Deuteronomy 31:16
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16 And the Lord said to Moses, (A)“Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and (B)whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will (C)forsake me and (D)break my covenant that I have made with them.
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Judges 10:6
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Further Disobedience and Oppression
6 (A)The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord (B)and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, (C)the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they (D)forsook the Lord and did not serve him.
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Judges 2:12
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12 (A)And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. (B)They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and (C)bowed down to them. (D)And they provoked the Lord to anger.
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Judges 10:13
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13 Yet you have (A)forsaken me and served other gods; therefore I will save you no more.
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Revelation 19:2
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2 for (A)his judgments are true and just;
for he has judged (B)the great prostitute
who corrupted the earth with her immorality,
and (C)has avenged on her the blood of his servants.”
Ezekiel 16:15
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15 (A)“But you trusted in your beauty (B)and played the whore[a] because of your renown (C)and lavished your whorings[b] on any passerby; your beauty[c] became his.
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- Ezekiel 16:15 Or were unfaithful; also verses 16, 17, 26, 28
- Ezekiel 16:15 Or unfaithfulness; also verses 20, 22, 25, 26, 29, 33, 34, 36
- Ezekiel 16:15 Hebrew it
Exodus 34:15
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15 (A)lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they (B)whore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and (C)you are invited, you eat of his sacrifice,
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Acts 13:36
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36 For David, after he had (A)served the purpose of God in his own generation, (B)fell asleep and (C)was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,
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Hosea 2:2-5
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2 “Plead with your mother, plead—
for (A)she is not my wife,
and I am not her husband—
that she put away (B)her whoring from her face,
and her adultery from between her breasts;
3 lest (C)I strip her naked
and make her as (D)in the day she was born,
and (E)make her like a wilderness,
and make her like a parched land,
and kill her with thirst.
4 (F)Upon her children also I will have no mercy,
(G)because they are children of whoredom.
5 For (H)their mother has played the whore;
she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For (I)she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
who (J)give me my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
Ezekiel 23:5-21
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5 “Oholah played the whore (A)while she was mine, and (B)she lusted after her lovers (C)the Assyrians, warriors 6 clothed in purple, (D)governors and commanders, (E)all of them desirable young men, (F)horsemen riding on horses. 7 She bestowed her whoring upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them, and she defiled herself with all the idols of everyone after whom she lusted. 8 She did not give up her whoring (G)that she had begun in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her and handled her virgin bosom and poured out their whoring lust upon her. 9 Therefore (H)I delivered her into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians, after whom she lusted. 10 (I)These uncovered her nakedness; (J)they seized her sons and her daughters; and as for her, they killed her with the sword; and she became (K)a byword among women, (L)when judgment had been executed on her.
11 (M)“Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became (N)more corrupt than her sister[a] in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister. 12 She lusted after the Assyrians, governors and commanders, warriors clothed in full armor, horsemen riding on horses, (O)all of them desirable young men. 13 And I saw that she was defiled; they both took the same way. 14 But she carried her whoring further. She saw men (P)portrayed on the wall, the (Q)images of (R)the Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion, 15 wearing belts on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them having the appearance of officers, a likeness of Babylonians whose native land was Chaldea. 16 When she saw them, she lusted after them and (S)sent messengers to them (T)in Chaldea. 17 And the Babylonians came to her (U)into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoring lust. And after she was defiled by them, (V)she turned from them in disgust. 18 When she carried on her whoring so openly and flaunted her nakedness, I turned in disgust from her, as I had turned in disgust from her sister. 19 Yet she increased her whoring, (W)remembering the days of her youth, when she played the whore in the land of Egypt 20 and lusted after her lovers there, whose members were like those of donkeys, and whose issue was like that of horses. 21 Thus you longed for the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians handled your bosom and pressed[b] your young breasts.”
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- Ezekiel 23:11 Hebrew than she
- Ezekiel 23:21 Vulgate, Syriac; Hebrew bosom for the sake of
Ezekiel 16:25-36
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25 At the head of every street (A)you built your lofty place and made (B)your beauty an abomination, (C)offering yourself[a] to any passerby and multiplying your whoring. 26 (D)You also played the whore (E)with the Egyptians, your lustful neighbors, (F)multiplying your whoring, (G)to provoke me to anger. 27 Behold, therefore, I stretched out my hand against you (H)and diminished your allotted portion (I)and delivered you to the greed of your enemies, (J)the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior. 28 (K)You played the whore also (L)with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied. 29 You multiplied your whoring also with the trading land (M)of Chaldea, and even with this you were not satisfied.
