Ezekiel 16
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Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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"Son of man, a cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,
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"and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: "Your birth b and your nativity are from the land of Canaan; c your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
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"As for your nativity, d on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water to cleanse you; you were not rubbed with salt nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.
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"No eye pitied you, to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you; but you were thrown out into the open field, when you yourself were loathed on the day you were born.
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"And when I passed by you and saw you struggling in your own blood, I said to you in your blood, 'Live!' Yes, I said to you in your blood, 'Live!'
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e "I made you thrive like a plant in the field; and you grew, matured, and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed, your hair grew, but you were naked and bare.
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"When I passed by you again and looked upon you, indeed your time was the time of love; f so I spread My wing over you and covered your nakedness. Yes, I g swore an oath to you and entered into a h covenant with you, and i you became Mine," says the Lord GOD.
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"Then I washed you in water; yes, I thoroughly washed off your blood, and I anointed you with oil.
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"I clothed you in embroidered cloth and gave you sandals of badger skin; I clothed you with fine linen and covered you with silk.
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"I adorned you with ornaments, j put bracelets on your wrists, k and a chain on your neck.
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"And I put a jewel in your nose, earrings in your ears, and a beautiful crown on your head.
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"Thus you were adorned with gold and silver, and your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered cloth. l You ate pastry of fine flour, honey, and oil. You were exceedingly m beautiful, and succeeded to royalty.
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n "Your fame went out among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through My splendor which I had bestowed on you," says the Lord GOD.
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o "But you trusted in your own beauty, p played the harlot because of your fame, and poured out your harlotry on everyone passing by who would have it.
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q "You took some of your garments and adorned multicolored high places for yourself, and played the harlot on them. Such things should not happen, nor be.
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"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.
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"You took your embroidered garments and covered them, and you set My oil and My incense before them.
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"Also r My food which I gave you - the pastry of fine flour, oil, and honey which I fed you - you set it before them as sweet incense; and so it was," says the Lord GOD.
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s "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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"that you have slain My children and offered them up to them by causing them to pass through the t fire?
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"And in all your abominations and acts of harlotry you did not remember the days of your u youth, v when you were naked and bare, struggling in your blood.
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"Then it was so, after all your wickedness - 'Woe, woe to you!' says the Lord GOD -
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"that w you also built for yourself a shrine, and x made a high place for yourself in every street.
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"You built your high places y 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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"You also committed harlotry with z the Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of harlotry to a provoke Me to anger.
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"Behold, therefore, I stretched out My hand against you, diminished your allotment, and gave you up to the will of those who hate you, b the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.
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"You also played the harlot with the c Assyrians, because you were insatiable; indeed you played the harlot with them and still were not satisfied.
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"Moreover you multiplied your acts of harlotry as far as the land of the trader, d Chaldea; and even then you were not satisfied.
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"How degenerate is your heart!" says the Lord GOD, "seeing you do all these things, the deeds of a brazen harlot.
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e "You erected your shrine at the head of every road, and built your high place in every street. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned f payment.
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"You are an adulterous wife, who takes strangers instead of her husband.
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"Men make payment to all harlots, but g you made your payments to all your lovers, and hired them to come to you from all around for your harlotry.
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"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."
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'Now then, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD!
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'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 h the blood of your children which you gave to them,
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"surely, therefore, i 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.
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"And I will judge you as j women who break wedlock or k shed blood are judged; I will bring blood upon you in fury and jealousy.
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"I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your shrines and break down l your high places. m They shall also strip you of your clothes, take your beautiful jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.
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n "They shall also bring up an assembly against you, o and they shall stone you with stones and thrust you through with their swords.
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"They shall p burn your houses with fire, and q execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will make you r cease playing the harlot, and you shall no longer hire lovers.
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"So s 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.
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"Because t you did not remember the days of your youth, but agitated Me with all these things, surely u I will also recompense your deeds on your own head," says the Lord GOD. "And you shall not commit lewdness in addition to all your abominations.
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"Indeed everyone who quotes proverbs will use this proverb against you: 'Like mother, like daughter!'
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"You are your mother's daughter, loathing husband and children; and you are the v sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children; w your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
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"Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells with her daughters to the north of you; and x your younger sister, who dwells to the south of you, is Sodom and her daughters.
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"You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, y you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.
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"As I live," says the Lord GOD, "neither z your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done.
