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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Sacrifice

Isaiah 1:29
Indeed, they will be ashamed of the sacred trees you find so desirable; you will be embarrassed because of the sacred orchards where you choose to worship.
Isaiah 57:5
you who practice ritual sex under the oaks and every green tree, who slaughter children near the streams under the rocky overhangs.
Jeremiah 3:6
When Josiah was king of Judah, the Lord said to me, "Jeremiah, you have no doubt seen what wayward Israel has done. You have seen how she went up to every high hill and under every green tree to give herself like a prostitute to other gods.
Ezekiel 6:13
Then you will know that I am the Lord -- when their dead lie among their idols around their altars, on every high hill and all the mountaintops, under every green tree and every leafy oak, the places where they have offered fragrant incense to all their idols.
Ezekiel 16:16
You took some of your clothing and made for yourself decorated high places; you engaged in prostitution on them. You went to him to become his.
Ezekiel 20:28
I brought them to the land which I swore to give them, but whenever they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there and presented the offerings that provoke me to anger. They offered their soothing aroma there and poured out their drink offerings.

Therefore

2 Samuel 12:10
So now the sword will never depart from your house. For you have despised me by taking the wife of Uriah the Hittite as your own!'
Job 31:9
If my heart has been enticed by a woman, and I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door,
Amos 7:17
"Therefore this is what the Lord says: 'Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets and your sons and daughters will die violently. Your land will be given to others and you will die in a foreign land. Israel will certainly be carried into exile away from its land.'"
Romans 1:23
and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles.

General references

Proverbs 5:9
lest you give your vigor to others and your years to a cruel person,

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