Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery.

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Bible References

Sacrifice

Isaiah 1:29
They'll be ashamed of the oak trees that you desired; and you'll blush because of the gardens that you have chosen.
Isaiah 57:5
you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every spreading tree, who slaughter your children in the ravines, under the clefts of the rocks?
Jeremiah 3:6
In the time of King Josiah the LORD told me, "Have you seen what unfaithful Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she committed fornication there.
Ezekiel 6:13
"You'll learn that I am the LORD, when the fatally wounded will be among their idols, around their altars, on every hill, on top of the mountains, under every luxuriant tree, and under all the full-grown foliage every place where they've offered fragrant aromas to all their idols.
Ezekiel 16:16
You took some of your clothes and made gaily-colored high places and prostituted yourself all around them something which had never happened before nor will ever happen again.
Ezekiel 20:28
I brought them to the land that I had promised to give them. But whenever they saw any high hill and or any leafy tree, they slaughtered their sacrifices there and presented their offerings that provoked my anger. There they presented their pleasing aromas and poured out their drink offering.

Therefore

2 Samuel 12:10
""Therefore the sword will never leave your household, because you have despised me by taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.'
Job 31:9
"If my heart has been seduced by a woman and I've laid in wait at my friend's door,
Amos 7:17
"Therefore this is what the LORD says: "Your wife will become a whore in the city, and your sons and daughters will die by the sword. Your land will be divided and apportioned, and you will die in a foreign land. Israel will surely go into exile, far from its homeland."'"
Romans 1:23
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images that looked like mortal human beings, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles.

General references

Proverbs 5:9
so that you don't give your honor to others, and waste your best years;

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