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"Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, a fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
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"And they were haughty and b committed abomination before Me; therefore c I took them away as I saw fit.
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"Samaria did not commit d half of your sins; but you have multiplied your abominations more than they, and e have justified your sisters by all the abominations which you have done.
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"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.
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f "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 g the captives of your captivity among them,
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"that you may bear your own shame and be disgraced by all that you did when h you comforted them.
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"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.
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"For your sister Sodom was not a byword in your mouth in the days of your pride,
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"before your wickedness was uncovered. It was like the time of the i reproach of the daughters of Syria and all those around her, and of j the daughters of the Philistines, who despise you everywhere.
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k "You have paid for your lewdness and your abominations," says the LORD.
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'For thus says the Lord GOD: "I will deal with you as you have done, who l despised m the oath by breaking the covenant.
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"Nevertheless I will n remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish o an everlasting covenant with you.
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"Then p 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 q daughters, r but not because of My covenant with you.
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s "And I will establish My covenant with you. Then you shall know that I am the LORD,
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"that you may t remember and be ashamed, u 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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Isaiah 58:1
Cry aloud, spare not; Lift up your voice like a trumpet; Tell My people their transgression, And the house of Jacob their sins.
Ezekiel 20:4
Will you judge them, son of man, will you judge them? Then make known to them the abominations of their fathers.
Ezekiel 22:2
Now, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Yes, show her all her abominations!
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Ezekiel 21:30
Return it to its sheath. I will judge you In the place where you were created, In the land of your nativity.
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Genesis 15:16
"But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."
Deuteronomy 7:1
When the LORD your God brings you into the land which you go to possess, and has cast out many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you.
Joshua 24:15
"And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."
Ezekiel 16:45
You are your mother's daughter, loathing husband and children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children; your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
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Hosea 2:3
Lest I strip her naked And expose her, as in the day she was born, And make her like a wilderness, And set her like a dry land, And slay her with thirst.
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Exodus 1:7
But the children of Israel were fruitful and increased abundantly, multiplied and grew exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.
Deuteronomy 1:10
The LORD your God has multiplied you, and here you are today, as the stars of heaven in multitude.
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Ruth 3:9
And he said, "Who are you?" So she answered, "I am Ruth, your maidservant. Take your maidservant under your wing, for you are a close relative.
Jeremiah 2:2
Go and cry in the hearing of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says the LORD: "I remember you, The kindness of your youth, The love of your betrothal, When you went after Me in the wilderness, In a land not sown.
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Genesis 22:16 - 18
And said: "By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son -
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Exodus 24:6 - 8
And Moses took half the blood and put it in basins, and half the blood he sprinkled on the altar.
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Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is Mine.
Jeremiah 2:2
Go and cry in the hearing of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says the LORD: "I remember you, The kindness of your youth, The love of your betrothal, When you went after Me in the wilderness, In a land not sown.
Ezekiel 20:5
"Say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "On the day when I chose Israel and raised My hand in an oath to the descendants of the house of Jacob, and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt, I raised My hand in an oath to them, saying, 'I am the LORD your God.'
Hosea 2:19
I will betroth you to Me forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me In righteousness and justice, In lovingkindness and mercy.
Hosea 2:20
I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness, And you shall know the LORD.
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Genesis 24:22
So it was, when the camels had finished drinking, that the man took a golden nose ring weighing half a shekel, and two bracelets for her wrists weighing ten shekels of gold.
Genesis 24:47
Then I asked her, and said, 'Whose daughter are you?' And she said, 'The daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bore to him.' So I put the nose ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.
Isaiah 3:19
The pendants, the bracelets, and the veils.
Ezekiel 23:42
The sound of a carefree multitude was with her, and Sabeans were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort, who put bracelets on their wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads.
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Genesis 41:42
Then Pharaoh took his signet ring off his hand and put it on Joseph's hand; and he clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck.
Proverbs 1:9
For they will be a graceful ornament on your head, And chains about your neck.
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Deuteronomy 32:13
He made him ride in the heights of the earth, That he might eat the produce of the fields; He made him draw honey from the rock, And oil from the flinty rock.
Deuteronomy 32:14
Curds from the cattle, and milk of the flock, With fat of lambs; And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, With the choicest wheat; And you drank wine, the blood of the grapes.
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Psalms 48:2
Beautiful in elevation, The joy of the whole earth, Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north, The city of the great King.
