Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Backsliding » Exemplified
But they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets who testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
They have turned aside quickly out of the way that I commanded them: they have made themselves a molten calf, and have bowed down to it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, This is thy god, Israel, who has brought thee up out of the land of Egypt!
And Jehovah said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath shewn herself more just than treacherous Judah.
For Israel is refractory as an untractable heifer; now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a wide pasture.
Heifer » Figurative » Of backsliders
For Israel is refractory as an untractable heifer; now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a wide pasture.
Heifer » Intractable
For Israel is refractory as an untractable heifer; now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a wide pasture.
Lambs » Illustrative » (deserted and exposed,) of israel deprived of God's protection
For Israel is refractory as an untractable heifer; now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a wide pasture.
Oxen » Heifer illustrative » (sliding back,) of backsliding israel
For Israel is refractory as an untractable heifer; now will Jehovah feed them as a lamb in a wide pasture.