Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.

Thou hast loved

General references

Bible References

As

Ezekiel 16:47
Didn’t you walk in their ways and do their detestable practices? It was only a short time before you behaved more corruptly than they did.
Ezekiel 20:32
“When you say, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the peoples of other countries, worshiping wood and stone,’ what you have in mind will never happen.
Amos 3:2
I have known only you
out of all the clans of the earth;
therefore, I will punish you for all your iniquities.

Gone

Hosea 4:12
My people consult their wooden idols,
and their divining rods inform them.
For a spirit of promiscuity leads them astray;
they act promiscuously
in disobedience to their God.
Hosea 5:4
Their actions do not allow them
to return to their God,
for a spirit of promiscuity is among them,
and they do not know the Lord.

Thou hast loved

Hosea 2:12
I will devastate her vines and fig trees.
She thinks that these are her wages
that her lovers have given her.
I will turn them into a thicket,
and the wild animals will eat them.
Jeremiah 44:17
Instead, we will do everything we said we would: burn incense to the queen of heaven and offer drink offerings to her just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in Judah’s cities and in Jerusalem’s streets. Then we had enough food and good things and saw no disaster,

General references

Isaiah 24:7
The new wine mourns;
the vine withers.
All the carousers now groan.

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