Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Backsliding » Exemplified
Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their backs, and slew your prophets who testified against them to turn them to you, and they worked great provocations.
They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, These are your gods, O Israel, who have brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel has justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
For Israel slides back like a stubborn heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in an open pasture.
Heifer » Figurative » Of backsliders
For Israel slides back like a stubborn heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in an open pasture.
Heifer » Intractable
For Israel slides back like a stubborn heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in an open pasture.
Lambs » Illustrative » (deserted and exposed,) of israel deprived of God's protection
For Israel slides back like a stubborn heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in an open pasture.
Oxen » Heifer illustrative » (sliding back,) of backsliding israel
For Israel slides back like a stubborn heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in an open pasture.