Psalm 106:39
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- Psalm 106:39 became unclean
- Psalm 106:39 Were unfaithful
Ezekiel 20:18
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18 “But I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
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Numbers 15:39
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39 And you shall have the tassel, that you may look upon it and (A)remember all the commandments of the Lord and do them, and that you (B)may not (C)follow the harlotry to which your own heart and your own eyes are inclined,
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Leviticus 17:7
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7 They shall no more offer their sacrifices (A)to [a]demons, after whom they (B)have played the harlot. This shall be a statute forever for them throughout their generations.” ’
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- Leviticus 17:7 Having the form of a goat or satyr
Revelation 17:1-6
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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, 2 (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.”
3 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. 4 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. 5 And on her forehead a name was written:
(N)MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT,
THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS
OF THE EARTH.
6 I saw (O)the woman, drunk (P)with the blood of the saints and with the blood of (Q)the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.
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- Revelation 17:1 NU, M omit to me
- Revelation 17:4 M the fornication of the earth
Hosea 9:1
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Judgment of Israel’s Sin
9 Do(A) not rejoice, O Israel, with joy like other peoples,
For you have played the harlot against your God.
You have made love for (B)hire on every threshing floor.
Ezekiel 20:43
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43 And (A)there you shall remember your ways and all your doings with which you were defiled; and (B)you shall [a]loathe yourselves in your own sight because of all the evils that you have committed.
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- Ezekiel 20:43 Or despise
Ezekiel 20:30-31
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30 Therefore say to the house of Israel, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Are you defiling yourselves in the manner of your (A)fathers, and committing harlotry according to their (B)abominations? 31 For when you offer (C)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 (D)not be inquired of by you.
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Isaiah 59:3
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3 For (A)your hands are defiled with [a]blood,
And your fingers with iniquity;
Your lips have spoken lies,
Your tongue has muttered perversity.
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- Isaiah 59:3 bloodshed
Isaiah 24:5-6
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5 (A)The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants,
Because they have (B)transgressed the laws,
Changed the ordinance,
Broken the (C)everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore (D)the curse has devoured the earth,
And those who dwell in it are [a]desolate.
Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are (E)burned,
And few men are left.
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- Isaiah 24:6 Or held guilty
Ezekiel 23:3-49
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3 (A)They committed harlotry in Egypt,
They committed harlotry in (B)their youth;
Their breasts were there embraced,
Their virgin bosom was there pressed.
4 Their names: [a]Oholah the elder and [b]Oholibah (C)her sister;
(D)They were Mine,
And they bore sons and daughters.
As for their names,
Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem is Oholibah.
The Older Sister, Samaria
5 “Oholah played the harlot even though she was Mine;
And she lusted for her lovers, the neighboring (E)Assyrians,
6 Who were clothed in purple,
Captains and rulers,
All of them desirable young men,
Horsemen riding on horses.
7 Thus she committed her harlotry with them,
All of them choice men of Assyria;
And with all for whom she lusted,
With all their idols, she defiled herself.
8 She has never given up her harlotry brought (F)from Egypt,
For in her youth they had lain with her,
Pressed her virgin bosom,
And poured out their immorality upon her.
9 “Therefore I have delivered her
Into the hand of her lovers,
Into the hand of the (G)Assyrians,
For whom she lusted.
10 They uncovered her nakedness,
Took away her sons and daughters,
And slew her with the sword;
She became a byword among women,
For they had executed judgment on her.
The Younger Sister, Jerusalem
11 “Now (H)although her sister Oholibah saw this, (I)she became more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her harlotry more corrupt than her sister’s harlotry.
12 “She lusted for the neighboring (J)Assyrians,
(K)Captains and rulers,
Clothed most gorgeously,
Horsemen riding on horses,
All of them desirable young men.
13 Then I saw that she was defiled;
Both took the same way.
14 But she increased her harlotry;
She looked at men portrayed on the wall,
Images of (L)Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,
15 Girded with belts around their waists,
Flowing turbans on their heads,
All of them looking like captains,
In the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea,
The land of their nativity.