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Psalms 50:2
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God will shine forth.
Lamentations 2:15
All who pass by clap their hands at you; They hiss and shake their heads At the daughter of Jerusalem: " Is this the city that is called 'The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth'?
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Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; You grew fat, you grew thick, You are obese! Then he forsook God who made him, And scornfully esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Jeremiah 7:4
"Do not trust in these lying words, saying, 'The temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD are these.'
Micah 3:11
Her heads judge for a bribe, Her priests teach for pay, And her prophets divine for money. Yet they lean on the LORD, and say, "Is not the LORD among us? No harm can come upon us.
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Isaiah 1:21
How the faithful city has become a harlot! It w...
Isaiah 57:8
Also behind the doors and their posts You have ...
Jeremiah 2:20
For of old I have broken your yoke and burst yo...
Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up your eyes to the desolate heights and s...
Jeremiah 3:6
The LORD said also to me in the days of Josiah ...
Jeremiah 3:20
Surely, as a wife treacherously departs from he...
Ezekiel 23:11 - 20
Now although her sister Oholibah saw this, she ...
Hosea 1:2
When the LORD began to speak by Hosea, the LORD...
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2 Kings 23:7
Then he tore down the ritual booths of the perverted persons that were in the house of the LORD, where the women wove hangings for the wooden image.
Ezekiel 7:20
As for the beauty of his ornaments, He set it in majesty; But they made from it The images of their abominations - Their detestable things; Therefore I have made it Like refuse to them.
Hosea 2:8
For she did not know That I gave her grain, new wine, and oil, And multiplied her silver and gold - Which they prepared for Baal.
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Hosea 2:8
For she did not know That I gave her grain, new wine, and oil, And multiplied her silver and gold - Which they prepared for Baal.
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2 Kings 16:3
But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel; indeed he made his son pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD had cast out from before the children of Israel.
Psalms 106:37
They even sacrificed their sons And their daughters to demons.
Isaiah 57:5
Inflaming yourselves with gods under every green tree, Slaying the children in the valleys, Under the clefts of the rocks?
Jeremiah 7:31
And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command, nor did it come into My heart.
Ezekiel 20:26
"and I pronounced them unclean because of their ritual gifts, in that they caused all their firstborn to pass through the fire, that I might make them desolate and that they might know that I am the LORD."'
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2 Kings 17:17
And they caused their sons and daughters to pass through the fire, practiced witchcraft and soothsaying, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke Him to anger.
Jeremiah 19:5
(they have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or speak, nor did it come into My mind).
Ezekiel 20:31
For when you offer 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 not be inquired of by you.
Ezekiel 23:37
For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and even sacrificed their sons whom they bore to Me, passing them through the fire, to devour them.
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Jeremiah 2:2
Go and cry in the hearing of Jerusalem, saying, 'Thus says the LORD: "I remember you, The kindness of your youth, The love of your betrothal, When you went after Me in the wilderness, In a land not sown.
Hosea 11:1
When Israel was a child, I loved him, And out of Egypt I called My son.
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Ezekiel 16:4 - 6
As for your nativity, on the day you were born your navel cord was not cut, nor were you washed in water to cleanse you; you were not rubbed with salt nor wrapped in swaddling cloths.
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Jeremiah 11:13
For according to the number of your cities were your gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem you have set up altars to that shameful thing, altars to burn incense to Baal.
Ezekiel 16:31
You erected your shrine at the head of every road, and built your high place in every street. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned payment.
Ezekiel 16:39
I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your shrines and break down your high places. They shall also strip you of your clothes, take your beautiful jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.
Ezekiel 20:28
When I brought them into the land concerning which I had raised My hand in an oath to give them, and 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 sweet aroma and poured out their drink offerings.
Ezekiel 20:29
"Then I said to them, 'What is this high place to which you go?' So its name is called Bamah to this day."'
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Psalms 78:58
For they provoked Him to anger with their high places, And moved Him to jealousy with their carved images.
Isaiah 57:7
On a lofty and high mountain You have set your bed; Even there you went up To offer sacrifice.
Jeremiah 2:20
For of old I have broken your yoke and burst your bonds; And you said, 'I will not transgress,' When on every high hill and under every green tree You lay down, playing the harlot.
Jeremiah 3:2
Lift up your eyes to the desolate heights and see: Where have you not lain with men? By the road you have sat for them Like an Arabian in the wilderness; And you have polluted the land With your harlotries and your wickedness.
