Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall.

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Bible References

Punish

Hosea 4:17
Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave him alone!
Isaiah 1:5
Why should you be beaten more, that you revolt more and more? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
Hebrews 12:8
But if you are without discipline, of which all have been made partakers, then are you illegitimate, and not children.

For

1 Corinthians 6:16
Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."

And they

1 Kings 14:23
For they also built them high places, and pillars, and Asherim, on every high hill, and under every green tree;
1 Kings 15:12
He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
2 Kings 23:7
He broke down the houses of the sodomites, that were in the house of Yahweh, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

Therefore

Hosea 4:1
Hear the word of Yahweh, you children of Israel; for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.
Hosea 14:9
Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
Proverbs 28:5
Evil men don't understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.
Isaiah 44:18
They don't know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can't see; and their hearts, that they can't understand.
Isaiah 56:11
Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
Daniel 12:10
Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.
John 8:43
Why don't you understand my speech? Because you can't hear my word.
Romans 3:11
There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
Ephesians 4:18
being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

General references

Proverbs 5:9
lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;