Inflaming yourselves with gods (A)under every green tree,
(B)Slaying the children in the valleys,
Under the clefts of the rocks?

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20 (A)“Moreover you took your sons and your daughters, whom you bore to Me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your acts of harlotry a small matter,

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29 For [a]they shall be ashamed of the [b]terebinth trees
Which you have desired;
And you shall be embarrassed because of the gardens
Which you have chosen.

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  1. Isaiah 1:29 So with MT, LXX, Vg.; some Heb. mss., Tg. you
  2. Isaiah 1:29 Sites of pagan worship

But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel; indeed (A)he made his son pass through the fire, according to the (B)abominations of the nations whom the Lord had cast out from before the children of Israel. And he sacrificed and burned incense on the (C)high places, (D)on the hills, and under every green tree.

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31 And they have built the (A)high places of Tophet, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to (B)burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, (C)which I did not command, nor did it come into My heart.

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13 (A)Only acknowledge your iniquity,
That you have transgressed against the Lord your God,
And have (B)scattered your [a]charms
To (C)alien deities (D)under every green tree,
And you have not obeyed My voice,’ says the Lord.

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  1. Jeremiah 3:13 Lit. ways

20 “For of old I have (A)broken your yoke and burst your bonds;
And (B)you said, ‘I will not [a]transgress,’
When (C)on every high hill and under every green tree
You lay down, (D)playing the harlot.

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  1. Jeremiah 2:20 Kt. serve

10 And he defiled (A)Topheth, which is in (B)the Valley of the [a]Son of Hinnom, (C)that no man might make his son or his daughter (D)pass through the fire to Molech.

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  1. 2 Kings 23:10 Kt. Sons

21 And you shall not let any of your descendants (A)pass through (B)the fire to (C)Molech, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.

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For all the nations (A)have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, (B)and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the [a]abundance of her luxury.”

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  1. Revelation 18:3 Lit. strengths

The Scarlet Woman and the Scarlet Beast

17 Then (A)one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying [a]to me, “Come, (B)I will show you the judgment of (C)the great harlot (D)who sits on many waters, (E)with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and (F)the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication.”

So he carried me away in the Spirit (G)into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting (H)on a scarlet beast which was full of (I)names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. The woman (J)was arrayed in purple and scarlet, (K)and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, (L)having in her hand a golden cup (M)full of abominations and the filthiness of [b]her fornication. And on her forehead a name was written:

(N)MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS
OF THE EARTH.

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  1. Revelation 17:1 NU, M omit to me
  2. Revelation 17:4 M the fornication of the earth

They [a]pant after the dust of the earth which is on the head of the poor,
And (A)pervert the way of the humble.
(B)A man and his father go in to the same girl,
(C)To defile My holy name.
They lie down (D)by every altar on clothes (E)taken in pledge,
And drink the wine of [b]the condemned in the house of their god.

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  1. Amos 2:7 Or trample on
  2. Amos 2:8 Or those punished by fines

“They(A) are all adulterers.
Like an oven heated by a baker—
He ceases stirring the fire after kneading the dough,
Until it is leavened.
In the day of our king
Princes have made him sick, [a]inflamed with (B)wine;
He stretched out his hand with scoffers.
They prepare their heart like an oven,
While they lie in wait;
[b]Their baker sleeps all night;
In the morning it burns like a flaming fire.
They are all hot, like an oven,
And have devoured their judges;
All their kings have fallen.
(C)None among them calls upon Me.

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  1. Hosea 7:5 Lit. with the heat of
  2. Hosea 7:6 So with MT, Vg.; Syr., Tg. Their anger; LXX Ephraim

The Idolatry of Israel

11 “Harlotry, wine, and new wine (A)enslave the heart.
12 My people ask counsel from their (B)wooden idols,
And their [a]staff informs them.
For (C)the spirit of harlotry has caused them to stray,
And they have played the harlot against their God.
13 (D)They offer sacrifices on the mountaintops,
And burn incense on the hills,
Under oaks, poplars, and terebinths,
Because their shade is good.
(E)Therefore your daughters commit harlotry,
And your brides commit adultery.

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  1. Hosea 4:12 Diviner’s rod

31 For when you offer (A)your gifts and make your sons pass through the fire, you defile yourselves with all your idols, even to this day. So shall I be inquired of by you, O house of Israel? As I live,” says the Lord God, “I will (B)not be inquired of by you.

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26 and I pronounced them unclean because of their ritual gifts, in that they caused all [a]their firstborn to pass (A)through the fire, that I might make them desolate and that they (B)might know that I am the Lord.” ’

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  1. Ezekiel 20:26 Lit. that open the womb

13 Then you shall know that I am the Lord, when their slain are among their idols all around their altars, (A)on every high hill, (B)on all the mountaintops, (C)under every green tree, and under every thick oak, wherever they offered sweet incense to all their idols.

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(A)Babylon was a golden cup in the Lord’s hand,
That made all the earth drunk.
(B)The nations drank her wine;
Therefore the nations (C)are deranged.

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38 (A)A [a]drought is against her waters, and they will be dried up.
For it is the land of carved images,
And they are insane with their idols.

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  1. Jeremiah 50:38 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; Syr. sword; LXX omits A drought is

35 And they built the high places of Baal which are in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to (A)cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire to (B)Molech, (C)which I did not command them, nor did it come into My mind that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.’

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