Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots' houses.

How shall

I had fed

Bible References

How shall

Matthew 23:37
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! murdering the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you refused!

No gods

1 Corinthians 8:4
As to eating things, then, that have been offered to idols, we all know that no idol has any real existence, and that there is no God but one.
Galatians 4:8
But formerly, in your ignorance of God, you were slaves to gods that really did not exist,

I had fed

James 5:1
Come now, you rich people! weep aloud and howl over the miseries that are going to overtake you!

They then

1 Corinthians 6:9
Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have any share in God's kingdom? Do not let anyone mislead you. People who are immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or given to unnatural vice
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage should be respected by everyone, and the marriage relation kept sacred, for vicious and immoral people God will punish.
James 4:4
You renegades! Do you not know that the friendship of the world means enmity with God? So whoever wishes to be the world's friend declares himself God's enemy.