16 (M)As soon as her eyes saw them,
She lusted for them
And sent (N)messengers to them in Chaldea.
17 “Then the [c]Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love,
And they defiled her with their immorality;
So she was defiled by them, (O)and alienated herself from them.
18 She revealed her harlotry and uncovered her nakedness.
Then (P)I (Q)alienated Myself from her,
As I had alienated Myself from her sister.
19 “Yet she multiplied her harlotry
In calling to remembrance the days of her youth,
(R)When she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt.
20 For she lusted for her [d]paramours,
Whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys,
And whose issue is like the issue of horses.
21 Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth,
When the (S)Egyptians pressed your bosom
Because of your youthful breasts.
Judgment on Jerusalem
22 “Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord God:
(T)‘Behold, I will stir up your lovers against you,
From whom you have alienated yourself,
And I will bring them against you from every side:
23 The Babylonians,
All the Chaldeans,
(U)Pekod, Shoa, Koa,
(V)All the Assyrians with them,
All of them desirable young men,
Governors and rulers,
Captains and men of renown,
All of them riding on horses.
24 And they shall come against you
With chariots, wagons, and war-horses,
With a horde of people.
They shall array against you
Buckler, shield, and helmet all around.
‘I will delegate judgment to them,
And they shall judge you according to their judgments.
25 I will set My (W)jealousy against you,
And they shall deal furiously with you;
They shall remove your nose and your ears,
And your remnant shall fall by the sword;
They shall take your sons and your daughters,
And your remnant shall be devoured by fire.
26 (X)They shall also strip you of your clothes
And take away your beautiful jewelry.
27 ‘Thus (Y)I will make you cease your lewdness and your (Z)harlotry
Brought from the land of Egypt,
So that you will not lift your eyes to them,
Nor remember Egypt anymore.’
28 “For thus says the Lord God: ‘Surely I will deliver you into the hand of (AA)those you hate, into the hand of those (AB)from whom you alienated yourself. 29 (AC)They will deal hatefully with you, take away all you have worked for, and (AD)leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your harlotry shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your harlotry. 30 I will do these things to you because you have (AE)gone as a harlot after the Gentiles, because you have become defiled by their idols. 31 You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will put her (AF)cup in your hand.’
32 “Thus says the Lord God:
‘You shall drink of your sister’s cup,
The deep and wide one;
(AG)You shall be laughed to scorn
And held in derision;
It contains much.
33 You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow,
The cup of horror and desolation,
The cup of your sister Samaria.
34 You shall (AH)drink and drain it,
You shall break its [e]shards,
And tear at your own breasts;
For I have spoken,’
Says the Lord God.
35 “Therefore thus says the Lord God:
‘Because you (AI)have forgotten Me and (AJ)cast Me behind your back,
Therefore you shall bear the penalty
Of your lewdness and your harlotry.’ ”
Both Sisters Judged
36 The Lord also said to me: “Son of man, will you (AK)judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then (AL)declare to them their abominations. 37 For they have committed adultery, and (AM)blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and even sacrificed their sons (AN)whom they bore to Me, passing them through the fire, to devour them. 38 Moreover they have done this to Me: They have (AO)defiled My sanctuary on the same day and (AP)profaned My Sabbaths. 39 For after they had slain their children for their idols, on the same day they came into My sanctuary to profane it; and indeed (AQ)thus they have done in the midst of My house.
40 “Furthermore you sent for men to come from afar, (AR)to whom a messenger was sent; and there they came. And you (AS)washed yourself for them, (AT)painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments. 41 You sat on a stately (AU)couch, with a table prepared before it, (AV)on which you had set My incense and My oil. 42 The sound of a carefree multitude was with her, and [f]Sabeans were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort, who put bracelets on their [g]wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads. 43 Then I said concerning her who had grown old in adulteries, ‘Will they commit harlotry with her now, and she with them?’ 44 Yet they went in to her, as men go in to a woman who plays the harlot; thus they went in to Oholah and Oholibah, the lewd women. 45 But righteous men will (AW)judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and (AX)blood is on their hands.
