and profane My holy name. 4 And if the people of the land should in any way [b]hide their eyes from the man, when he gives some of his descendants to Molech, and they do not kill him, 5 then I will set My face against that man and against his family; and I will cut him off from his people, and all who prostitute themselves with him to commit harlotry with Molech.
6 ‘And (B)the person who turns to mediums and familiar spirits, to prostitute himself with them, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.
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- Leviticus 20:3 Put him to death
- Leviticus 20:4 disregard
Exodus 32:6
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6 Then they rose early on the next day, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people (A)sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.
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Genesis 25:8
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8 Then Abraham breathed his last and (A)died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and (B)was gathered to his people.
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