Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.

Bible References

Give

Genesis 38:16
He went over to her and said, “Come, let me sleep with you,” for he did not know that she was his daughter-in-law.

She said, “What will you give me for sleeping with me?”
Deuteronomy 23:17
“No Israelite woman is to be a cult prostitute, and no Israelite man is to be a cult prostitute.
Hosea 2:12
I will devastate her vines and fig trees.
She thinks that these are her wages
that her lovers have given her.
I will turn them into a thicket,
and the wild animals will eat them.
Joel 3:3
They cast lots for My people;
they bartered a boy for a prostitute
and sold a girl for wine to drink.
Micah 1:7
All her carved images will be smashed to pieces;
all her wages will be burned in the fire,
and I will destroy all her idols.
Since she collected the wages of a prostitute,
they will be used again for a prostitute.
Luke 15:30
But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.’

But thou

Isaiah 30:3
But Pharaoh’s protection will become your shame,
and refuge in Egypt’s shadow your disgrace.
Isaiah 57:9
You went to the king with oil
and multiplied your perfumes;
you sent your couriers far away
and sent them down even to Sheol.
Hosea 8:9
For they have gone up to Assyria
like a wild donkey going off on its own.
Ephraim has paid for love.

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