Ezekiel 23:4
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4 Oholah was the name of the older and Oholibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.(A)
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Ezekiel 16:8
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8 I passed by you again and looked on you; you were at the age for love. I spread the edge of my cloak over you and covered your nakedness: I pledged myself to you and entered into a covenant with you, says the Lord God, and you became mine.(A)
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Romans 7:4
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4 In the same way, my brothers and sisters, you have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.(A)
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John 4:22
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22 You[a] worship what you[b] do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.(A)
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Ezekiel 16:40
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40 They shall bring up a mob against you, and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.(A)
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Ezekiel 16:20
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20 You took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. As if your prostitutions were not enough!(A)
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Jeremiah 2:2-3
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2 Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord:
I remember the devotion of your youth,
your love as a bride,
how you followed me in the wilderness,
in a land not sown.(A)
3 Israel was holy to the Lord,
the first fruits of his harvest.
All who ate of it were held guilty;
disaster came upon them,
says the Lord.(B)
Psalm 132:13-14
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13 For the Lord has chosen Zion;
he has desired it for his habitation:(A)
14 “This is my resting place forever;
here I will reside, for I have desired it.
Psalm 76:2
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2 His abode has been established in Salem,
his dwelling place in Zion.(A)
Psalm 45:11-16
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11 and the king will desire your beauty.
Since he is your lord, bow to him;(A)
12 Daughter Tyre will seek your favor with gifts,
the richest of the people(B) 13 with all kinds of wealth.
The princess is decked in her chamber with gold-woven robes;[a](C)
14 in many-colored robes she is led to the king;
behind her the virgins, her companions, follow.(D)
15 With joy and gladness they are led along
as they enter the palace of the king.
16 In the place of ancestors you, O king,[b] shall have sons;
you will make them princes in all the earth.(E)
1 Kings 12:26-33
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26 Then Jeroboam said to himself, “Now the kingdom may well revert to the house of David. 27 If this people continues to go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, the heart of this people will turn again to their master, King Rehoboam of Judah; they will kill me and return to King Rehoboam of Judah.”(A) 28 So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. He said to the people,[a] “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Here are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”(B) 29 He set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.(C) 30 And this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one at Bethel and before the other as far as Dan.[b](D) 31 He also made houses[c] on high places and appointed priests from among all the people who were not Levites.(E) 32 Jeroboam appointed a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like the festival that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; so he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. And he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.(F) 33 He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had selected on his own; he appointed a festival for the people of Israel, and he went up to the altar to offer incense.(G)
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1 Kings 12:20
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First Dynasty: Jeroboam Reigns over Israel
20 When all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was no one who followed the house of David except the tribe of Judah alone.(A)
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1 Kings 8:29
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29 that your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you said, ‘My name shall be there,’ that you may heed the prayer that your servant prays toward this place.(A)
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Exodus 19:5-6
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5 Now, therefore, if you obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession out of all the peoples. Indeed, the whole earth is mine,(A) 6 but you shall be for me a priestly kingdom and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the Israelites.”(B)
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