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Proverbs 9:14
For she sits at the door of her house, On a seat by the highest places of the city.
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Ezekiel 16:26
You also committed harlotry with the Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of harlotry to provoke Me to anger.
Ezekiel 20:7
"Then I said to them, 'Each of you, throw away the abominations which are before his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.'
Ezekiel 20:8
"But they rebelled against Me and would not obey Me. They did not all cast away the abominations which were before their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said, 'I will pour out My fury on them and fulfill My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.'
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Deuteronomy 31:20
When I have brought them to the land flowing with milk and honey, of which I swore to their fathers, and they have eaten and filled themselves and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods and serve them; and they will provoke Me and break My covenant.
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2 Chronicles 28:18
The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the lowland and of the South of Judah, and had taken Beth Shemesh, Aijalon, Gederoth, Sochoh with its villages, Timnah with its villages, and Gimzo with its villages; and they dwelt there.
Isaiah 9:12
The Syrians before and the Philistines behind; And they shall devour Israel with an open mouth. For all this His anger is not turned away, But His hand is stretched out still.
Ezekiel 16:57
Before your wickedness was uncovered. It was like the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria and all those around her, and of the daughters of the Philistines, who despise you everywhere.
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2 Kings 16:7
So Ahaz sent messengers to TiglathPile'ser king...
2 Kings 16:10 - 18
Now King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet TiglathP...
2 Chronicles 28:16
At the same time King Ahaz sent to the kings of...
2 Chronicles 28:20 - 23
Also TiglathPile'ser king of Assyria came to hi...
Jeremiah 2:18
And now why take the road to Egypt, To drink th...
Jeremiah 2:36
Why do you gad about so much to change your way...
Ezekiel 23:12
She lusted for the neighboring Assyrians, Capta...
Hosea 10:6
The idol also shall be carried to Assyria As a ...
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Ezekiel 23:14 - 17
But she increased her harlotry; She looked at men portrayed on the wall, Images of Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion.
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Ezekiel 16:24
That you also built for yourself a shrine, and made a high place for yourself in every street.
Ezekiel 16:39
I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your shrines and break down your high places. They shall also strip you of your clothes, take your beautiful jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.
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Isaiah 52:3
For thus says the LORD: "You have sold yourselves for nothing, And you shall be redeemed without money.
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Isaiah 30:6
The burden against the beasts of the South. Through a land of trouble and anguish, From which came the lioness and lion, The viper and fiery flying serpent, They will carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys, And their treasures on the humps of camels, To a people who shall not profit.
Isaiah 57:9
You went to the king with ointment, And increased your perfumes; You sent your messengers far off, And even descended to Sheol.
Ezekiel 16:41
They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will make you cease playing the harlot, and you shall no longer hire lovers.
Hosea 8:9
For they have gone up to Assyria, Like a wild donkey alone by itself; Ephraim has hired lovers.
Hosea 8:10
Yes, though they have hired among the nations, Now I will gather them; And they shall sorrow a little, Because of the burden of the king of princes.
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Jeremiah 2:34
Also on your skirts is found The blood of the lives of the poor innocents. I have not found it by secret search, But plainly on all these things.
Ezekiel 16:20
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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Jeremiah 13:22
And if you say in your heart, "Why have these t...
Jeremiah 13:26
Therefore I will uncover your skirts over your ...
Lamentations 1:8
Jerusalem has sinned gravely, Therefore she has...
Ezekiel 23:9
Therefore I have delivered her Into the hand of...
Ezekiel 23:10
They uncovered her nakedness, Took away her son...
Ezekiel 23:22
Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord GOD: 'B...
Ezekiel 23:29
They will deal hatefully with you, take away al...
Hosea 2:10
Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of...
Hosea 8:10
Yes, though they have hired among the nations, ...
Nahum 3:5
Behold, I am against you," says the LORD of hos...
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Leviticus 20:10
The man who commits adultery with another man's wife, he who commits adultery with his neighbor's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress, shall surely be put to death.
Deuteronomy 22:22
If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then both of them shall die - the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall put away the evil from Israel.
Ezekiel 23:45
But righteous men will judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.
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Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man.
Exodus 21:12
He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.
Ezekiel 16:20
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.
Ezekiel 16:36
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 the blood of your children which you gave to them.