30 “How sick is your heart,[b] declares the Lord God, because you did all these things, the deeds of a brazen prostitute, 31 building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, (N)because you scorned payment. 32 Adulterous wife, who receives strangers instead of her husband! 33 Men give gifts to all prostitutes, (O)but you gave your gifts to all your lovers, bribing them to come to you from every side with your whorings. 34 So you were different from other women in your whorings. No one solicited you to play the whore, and (P)you gave payment, while no payment was given to you; therefore you were different.
35 “Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the Lord: 36 Thus says the Lord God, Because your lust was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your whorings with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, (Q)and because of the blood of your children that you gave to them,
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- Ezekiel 16:25 Hebrew spreading your legs
- Ezekiel 16:30 Revocalization yields How I am filled with anger against you
Jeremiah 31:32
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32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when (A)I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, (B)though I was their husband, declares the Lord.
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Jeremiah 3:1-3
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3 (A)“If[a] a man divorces his wife
and she goes from him
and becomes another man's wife,
will he return to her?
(B)Would not that land be greatly polluted?
(C)You have played the whore with many lovers;
and would you return to me?
declares the Lord.
2 Lift up your eyes to (D)the bare heights, and see!
Where have you not been ravished?
(E)By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers
like an Arab in the wilderness.
(F)You have polluted the land
with your vile whoredom.
3 (G)Therefore the showers have been withheld,
and the spring rain has not come;
yet you have (H)the forehead of a whore;
you refuse to be ashamed.
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- Jeremiah 3:1 Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew Saying, “If
Jeremiah 2:11-13
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11 (A)Has a nation changed its gods,
(B)even though they are no gods?
But my people (C)have changed their glory
for (D)that which does not profit.
12 Be appalled, (E)O heavens, at this;
be shocked, be utterly desolate,
declares the Lord,
13 for my people have committed two evils:
(F)they have forsaken (G)me,
the fountain of (H)living waters,
and hewed out cisterns for themselves,
broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Isaiah 57:2-8
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2 (A)he enters into peace;
they rest (B)in their beds
who walk in their uprightness.
3 But you, draw near,
sons of the sorceress,
(C)offspring of the adulterer and the loose woman.
4 Whom are you mocking?
Against whom (D)do you open your mouth wide
and stick out your tongue?
Are you not children of (E)transgression,
(F)the offspring of deceit,
5 you who burn with lust among (G)the oaks,[a]
under every green tree,
(H)who slaughter your children in the valleys,
under the clefts of the rocks?
6 Among the smooth stones of (I)the valley is your portion;
they, they, are your lot;
to them you have poured out a drink offering,
you have brought a grain offering.
Shall I relent for these things?
7 (J)On a high and lofty mountain
you have set your bed,
and there you went up to offer sacrifice.
8 Behind the door and the doorpost
you have set up your memorial;
for, deserting me, (K)you have uncovered your bed,
you have gone up to it,
(L)you have made it wide;
and you have made a covenant for yourself with them,
you have loved their bed,
you have looked on nakedness.[b]
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- Isaiah 57:5 Or among the terebinths
- Isaiah 57:8 Or on a monument (see 56:5); Hebrew on a hand
Psalm 106:39
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Psalm 73:27
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27 For behold, those who are (A)far from you shall perish;
you put an end to everyone who is (B)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 (B)you lie down with your fathers, (C)I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall 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 did not listen to their judges, for (A)they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. (B)They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so. 18 Whenever the Lord raised up judges for them, (C)the Lord was with the judge, and he saved them from the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge. (D)For the Lord was moved to pity by (E)their groaning because of those who afflicted and oppressed them. 19 But (F)whenever the judge died, they turned back and were more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods, serving them and bowing down to them. They did not drop any of their practices or their stubborn ways. 20 (G)So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he said, “Because this people (H)have transgressed my covenant that I commanded their fathers and have not obeyed my voice,
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Leviticus 26:15
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15 if you spurn my statutes, and if your soul abhors my rules, so that you will not do all my commandments, but (A)break my covenant,
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Leviticus 20:3-6
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3 (A)I myself will set my face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he has given one of his children to Molech, to make my sanctuary (B)unclean and (C)to profane my holy name. 4 And if the people of the land do at all close their eyes to that man when he gives one of his children to Molech, and do not (D)put him to death, 5 then I will set my face against that man and against his clan and will cut them off from among their people, him and all who follow him in (E)whoring after Molech.
6 “If (F)a person turns to mediums and necromancers, whoring after them, (G)I will set my face against that person and will cut him off from among his people.
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Exodus 32:6
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6 And they rose up early the next day and offered burnt offerings and brought peace offerings. And (A)the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up (B)to play.
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Genesis 25:8
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8 Abraham (A)breathed his last and (B)died in a good old age, an old man and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
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