Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

Bible References

Found

Hosea 11:1
When Israel was a child, I loved him,
and out of Egypt I called My son.
Exodus 19:4
‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to Me.
Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desolate land,
in a barren, howling wilderness;
He surrounded him, cared for him,
and protected him as the pupil of His eye.
Jeremiah 2:2
“Go and announce directly to Jerusalem that this is what the Lord says:

I remember the loyalty of your youth,
your love as a bride—
how you followed Me in the wilderness,
in a land not sown.
Jeremiah 31:2
This is what the Lord says:

They found favor in the wilderness
the people who survived the sword.
When Israel went to find rest,

Grapes

Hosea 2:15
There I will give her vineyards back to her
and make the Valley of Achor
into a gateway of hope.
There she will respond as she did
in the days of her youth,
as in the day she came out of the land of Egypt.
Numbers 13:23
When they came to the Valley of Eshcol, they cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes, which was carried on a pole by two men. They also took some pomegranates and figs.
Isaiah 28:4
The fading flower of his beautiful splendor,
which is on the summit above the rich valley,
will be like a ripe fig before the summer harvest.
Whoever sees it will swallow it
while it is still in his hand.
Micah 7:1
How sad for me!
For I am like one who—
when the summer fruit has been gathered
after the gleaning of the grape harvest
finds no grape cluster to eat,
no early fig, which I crave.

But

Numbers 25:3
So Israel aligned itself with Baal of Peor, and the Lord’s anger burned against Israel.
Deuteronomy 4:3
Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal-peor, for the Lord your God destroyed every one of you who followed Baal of Peor.
Psalm 106:28
They aligned themselves with Baal of Peor
and ate sacrifices offered to lifeless gods.

Separated

Hosea 4:14
I will not punish your daughters
when they act promiscuously
or your daughters-in-law
when they commit adultery,
for the men themselves go off with prostitutes
and make sacrifices with cult prostitutes.
People without discernment are doomed.
Judges 6:32
That day, Gideon’s father called him Jerubbaal, saying, “Let Baal plead his case with him,” because he tore down his altar.
1 Kings 16:31
Then, as if following the sin of Jeroboam son of Nebat were a trivial matter, he married Jezebel, the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and then proceeded to serve Baal and worship him.
Jeremiah 11:13
Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, Judah, and the altars you have set up to Shame—altars to burn incense to Baal—as numerous as the streets of Jerusalem.
Romans 6:21
So what fruit was produced then from the things you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death.

And their

Numbers 15:39
These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the Lord’s commands and obey them and not become unfaithful by following your own heart and your own eyes.
Deuteronomy 32:17
They sacrificed to demons, not God,
to gods they had not known,
new gods that had just arrived,
which your fathers did not fear.
Psalm 81:12
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts
to follow their own plans.
Jeremiah 5:31
The prophets prophesy falsely,
and the priests rule by their own authority.
My people love it like this.
But what will you do at the end of it?
Ezekiel 20:8
“But they rebelled against Me and were unwilling to listen to Me. None of them threw away the detestable things that were before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I considered pouring out My wrath on them, exhausting My anger against them within the land of Egypt.
Amos 4:5
Offer leavened bread as a thank offering,
and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings,
for that is what you Israelites love to do!
This is the Lord’s declaration.

General references

Leviticus 18:27
For the men who were in the land prior to you have committed all these detestable things, and the land has become defiled.
Jeremiah 3:24
From the time of our youth
the shameful one has consumed
what our fathers have worked for—
their flocks and their herds,
their sons and their daughters.
Amos 5:25
“House of Israel, was it sacrifices and grain offerings that you presented to Me during the 40 years in the wilderness?

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