Revelation 2:20

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Summary

Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.

I have

Revelation 2:4

That woman

2 Kings 9:7

And to seduce

Bible References

I have

But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

That woman

It happened, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.

It shall be, that you shall drink of the brook. I have commanded the ravens to feed you there."

Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.

Jezebel his wife said to him, "Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite."

You shall strike the house of Ahab your master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Yahweh, at the hand of Jezebel.

And to seduce

But I have a few things against you, because you have there some who hold the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to throw a stumbling block before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit sexual immorality.

"Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

Israel stayed in Shittim; and the people began to play the prostitute with the daughters of Moab:

but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.

For if a man sees you who have knowledge sitting in an idol's temple, won't his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat things sacrificed to idols?

Consider Israel according to the flesh. Don't those who eat the sacrifices participate in the altar?