Ezekiel 16:33
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33 Men make payment to all harlots, but (A)you made your payments to all your lovers, and [a]hired them to come to you from all around for your harlotry.
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- Ezekiel 16:33 Or bribed
Hosea 8:9-10
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9 For they have gone up to Assyria,
Like (A)a wild donkey alone by itself;
Ephraim (B)has hired lovers.
10 Yes, though they have hired among the nations,
Now (C)I will gather them;
And they shall [a]sorrow a little,
Because of the [b]burden of (D)the king of princes.
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- Hosea 8:10 Or begin to diminish
- Hosea 8:10 Or oracle or proclamation
Isaiah 57:9
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9 (A)You went to the king with ointment,
And increased your perfumes;
You sent your (B)messengers far off,
And even descended to Sheol.
Luke 15:30
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30 But as soon as this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with harlots, you killed the fatted calf for him.’
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Micah 1:7
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7 All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,
And all her (A)pay as a harlot shall be burned with the fire;
All her idols I will lay desolate,
For she gathered it from the pay of a harlot,
And they shall return to the (B)pay of a harlot.”
Joel 3:3
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3 They have (A)cast lots for My people,
Have given a boy as payment for a harlot,
And sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.
Hosea 2:12
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12 “And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees,
Of which she has said,
‘These are my wages that my lovers have given me.’
So I will make them a forest,
And the beasts of the field shall eat them.
Ezekiel 16:41
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41 They shall (A)burn your houses with fire, and (B)execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will make you (C)cease playing the harlot, and you shall no longer hire lovers.
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Isaiah 30:6-7
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6 (A)The [a]burden against the beasts of the South.
Through a land of trouble and anguish,
From which came the lioness and lion,
(B)The viper and fiery flying serpent,
They will carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys,
And their treasures on the humps of camels,
To a people who shall not profit;
7 (C)For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no purpose.
Therefore I have called her
[b]Rahab-Hem-Shebeth.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 30:6 oracle, prophecy
- Isaiah 30:7 Lit. Rahab Sits Idle
Isaiah 30:3
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3 (A)Therefore the strength of Pharaoh
Shall be your shame,
And trust in the shadow of Egypt
Shall be your humiliation.
Deuteronomy 23:17-18
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17 “There shall be no ritual [a]harlot (A)of the daughters of Israel, or a (B)perverted[b] one of the sons of Israel. 18 You shall not bring the wages of a harlot or the price of a dog to the house of the Lord your God for any vowed offering, for both of these are [c]an abomination to the Lord your God.
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- Deuteronomy 23:17 Heb. qedeshah, fem. of qadesh (next note)
- Deuteronomy 23:17 Heb. qadesh, one practicing sodomy and prostitution in religious rituals
- Deuteronomy 23:18 detestable
Genesis 38:16-18
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16 Then he turned to her by the way, and said, “Please let me come in to you”; for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law.
So she said, “What will you give me, that you may come in to me?”
17 And he said, (A)“I will send a young goat from the flock.”
So she said, (B)“Will you give me a pledge till you send it?”
18 Then he said, “What pledge shall I give you?”
So she said, (C)“Your signet and cord, and your staff that is in your hand.” Then he gave them to her, and went in to her, and she conceived by him.
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