Thematic Bible: Characterized as an adulteress
Thematic Bible
Adultery » A type of the apostate church when disobedient » Characterized as an adulteress
Yet they did not listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not do so.
Gideon made an ephod of it, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel prostituted themselves after it there; and it became a snare to Gideon, and to his house.
They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and prostituted themselves after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.
Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
"Therefore tell the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Do you pollute yourselves in the way of your fathers? And do you play the prostitute after their abominations?
"Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitution.'"
My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.
Their deeds won't allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the LORD.
Do not rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
Israel » A type of the apostate church when disobedient » Characterized as an adulteress
Yet they did not listen to their judges; for they played the prostitute after other gods, and bowed themselves down to them: they turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not do so.
Gideon made an ephod of it, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel prostituted themselves after it there; and it became a snare to Gideon, and to his house.
They trespassed against the God of their fathers, and prostituted themselves after the gods of the peoples of the land, whom God destroyed before them.
Thus were they defiled with their works, and prostituted themselves in their deeds.
Those of you that escape shall remember me among the nations where they shall be carried captive, how that I have been broken with their lewd heart, which has departed from me, and with their eyes, which play the prostitute after their idols: and they shall loathe themselves in their own sight for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
"Therefore tell the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord GOD: "Do you pollute yourselves in the way of your fathers? And do you play the prostitute after their abominations?
"Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: 'Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitution.'"
My people consult with their wooden idol, and answer to a stick of wood. Indeed the spirit of prostitution has led them astray, and they have been unfaithful to their God.
Their deeds won't allow them to turn to their God; for the spirit of prostitution is within them, and they do not know the LORD.
Do not rejoice, Israel, to jubilation like the nations; for you were unfaithful to your God. You love the wages of a prostitute at every grain threshing floor.
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- Abominations, Idolatry Is
- Actions
- Apostasy in OT
- Causing People To Turn
- Conversion, God's demands for
- Debauchery
- Decadence
- Different Gods
- Escaping Evil
- Evil Trapping
- Faithfulness, To God
- False Religion
- Forgetting God
- Forsaking God
- God's Ways
- Harlots
- Hating Individuals
- Heart, Of Unregenerate People
- Hedonism
- Idol Worship
- Imitating Wicked People
- Ingratitude
- Lack Of Rejoicing
- Marriage, Between God And His People
- Not Returning To God
- People Polluting Themselves
- Prostitution
- Rejection Of God, Results Of
- Revelation, Responses To
- Salvation, Necessity And Basis Of
- Servants, Working Conditions Of
- Sin, Effects Of