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Ezekiel 16:24
That you also built for yourself a shrine, and made a high place for yourself in every street.
Ezekiel 16:31
You erected your shrine at the head of every road, and built your high place in every street. Yet you were not like a harlot, because you scorned payment.
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Ezekiel 23:26
They shall also strip you of your clothes And take away your beautiful jewelry.
Hosea 2:3
Lest I strip her naked And expose her, as in the day she was born, And make her like a wilderness, And set her like a dry land, And slay her with thirst.
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Ezekiel 23:45 - 47
But righteous men will judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.
Habakkuk 1:6 - 10
For indeed I am raising up the Chaldeans, A bitter and hasty nation Which marches through the breadth of the earth, To possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
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John 8:5
"Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned. But what do You say?"
John 8:7
So when they continued asking Him, He raised Himself up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.
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Deuteronomy 13:16
And you shall gather all its plunder into the middle of the street, and completely burn with fire the city and all its plunder, for the LORD your God. It shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.
2 Kings 25:9
He burned the house of the LORD and the king's house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, he burned with fire.
Jeremiah 39:8
And the Chaldeans burned the king's house and the houses of the people with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 52:13
He burned the house of the LORD and the king's house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, he burned with fire.
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Ezekiel 5:8
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Indeed I, even I, am against you and will execute judgments in your midst in the sight of the nations.
Ezekiel 23:10
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.
Ezekiel 23:48
Thus I will cause lewdness to cease from the land, that all women may be taught not to practice your lewdness.
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Ezekiel 23:27
'Thus I will make you cease your lewdness and your harlotry Brought from the land of Egypt, So that you will not lift your eyes to them, Nor remember Egypt anymore.'
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2 Samuel 24:25
And David built there an altar to the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the LORD heeded the prayers for the land, and the plague was withdrawn from Israel.
Ezekiel 5:13
Thus shall My anger be spent, and I will cause My fury to rest upon them, and I will be avenged; and they shall know that I, the LORD, have spoken it in My zeal, when I have spent My fury upon them.
Ezekiel 21:17
"I also will beat My fists together, And I will cause My fury to rest; I, the LORD, have spoken."
Zechariah 6:8
And He called to me, and spoke to me, saying, "See, those who go toward the north country have given rest to My Spirit in the north country.
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Psalms 78:42
They did not remember His power: The day when He redeemed them from the enemy.
Ezekiel 16:22
And in all your abominations and acts of harlotry you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, struggling in your blood.
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Ezekiel 9:10
"And as for Me also, My eye will neither spare, nor will I have pity, but I will recompense their deeds on their own head."
Ezekiel 11:21
But as for those whose hearts follow the desire for their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their deeds on their own heads," says the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 22:31
Therefore I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed their deeds on their own heads," says the Lord GOD.
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Ezekiel 23:2 - 4
Son of man, there were two women, The daughters of one mother.
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Ezekiel 16:3
And say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem: "Your birth and your nativity are from the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
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Deuteronomy 32:32
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom And of the fields of Gomorrah; Their grapes are grapes of gall, Their clusters are bitter.
Isaiah 1:10
Hear the word of the LORD, You rulers of Sodom; Give ear to the law of our God, You people of Gomorrah:
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2 Kings 21:9
But they paid no attention, and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
Ezekiel 5:6
'She has rebelled against My judgments by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against My statutes more than the countries that are all around her; for they have refused My judgments, and they have not walked in My statutes.'
Ezekiel 5:7
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Because you have multiplied disobedience more than the nations that are all around you, have not walked in My statutes nor kept My judgments, nor even done according to the judgments of the nations that are all around you' -
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Isaiah 3:9
The look on their countenance witnesses against them, And they declare their sin as Sodom; They do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought evil upon themselves.
Lamentations 4:6
The punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people Is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, Which was overthrown in a moment, With no hand to help her!
Matthew 10:15
Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!
Matthew 11:24
"But I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you."
Revelation 11:8
And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
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Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you go toward Zoar.
Isaiah 22:13
But instead, joy and gladness, Slaying oxen and killing sheep, Eating meat and drinking wine: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!
Amos 6:4 - 6
Who lie on beds of ivory, Stretch out on your couches, Eat lambs from the flock And calves from the midst of the stall.
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Genesis 13:13
But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the LORD.
Genesis 18:20
And the LORD said, "Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave.
Genesis 19:5
And they called to Lot and said to him, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us that we may know them carnally.
