Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.

If a man

General references

Bible References

If a man

Deuteronomy 24:1
"When a man takes a wife and he marries her {and then} {she does not please him}, because he found {something objectionable} and writes her a letter of divorce and puts [it] in her hand and sends her [away] from his house,

Shall not that

Jeremiah 3:9
And it was because of the frivolity of her fornication that she defiled the land and committed adultery with the stone and with the tree.
Jeremiah 2:7
And I brought you to the land of the orchard, to eat its fruit, and its good things. But you entered and defiled my land, and my inheritance you made a detestable thing.
Leviticus 18:24
" 'You must not make yourself unclean in any of these [things], because the nations whom I am driving out from your presence were made unclean by all of these.
Isaiah 24:5
and the earth is defiled beneath its inhabitants. For they have transgressed laws; they have passed by statutes; they have broken [the] everlasting covenant.
Micah 2:10
Arise and go, for this [is] no resting place, on account of uncleanness [that] destroys with painful destruction.

But thou hast

Jeremiah 2:20
"For from long ago you have broken your yoke, you tore to pieces your bonds. And you said, 'I will not serve!' But on every high hill and under every leafy tree you [were] lying down [as] a prostitute.
Deuteronomy 22:21
and [then] they shall bring out the young woman to the doorway of the house of her father, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones, and she shall die, because she did a disgraceful thing in Israel {by playing the harlot} [in] the house of her father, and so you shall purge the evil from your midst.
Judges 19:2
But his concubine felt repugnance toward him, and she left him and went to her father's house, to Bethlehem in Judah; she was there some four months.
Ezekiel 16:26
And you prostituted with the {Egyptians}, your neighbors {who were sexually aroused}, and you increased your fornication to provoke me.
Ezekiel 23:4
Now [as for] their names, the older [was] Oholah, and Oholibah [was] her sister. And {they became mine}, and they bore sons and daughters, and their names [are] Samaria [for] Oholah, and Jerusalem [for] Oholibah
Hosea 1:2
{At the beginning when Yahweh spoke} through Hosea, Yahweh said to Hosea, "Go, take for yourself a wife and children of whoredom, because the land commits great whoredom {forsaking Yahweh}."
Hosea 2:5
Because their mother was unfaithful; she who conceived them has acted shamefully, for she said: "I will go after my lovers, the ones who give [me] my bread, my water, my wool, and my flax, my oil, and my drink."

Yet return

Jeremiah 3:12
Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, 'Return, apostate Israel,' {declares} Yahweh. 'I will not cause my {anger} to fall on you. For I [am] loyal,' {declares} Yahweh. 'I will not be angry {forever}.
Jeremiah 4:1
If you return, Israel," {declares} Yahweh, "you return to me. And if you remove your abominations from my {presence}, and you do not wander,
Jeremiah 8:4
"And you shall say to them, 'Thus asks Yahweh: "Do men fall and not stand up? If one turns away does he not return?
Deuteronomy 4:29
But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God and will find him, if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Isaiah 55:6
Seek Yahweh {while he lets himself be found}; call him {while he is} near.
Ezekiel 33:11
Say to them, '{As I live},' {declares} the Lord Yahweh, '{Surely I have no delight} in the death of the wicked, {except} in [the] wicked returning from his way, and he lives. Turn back! Turn back from your ways, O evil [ones], for why should you die, house of Israel?'
Hosea 14:1
Return to Yahweh your God, Israel, for you have stumbled because of your sin.
Zechariah 1:3
You must say to them: 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "Return to me," {declares} Yahweh of hosts, "and I will return to you," says Yahweh of hosts.
Luke 15:16
And he was longing to fill his stomach with the carob pods that the pigs were eating, and no one was giving [anything] to him.

General references

Isaiah 55:8
"For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, and your ways [are] not my ways," {declares} Yahweh.
Ezekiel 16:32
O, adulterous woman! In the place of her husband she received strangers.
Mark 10:4
So they said, "Moses permitted [a man] to write a certificate of divorce and to send [her] away."