Ezekiel 16:13
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13 You were adorned with gold and silver, while your clothing was of fine linen, rich fabric,[a] and embroidered cloth. You had choice flour and honey and oil for food. You grew exceedingly beautiful, fit to be a queen.(A)
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- 16.13 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Psalm 50:2
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2 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God shines forth.(A)
1 Kings 4:21
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21 [a]Solomon was sovereign over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, even to the border of Egypt; they brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.[b](A)]]
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Deuteronomy 32:13-14
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13 He set him atop the heights of the land
and fed him with[a] produce of the field;
he nursed him with honey from the crags,
with oil from flinty rock,(A)
14 curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,
with fat of lambs and rams,
Bashan bulls and goats,
together with the choicest wheat—
you drank fine wine from the blood of grapes.(B)
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- 32.13 Sam Gk Syr Tg: MT he ate
Psalm 48:2
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2 beautiful in elevation,
is the joy of all the earth,
Mount Zion, in the far north,
the city of the great King.(A)
Psalm 45:13-14
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13 with all kinds of wealth.
The princess is decked in her chamber with gold-woven robes;[a](A)
14 in many-colored robes she is led to the king;
behind her the virgins, her companions, follow.(B)
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- 45.13 Or people.
All glorious is the princess within, gold embroidery is her clothing
Hosea 2:5
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5 For their mother has prostituted herself;
she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For she said, “I will go after my lovers;
they give me my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.”(A)
Ezekiel 16:19
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19 Also my bread that I gave you—I fed you with choice flour and oil and honey—you set it before them as a pleasing odor, and so it was, says the Lord God.
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Ezekiel 16:14-15
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14 Your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of my splendor that I had bestowed on you, says the Lord God.
15 But you trusted in your beauty and prostituted yourself because of your fame and lavished your prostitutions on any passer-by.[a](A)
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- 16.15 Heb adds Let it be his
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