46 “For thus says the Lord God: (AY)‘Bring up an assembly against them, give them up to trouble and plunder. 47 (AZ)The assembly shall stone them with stones and [h]execute them with their swords; (BA)they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn their houses with fire. 48 Thus (BB)I will cause lewdness to cease from the land, (BC)that all women may be taught not to practice your lewdness. 49 They shall repay you for your lewdness, and you shall (BD)pay for your idolatrous sins. (BE)Then you shall know that I am the Lord God.’ ”
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- Ezekiel 23:4 Lit. Her Own Tabernacle
- Ezekiel 23:4 Lit. My Tabernacle Is in Her
- Ezekiel 23:17 Lit. sons of Babel
- Ezekiel 23:20 Illicit lovers
- Ezekiel 23:34 Earthenware fragments
- Ezekiel 23:42 Or drunkards
- Ezekiel 23:42 Lit. hands
- Ezekiel 23:47 Lit. cut down
Ezekiel 16:15-63
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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. 17 You have also taken your beautiful jewelry from My gold and My silver, which I had given you, and made for yourself male images and played the harlot with them. 18 You took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set My oil and My incense before them. 19 Also (D)My food which I gave you—the pastry of fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you—you set it before them as [b]sweet incense; and so it was,” says the Lord God.
20 (E)“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, 21 that you have slain My children and offered them up to them by causing them to pass through the (F)fire? 22 And in all your abominations and acts of harlotry you did not remember the days of your (G)youth, (H)when you were naked and bare, struggling in your blood.
23 “Then it was so, after all your wickedness—‘Woe, woe to you!’ says the Lord God— 24 that (I)you also built for yourself a shrine, and (J)made a [c]high place for yourself in every street. 25 You built your high places (K)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. 26 You also committed harlotry with (L)the Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of harlotry to (M)provoke Me to anger.
27 “Behold, therefore, I stretched out My hand against you, diminished your [d]allotment, and gave you up to the will of those who hate you, (N)the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior. 28 You also played the harlot with the (O)Assyrians, because you were insatiable; indeed you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied. 29 Moreover you multiplied your acts of harlotry as far as the land of the trader, (P)Chaldea; and even then you were not satisfied.
30 “How degenerate is your heart!” says the Lord God, “seeing you do all these things, the deeds of a brazen harlot.
Jerusalem’s Adultery
31 (Q)“You erected your shrine at the head of every road, and built your [e]high place in every street. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned (R)payment. 32 You are an adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband. 33 Men make payment to all harlots, but (S)you made your payments to all your lovers, and [f]hired them to come to you from all around for your harlotry. 34 You are the opposite of other women in your harlotry, because no one solicited you to be a harlot. In that you gave payment but no payment was given you, therefore you are the opposite.”
Jerusalem’s Lovers Will Abuse Her
35 ‘Now then, O harlot, hear the word of the Lord! 36 Thus says the Lord God: “Because your filthiness was poured out and your nakedness uncovered in your harlotry with your lovers, and with all your abominable idols, and because of (T)the blood of your children which you gave to them, 37 surely, therefore, (U)I will gather all your lovers with whom you took pleasure, all those you loved, and all those you hated; I will gather them from all around against you and will uncover your nakedness to them, that they may see all your nakedness. 38 And I will judge you as (V)women who break wedlock or (W)shed blood are judged; I will bring blood upon you in fury and jealousy. 39 I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your shrines and break down (X)your [g]high places. (Y)They shall also strip you of your clothes, take your beautiful jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.
