Jeremiah 2:20
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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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- Jeremiah 2:20 Kt. serve
Deuteronomy 12:2
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2 (A)You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their gods, (B)on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.
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Leviticus 26:13
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13 I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves;
I have broken the bands of your (A)yoke and made you walk [a]upright.
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- Leviticus 26:13 erect
Hosea 3:3
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3 And I said to her, “You shall (A)stay with me many days; you shall not play the harlot, nor shall you have a man—so, too, will I be toward you.”
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Jeremiah 30:8
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8 ‘For it shall come to pass in that day,’
Says the Lord of hosts,
‘That I will break his yoke from your neck,
And will burst your bonds;
Foreigners shall no more enslave them.
Jeremiah 17:2
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2 While their children remember
Their altars and their (A)wooden[a] images
By the green trees on the high hills.
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- Jeremiah 17:2 Heb. Asherim, Canaanite deities
Isaiah 1:21
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The Degenerate City
21 (A)How the faithful city has become a [a]harlot!
It was full of justice;
Righteousness lodged in it,
But now (B)murderers.
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- Isaiah 1:21 Unfaithful
Nahum 1:13
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13 For now I will break off his yoke from you,
And burst your bonds apart.”
Hosea 2:5
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5 For their mother has played the harlot;
She who conceived them has behaved shamefully.
For she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
(A)Who give me my bread and my water,
My wool and my linen,
My oil and my drink.’
Ezekiel 23:5
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The Older Sister, Samaria
5 “Oholah played the harlot even though she was Mine;
And she lusted for her lovers, the neighboring (A)Assyrians,
Ezekiel 20:28
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28 When I brought them into the land concerning which I had raised My hand in an oath to give them, and (A)they saw all the high hills and all the thick trees, there they offered their sacrifices and provoked Me with their offerings. There they also sent up their (B)sweet aroma and poured out their drink offerings.
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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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Ezekiel 16:31
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Jerusalem’s Adultery
31 (A)“You erected your shrine at the head of every road, and built your [a]high place in every street. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned (B)payment.
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- Ezekiel 16:31 Place for pagan worship
Ezekiel 16:28
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28 You also played the harlot with the (A)Assyrians, because you were insatiable; indeed you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied.
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Ezekiel 16:24-25
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24 that (A)you also built for yourself a shrine, and (B)made a [a]high place for yourself in every street. 25 You built your high places (C)at the head of every road, and made your beauty to be abhorred. You offered yourself to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your acts of harlotry.
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- Ezekiel 16:24 Place for pagan worship
Ezekiel 16:15-16
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Jerusalem’s Harlotry
15 (A)“But you trusted in your own beauty, (B)played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your harlotry on everyone passing by who would have it. 16 (C)You took some of your garments and adorned multicolored [a]high places for yourself, and played the harlot on them. Such things should not happen, nor be.
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- Ezekiel 16:16 Places for pagan worship
Jeremiah 3:6-8
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A Call to Repentance
6 The Lord said also to me in the days of Josiah the king: “Have you seen what (A)backsliding Israel has done? She has (B)gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there played the harlot. 7 (C)And I said, after she had done all these things, ‘Return to Me.’ But she did not return. And her treacherous (D)sister Judah saw it. 8 Then I saw that (E)for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had (F)put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; (G)yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.
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Jeremiah 3:1-2
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Israel Is Shameless
3 “They say, ‘If a man divorces his wife,
And she goes from him
And becomes another man’s,
(A)May he return to her again?’
Would not that (B)land be greatly polluted?
But you have (C)played the harlot with many lovers;
(D)Yet return to Me,” says the Lord.
2 “Lift up your eyes to (E)the desolate heights and see:
Where have you not [a]lain with men?
(F)By the road you have sat for them
Like an Arabian in the wilderness;
(G)And you have polluted the land
With your harlotries and your wickedness.
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- Jeremiah 3:2 Kt. been violated
Isaiah 57:5-7
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5 Inflaming yourselves with gods (A)under every green tree,
(B)Slaying the children in the valleys,
Under the clefts of the rocks?
6 Among the smooth (C)stones of the stream
Is your portion;
They, they, are your lot!
Even to them you have poured a drink offering,
You have offered a grain offering.
Should I receive comfort in (D)these?
7 “On(E) a lofty and high mountain
You have set (F)your bed;
Even there you went up
To offer sacrifice.
Isaiah 14:25
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25 That I will break the (A)Assyrian in My land,
And on My mountains tread him underfoot.
Then (B)his yoke shall be removed from them,
And his burden removed from their shoulders.
Isaiah 10:27
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27 It shall come to pass in that day
That his burden will be taken away from your shoulder,
And his yoke from your neck,
And the yoke will be destroyed because of (A)the anointing oil.
Isaiah 9:4
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4 For You have broken the yoke of his burden
And the staff of his shoulder,
The rod of his oppressor,
As in the day of (A)Midian.
Psalm 78:58
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58 (A)For they provoked Him to anger with their (B)high places,
And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.
1 Kings 12:32
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32 Jeroboam [a]ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like (A)the feast that was in Judah, and offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did at Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made. (B)And at Bethel he installed the priests of the high places which he had made.
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- 1 Kings 12:32 instituted
1 Samuel 12:10
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10 Then they cried out to the Lord, and said, (A)‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord (B)and served the Baals and [a]Ashtoreths; but now deliver us from the hand of our enemies, and we will serve You.’
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- 1 Samuel 12:10 Images of Canaanite goddesses
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