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
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets, and stoneth those who are sent to her! How often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

No gods

1 Corinthians 8:4
Concerning the eating of the things offered in sacrifice to idols, then, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
Galatians 4:8
But at that time, indeed, when ye knew not God, ye were in slavery to those who in their nature are not gods;

I had fed

James 5:1
Come now, ye rich men, weep and wail for your miseries that are coming upon you.

They then

1 Corinthians 6:9
Know ye not, that wrongdoers shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be honored in all respects, and the bed be undefiled; but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
James 4:4
Ye adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore chooseth to be a friend of the world, becometh an enemy of God.