40 (Z)“They shall also bring up an assembly against you, (AA)and they shall stone you with stones and thrust you through with their swords. 41 They shall (AB)burn your houses with fire, and (AC)execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will make you (AD)cease playing the harlot, and you shall no longer hire lovers. 42 So (AE)I will lay to rest My fury toward you, and My jealousy shall depart from you. I will be quiet, and be angry no more. 43 Because (AF)you did not remember the days of your youth, but [h]agitated Me with all these things, surely (AG)I will also recompense your [i]deeds on your own head,” says the Lord God. “And you shall not commit lewdness in addition to all your abominations.
More Wicked than Samaria and Sodom
44 “Indeed everyone who quotes proverbs will use this proverb against you: ‘Like mother, like daughter!’ 45 You are your mother’s daughter, [j]loathing husband and children; and you are the (AH)sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children; (AI)your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
46 “Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells with her daughters to the north of you; and (AJ)your younger sister, who dwells to the south of you, is Sodom and her daughters. 47 You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, (AK)you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.
48 “As I live,” says the Lord God, “neither (AL)your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done. 49 Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, (AM)fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. 50 And they were haughty and (AN)committed abomination before Me; therefore (AO)I took them away as [k]I saw fit.
51 “Samaria did not commit (AP)half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and (AQ)have justified your sisters by all the abominations which you have done. 52 You who judged your sisters, bear your own shame also, because the sins which you committed were more abominable than theirs; they are more righteous than you. Yes, be disgraced also, and bear your own shame, because you justified your sisters.
53 (AR)“When I bring back their captives, the captives of Sodom and her daughters, and the captives of Samaria and her daughters, then I will also bring back (AS)the captives of your captivity among them, 54 that you may bear your own shame and be disgraced by all that you did when (AT)you comforted them. 55 When your sisters, Sodom and her daughters, return to their former state, and Samaria and her daughters return to their former state, then you and your daughters will return to your former state. 56 For your sister Sodom was not a byword in your mouth in the days of your pride, 57 before your wickedness was uncovered. It was like the time of the (AU)reproach of the daughters of [l]Syria and all those around her, and of (AV)the daughters of the Philistines, who despise you everywhere. 58 (AW)You have paid for your lewdness and your abominations,” says the Lord. 59 For thus says the Lord God: “I will deal with you as you have done, who (AX)despised (AY)the oath by breaking the covenant.
An Everlasting Covenant
60 “Nevertheless I will (AZ)remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish (BA)an everlasting covenant with you. 61 Then (BB)you will remember your ways and be ashamed, when you receive your older and your younger sisters; for I will give them to you for (BC)daughters, (BD)but not because of My covenant with you. 62 (BE)And I will establish My covenant with you. Then you shall know that I am the Lord, 63 that you may (BF)remember and be ashamed, (BG)and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I provide you an atonement for all you have done,” says the Lord God.’ ”
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- Ezekiel 16:16 Places for pagan worship
- Ezekiel 16:19 Or a sweet aroma
- Ezekiel 16:24 Place for pagan worship
- Ezekiel 16:27 Allowance of food
- Ezekiel 16:31 Place for pagan worship
- Ezekiel 16:33 Or bribed
- Ezekiel 16:39 Places for pagan worship
- Ezekiel 16:43 So with LXX, Syr., Tg., Vg.; MT were agitated with Me
- Ezekiel 16:43 Lit. way
- Ezekiel 16:45 Or despising
- Ezekiel 16:50 Vg. you saw; LXX he saw; Tg. as was revealed to Me
- Ezekiel 16:57 Heb. Aram; so with MT, LXX, Tg., Vg.; many Heb. mss., Syr. Edom
Jeremiah 3:6-9
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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. 9 So it came to pass, through her casual harlotry, that she (H)defiled the land and committed adultery with (I)stones and trees.
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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
Leviticus 20:5-6
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5 then I will set My face against that man and against his family; and I will cut him off from his people, and all who prostitute themselves with him to commit harlotry with Molech.
6 ‘And (A)the person who turns to mediums and familiar spirits, to prostitute himself with them, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.
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Exodus 34:16
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16 and you take of (A)his daughters for your sons, and his daughters (B)play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.
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