Micah 1:7

New International Version

⁷All her idols^(A) will be broken to pieces;^(B)
    all her temple gifts will be burned with fire;
    I will destroy all her images.^(C)
Since she gathered her gifts from the wages of prostitutes,^(D)
    as the wages of prostitutes they will again be used.”

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Micah 1:7

King James Version

⁷And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.

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Deuteronomy 23:18

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¹⁸You must not bring the earnings of a female prostitute or of a male prostitute^[a] into the house of the Lord your God to pay any vow, because the Lord your God detests them both.^(A)

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Footnotes

Deuteronomy 23:18 Hebrew of a dog

Deuteronomy 23:18

King James Version

¹⁸Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God.

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Hosea 2:12

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¹²I will ruin her vines^(A) and her fig trees,^(B)
which she said were her pay from her lovers;^(C)
I will make them a thicket,^(D)
and wild animals will devour them.^(E)

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Hosea 2:12

King James Version

¹²And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

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Revelation 18:3

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³For all the nations have drunk
the maddening wine of her adulteries.^(A)
The kings of the earth committed adultery with her,^(B)
and the merchants of the earth grew rich^(C) from her excessive luxuries.”^(D)

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Revelation 18:3

King James Version

³For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

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Hosea 10:5-6

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⁵The people who live in Samaria fear
    for the calf-idol^(A) of Beth Aven.^[a]^(B)
Its people will mourn over it,
    and so will its idolatrous priests,^(C)
those who had rejoiced over its splendor,
    because it is taken from them into exile.^(D)
⁶It will be carried to Assyria^(E)
    as tribute^(F) for the great king.^(G)
Ephraim will be disgraced;^(H)
    Israel will be ashamed^(I) of its foreign alliances.

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Footnotes

Hosea 10:5 Beth Aven means house of wickedness (a derogatory name for Bethel, which means house of God).

Hosea 10:5-6

King James Version

⁵The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.

⁶It shall be also carried unto Assyria for a present to king Jareb: Ephraim shall receive shame, and Israel shall be ashamed of his own counsel.

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Hosea 8:6

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⁶    They are from Israel!
This calf—a metalworker has made it;
    it is not God.^(A)
It will be broken in pieces,
    that calf^(B) of Samaria.^(C)

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Hosea 8:6

King James Version

⁶For from Israel was it also: the workman made it; therefore it is not God: but the calf of Samaria shall be broken in pieces.

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Revelation 18:12-13

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¹²cargoes of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls; fine linen, purple, silk and scarlet cloth; every sort of citron wood, and articles of every kind made of ivory, costly wood, bronze, iron and marble;^(A) ¹³cargoes of cinnamon and spice, of incense, myrrh and frankincense, of wine and olive oil, of fine flour and wheat; cattle and sheep; horses and carriages; and human beings sold as slaves.^(B)

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Revelation 18:12-13

King James Version

¹²The merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stones, and of pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and all manner vessels of ivory, and all manner vessels of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble,

¹³And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.

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Revelation 18:9

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Threefold Woe Over Babylon’s Fall

⁹“When the kings of the earth who committed adultery with her^(A) and shared her luxury^(B) see the smoke of her burning,^(C) they will weep and mourn over her.^(D)

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Revelation 18:9

King James Version

⁹And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,

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Joel 3:3

New International Version

³They cast lots^(A) for my people
and traded boys for prostitutes;
they sold girls for wine^(B) to drink.

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Joel 3:3

King James Version

³And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

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Hosea 2:5

New International Version

⁵Their mother has been unfaithful
    and has conceived them in disgrace.
She said, ‘I will go after my lovers,^(A)
    who give me my food and my water,
    my wool and my linen, my olive oil and my drink.’^(B)

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Hosea 2:5

King James Version

⁵For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

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Jeremiah 44:17-18

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¹⁷We will certainly do everything we said we would:^(A) We will burn incense^(B) to the Queen of Heaven^(C) and will pour out drink offerings to her just as we and our ancestors, our kings and our officials^(D) did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem.^(E) At that time we had plenty of food^(F) and were well off and suffered no harm.^(G) ¹⁸But ever since we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings^(H) to her, we have had nothing and have been perishing by sword and famine.^(I)”

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Jeremiah 44:17-18

King James Version

¹⁷But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.

¹⁸But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.

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Isaiah 27:9

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⁹By this, then, will Jacob’s guilt be atoned^(A) for,
    and this will be the full fruit of the removal of his sin:^(B)
When he makes all the altar stones^(C)
    to be like limestone crushed to pieces,
no Asherah poles^[a]^(D) or incense altars^(E)
    will be left standing.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 27:9 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah

Isaiah 27:9

King James Version

⁹By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

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2 Chronicles 34:6-7

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⁶In the towns of Manasseh, Ephraim and Simeon, as far as Naphtali, and in the ruins around them, ⁷he tore down the altars and the Asherah poles and crushed the idols to powder^(A) and cut to pieces all the incense altars throughout Israel. Then he went back to Jerusalem.

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2 Chronicles 34:6-7

King James Version

⁶And so did he in the cities of Manasseh, and Ephraim, and Simeon, even unto Naphtali, with their mattocks round about.

⁷And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

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