Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

Bible References

Ashamed

Isaiah 30:22
Then you will defile your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, and call them filth.
Isaiah 31:7
For on that day, every one of you will reject the silver and gold idols that your own hands have sinfully made.
Isaiah 45:16
All of them are put to shame, even humiliated;
the makers of idols go in humiliation together.
Ezekiel 16:63
so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth again because of your disgrace.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.
Ezekiel 36:31
“Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and detestable practices.
Hosea 14:3
Assyria will not save us,
we will not ride on horses,
and we will no longer proclaim, ‘Our gods!’
to the work of our hands.
For the fatherless receives compassion in You.”
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.

The oaks

Isaiah 57:5
who burn with lust among the oaks,
under every green tree,
who slaughter children in the wadis
below the clefts of the rocks?
Hosea 4:13
They sacrifice on the mountaintops,
and they burn offerings on the hills,
and under oaks, poplars, and terebinths,
because their shade is pleasant.
And so your daughters act promiscuously
and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

The gardens

Isaiah 65:3
These people continually provoke Me
to My face,
sacrificing in gardens,
burning incense on bricks,
Isaiah 66:17
“Those who dedicate and purify themselves to enter the groves following their leader, eating meat from pigs, vermin, and rats, will perish together.”

This is the Lord’s declaration.
Jeremiah 2:20
For long ago I broke your yoke;
I tore off your chains.
You insisted, “I will not serve!”
On every high hill
and under every green tree
you lie down like a prostitute.
Jeremiah 3:6
In the days of King Josiah the Lord asked me, “Have you seen what unfaithful Israel has done? She has ascended every high hill and gone under every green tree to prostitute herself there.

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