Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

Bible References

General references

Jeremiah 2:12

“Be appalled, O heavens, at this;
Be shocked and shudder with horror [at the behavior of the people],” says the Lord.
Jeremiah 5:30

“An appalling and horrible thing [bringing desolation and destruction]
Has come to pass in the land:
Jeremiah 18:13

“Therefore thus says the Lord,
‘Ask now among the nations,
Who has heard of such things?
The virgin Israel
Has done a very vile and horrible thing.
Jeremiah 23:14

“Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem:
They commit adultery and walk in lies;
They encourage and strengthen the hands of evildoers,
So that no one has turned back from his wickedness.
All of them have become like Sodom to Me,
And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

There

Hosea 4:11

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away the mind and the [spiritual] understanding.
Hosea 5:3

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hidden from Me;
For now, O Ephraim, you have played the prostitute and have worshiped idols;
Israel has defiled itself.
1 Kings 12:8
But he ignored the advice which the elders gave him and consulted the young men who grew up with him and served him.
1 Kings 15:30
because of the sins committed by Jeroboam and which he made Israel commit, and because he provoked the Lord God of Israel to anger.
2 Kings 17:7
Now this came about because the Israelites had sinned against the Lord their God, who had brought them up from the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and they had feared [and worshiped] other gods
Jeremiah 3:6
Moreover, the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king [of Judah], “Have you seen what that faithless Israel has done—how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there she was a prostitute?
Ezekiel 23:5
“Oholah played the prostitute while she was Mine; and she adored and lusted after her lovers (allies), the Assyrians, her neighbors,