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
and he turneth aside unto her by the way, and saith, 'Come, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee,' (for he hath not known that she is his daughter-in-law); and she saith, 'What dost thou give to me, that thou mayest come in unto me?'
Deuteronomy 23:17
'There is not a whore among the daughters of Israel, nor is there a whoremonger among the sons of Israel;
Hosea 2:12
And made desolate her vine and her fig-tree, Of which she said, A gift they are to me, That my lovers have given to me, And I have made them for a forest, And consumed them hath a beast of the field.
Joel 3:3
And for My people they do cast a lot, And they give the young man for an harlot, And the young woman have sold for wine, That they may drink.
Micah 1:7
And all her graven images are beaten down, And all her gifts are burnt with fire, And all her idols I make a desolation, For, from the hire of a harlot she gathered, and unto the hire of a harlot they return.
Luke 15:30
but when thy son -- this one who did devour thy living with harlots -- came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.

But thou

Isaiah 30:3
And the strength of Pharaoh Hath been to you for shame, And the trust in the shadow of Egypt confusion,
Isaiah 57:9
And goest joyfully to the king in ointment, And dost multiply thy perfumes, And sendest thine ambassadors afar off, And humblest thyself unto Sheol.
Hosea 8:9
For they -- they have gone up to Asshur, A wild ass alone by himself is Ephraim, They have hired lovers!