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Genesis 19:24
Then the LORD rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah, from the LORD out of the heavens.
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Ezekiel 23:11
Now although her sister Oholibah saw this, she became more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her harlotry more corrupt than her sister's harlotry.
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Jeremiah 3:8 - 11
Then I saw that for all the causes for which backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a certificate of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but went and played the harlot also.
Matthew 12:41
The men of Nineveh will rise up in the judgment with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and indeed a greater than Jonah is here.
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Isaiah 1:9
Unless the LORD of hosts Had left to us a very small remnant, We would have become like Sodom, We would have been made like Gomorrah.
Ezekiel 16:60
Nevertheless I will remember My covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish an everlasting covenant with you.
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Jeremiah 20:16
And let that man be like the cities Which the LORD overthrew, and did not relent; Let him hear the cry in the morning And the shouting at noon.
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Ezekiel 14:22
Yet behold, there shall be left in it a remnant who will be brought out, both sons and daughters; surely they will come out to you, and you will see their ways and their doings. Then you will be comforted concerning the disaster that I have brought upon Jerusalem, all that I have brought upon it.
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2 Kings 16:5
Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of R...
2 Chronicles 28:18
The Philistines also had invaded the cities of ...
Isaiah 7:1
Now it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son...
Ezekiel 5:14
Moreover I will make you a waste and a reproach...
Ezekiel 5:15
So it shall be a reproach, a taunt, a lesson, a...
Ezekiel 22:4
You have become guilty by the blood which you h...
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Ezekiel 16:27
Behold, therefore, I stretched out My hand against you, diminished your allotment, and gave you up to the will of those who hate you, the daughters of the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd behavior.
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Ezekiel 23:49
'They shall repay you for your lewdness, and you shall pay for your idolatrous sins. Then you shall know that I am the Lord GOD.'"
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Ezekiel 17:13
And he took the king's offspring, made a covenant with him, and put him under oath. He also took away the mighty of the land.
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Deuteronomy 29:12
That you may enter into covenant with the LORD your God, and into His oath, which the LORD your God makes with you today.
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Leviticus 26:42 - 45
Then I will remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember; I will remember the land.
Psalms 106:45
And for their sake He remembered His covenant, And relented according to the multitude of His mercies.
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Isaiah 55:3
Incline your ear, and come to Me. Hear, and your soul shall live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you - The sure mercies of David.
Jeremiah 32:40
And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from doing them good; but I will put My fear in their hearts so that they will not depart from Me.
Jeremiah 50:5
They shall ask the way to Zion, With their faces toward it, saying, 'Come and let us join ourselves to the LORD In a perpetual covenant That will not be forgotten.
Ezekiel 37:26
Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them, and it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My sanctuary in their midst forevermore.
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Jeremiah 50:4
In those days and in that time," says the LORD, "The children of Israel shall come, They and the children of Judah together; With continual weeping they shall come, And seek the LORD their God.
Jeremiah 50:5
They shall ask the way to Zion, With their faces toward it, saying, 'Come and let us join ourselves to the LORD In a perpetual covenant That will not be forgotten.
Ezekiel 20:43
And there you shall remember your ways and all your doings with which you were defiled; and you shall loathe yourselves in your own sight because of all the evils that you have committed.
Ezekiel 36:31
Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight, for your iniquities and your abominations.
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Isaiah 54:1
Sing, O barren, You who have not borne! Break forth into singing, and cry aloud, You who have not labored with child! For more are the children of the desolate Than the children of the married woman," says the LORD.
Isaiah 60:4
Lift up your eyes all around, and see: They all gather together, they come to you; Your sons shall come from afar, And your daughters shall be nursed at your side.
Galatians 4:26
But the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.
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Jeremiah 31:31
Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah -
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Hosea 2:19
I will betroth you to Me forever; Yes, I will betroth you to Me In righteousness and justice, In lovingkindness and mercy.
Hosea 2:20
I will betroth you to Me in faithfulness, And you shall know the LORD.
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Ezekiel 36:31
Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight, for your iniquities and your abominations.
Ezekiel 36:32
"Not for your sake do I do this, " says the Lord GOD, "let it be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel!"
Daniel 9:7
O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day - to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.
Daniel 9:8
O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.
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Psalms 39:9
I was mute, I did not open my mouth, Because it was You who did it.
Romans 3:19
Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
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