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

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Bible References

As

Ezekiel 16:47
Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but in all thy ways thou hast been more corrupt than they.
Ezekiel 20:32
And as for the thing that ye go about, it shall not come to pass, whereas ye say, 'We will be as the Heathen, and do as other people in the land: wood and stone will we worship.'
Amos 3:2
'You only have I accepted from all the generations of the earth: therefore will I visit you in all your wickednesses.

Gone

Hosea 4:12
My people ask counsel at their stocks, their staff must tell them. For a whorish mind hath deceived them, so that they commit fornication against their God.
Hosea 5:4
They are not minded to turn unto their God, for they have an whorish heart, so that they cannot know the LORD.

Thou hast loved

Hosea 2:12
I will destroy her vineyards and fig trees, though she sayeth, 'Lo, here are my rewards, that my lovers have given me.' I will make it a wood, and the wild beasts shall eat it up.
Jeremiah 44:17
But whatsoever goeth out of our own mouth, that will we do: We will do sacrifice, and offer oblations unto the Queen of heaven: like as we and our forefathers, our kings and our heads have done in the cities of Judah, and in the streets and fields of Jerusalem. For then had we plenteousness of victuals, then were we in prosperity, and no misfortune came upon us.

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Isaiah 24:7
The sweet wine shall mourn, the grapes shall be weak, and all that have been merry in heart, shall sigh.