Jeremiah 2:20
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20 “For long ago I (A)broke your yoke
and burst your bonds;
but you said, (B)‘I will not serve.’
Yes, (C)on every high hill
and under every green tree
you bowed down (D)like a whore.
Deuteronomy 12:2
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2 (A)You shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom 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 (A)I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that you should not be their slaves. (B)And I have broken the bars of your yoke and made you walk erect.
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Jeremiah 17:2
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2 while (A)their children remember their altars and their (B)Asherim, (C)beside every green tree and on the high hills,
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Hosea 3:3
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3 And I said to her, “You must (A)dwell as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you.”
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Jeremiah 30:8
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8 “And it shall come to pass in that day, declares the Lord of hosts, that I will (A)break his (B)yoke from off your neck, and I will (C)burst your bonds, (D)and foreigners shall no more make a servant of him.[a]
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- Jeremiah 30:8 Or serve him
Isaiah 1:21
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The Unfaithful City
21 How the faithful city
(A)has become a whore,[a]
(B)she who was full of justice!
Righteousness lodged in her,
but now murderers.
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- Isaiah 1:21 Or become unchaste
Nahum 1:13
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13 And now (A)I will break his yoke from off you
and will burst your bonds apart.”
Hosea 2:5
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5 For (A)their mother has played the whore;
she who conceived them has acted shamefully.
For (B)she said, ‘I will go after my lovers,
who (C)give me my bread and my water,
my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.’
Ezekiel 23:5
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5 “Oholah played the whore (A)while she was mine, and (B)she lusted after her lovers (C)the Assyrians, warriors
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Ezekiel 20:28
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28 For when I had brought them into the land that (A)I swore to give them, then wherever they saw (B)any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and there they presented (C)the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing aromas, and there they poured out their drink offerings.
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Ezekiel 16:31
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31 building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, (A)because you scorned payment.
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Ezekiel 16:28
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28 (A)You played the whore also (B)with the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied; yes, you played the whore with them, and still you were not satisfied.
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Ezekiel 16:24-25
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24 you built yourself (A)a vaulted chamber and made yourself a lofty place in every square. 25 At the head of every street (B)you built your lofty place and made (C)your beauty an abomination, (D)offering yourself[a] to any passerby and multiplying your whoring.
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- Ezekiel 16:25 Hebrew spreading your legs
Ezekiel 16:15-16
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15 (A)“But you trusted in your beauty (B)and played the whore[a] because of your renown (C)and lavished your whorings[b] on any passerby; your beauty[c] became his. 16 You took some of your garments and made for yourself colorful shrines, and on them played the whore. The like has never been, nor ever shall be.[d]
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- Ezekiel 16:15 Or were unfaithful; also verses 16, 17, 26, 28
- Ezekiel 16:15 Or unfaithfulness; also verses 20, 22, 25, 26, 29, 33, 34, 36
- Ezekiel 16:15 Hebrew it
- Ezekiel 16:16 The meaning of this Hebrew sentence is uncertain
Jeremiah 3:6-8
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Faithless Israel Called to Repentance
6 The Lord said to me in the days of (A)King Josiah: “Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, (B)how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there (C)played the whore? 7 And I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me,’ but she did not return, and her treacherous (D)sister Judah saw it. 8 She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, (E)I had sent her away with (F)a decree of divorce. (G)Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went (H)and played the whore.
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Jeremiah 3:1-2
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3 (A)“If[a] a man divorces his wife
and she goes from him
and becomes another man's wife,
will he return to her?
(B)Would not that land be greatly polluted?
(C)You have played the whore with many lovers;
and would you return to me?
declares the Lord.
2 Lift up your eyes to (D)the bare heights, and see!
Where have you not been ravished?
(E)By the waysides you have sat awaiting lovers
like an Arab in the wilderness.
(F)You have polluted the land
with your vile whoredom.
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- Jeremiah 3:1 Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew Saying, “If
Isaiah 57:5-7
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5 you who burn with lust among (A)the oaks,[a]
under every green tree,
(B)who slaughter your children in the valleys,
under the clefts of the rocks?
6 Among the smooth stones of (C)the valley is your portion;
they, they, are your lot;
to them you have poured out a drink offering,
you have brought a grain offering.
Shall I relent for these things?
7 (D)On a high and lofty mountain
you have set your bed,
and there you went up to offer sacrifice.
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- Isaiah 57:5 Or among the terebinths
Isaiah 14:25
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25 that (A)I will break the Assyrian in my land,
and on my mountains trample him underfoot;
and (B)his yoke shall depart from them,
and (C)his burden from their shoulder.”
Isaiah 10:27
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27 And in that day (A)his burden will depart from your shoulder, and (B)his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat.”[a]
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- Isaiah 10:27 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
Isaiah 9:4
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4 (A)For the yoke of his burden,
(B)and the staff for his shoulder,
the rod of his oppressor,
you have broken as (C)on the day of Midian.
Psalm 78:58
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58 For they (A)provoked him to anger with their (B)high places;
they (C)moved him to jealousy with their (D)idols.
1 Kings 12:32
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32 And Jeroboam appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like (A)the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he made. And he placed in Bethel (B)the priests of the high places that he had made.
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1 Samuel 12:10
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10 (A)And they cried out to the Lord and said, ‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord (B)and have served the Baals and the Ashtaroth. But now (C)deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, that we may serve you.’
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