Jeremiah 3:6

During the reign of King Josiah, Jehovah asked me: Did you see what unfaithful Israel did? She went up every high mountain and under every large tree, and she acted like a prostitute there.

1 Kings 14:23

They built places of worship for false gods. They put up stone pillars and symbols of Asherah to worship on the hills and under shady trees.

The wrath (intense anger) of Jehovah came on Israel because they had done evil against Jehovah their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt from under the yoke of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. They worshipped other gods.

Isaiah 57:7

You placed your bed on a lofty and high mountain. Even there you went up to offer sacrifice.

Jeremiah 2:19-20

Your own wickedness will correct you. Your apostasies (unfaithful ways) will punish you! You should know and see how evil and bitter it is for you when you abandon Jehovah your God! You do not respect (reverence) me, says the Sovereign Lord Jehovah of Hosts.

Jeremiah 3:8

Judah saw that I sent unfaithful Israel away because of her adultery and that I gave Israel her divorce papers. But treacherous Judah, her sister, was not afraid. She also acted like a prostitute.

Jeremiah 3:11-14

Jehovah said to me: Treacherous Judah was more reprehensible than unfaithful Israel.

Jeremiah 7:24

Yet they did not obey or incline their ear. They walked in their own counsels and in the stubbornness of their evil heart. They went backward and not forward.

Jeremiah 17:2

Even their children remember their altars and their poles (images) dedicated to the goddess Asherah beside large trees on high hills

Ezekiel 16:24-25

by the side of every road you built places to worship idols and practice prostitution.

Ezekiel 16:31

You had sex on every street corner, and when you finished, you refused to accept money. That is worse than being a prostitute!

Ezekiel 20:28

I brought them to the land I had promised to give them. When they saw the high hills and green trees, they offered sacrifices at all of them. They made me angry by the sacrifices they burned and by the wine they brought as offerings.

Ezekiel 23:11

Now her sister Oholibah saw this, yet she was more corrupt in her lust than she. Her prostitution was more than the fornication of her sister.

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Summary

Jeremiah 3:6

The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

She is

1 Kings 14:23

Played

Jeremiah 3:1

Bible References

She is

Long ago you broke off your yoke, tore off your bonds, and said that you would not be a slave. You lay down and acted like a prostitute on every high hill and under every large tree.

You placed your bed on a lofty and high mountain. Even there you went up to offer sacrifice.

by the side of every road you built places to worship idols and practice prostitution.

They built places of worship for false gods. They put up stone pillars and symbols of Asherah to worship on the hills and under shady trees.

Played

It is said: If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, her first husband should not go back to her again. The land would become completely polluted. You have behaved like a prostitute who has many lovers. Now you want to come back to me! Says Jehovah.