Thematic Bible: Unfaithful to covenant engagements

“For this is what the Lord God says: I will deal with you according to what you have done, since you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant. Verse ConceptsPunishment, According To DeedsEquality Of PunishmentBreaking The Covenant

This one will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke even though I had married them”—the Lord’s declaration. Verse Conceptsdivorce, in OTHusbandsKnowing God, Effects OfMarriage, Between God And His PeopleRejection Of God, Results OfUnfaithfulness, To GodUnion With Christ, Nature OfUnity, God's Goal OfBreaking The CovenantMarriage To GodGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptGod As A Husband

In the days of King Josiah the Lord asked me, "Have you seen what unfaithful Israel has done? She has ascended every high hill and gone under every green tree to prostitute herself there. I thought: After she has done all these things, she will return to Me. But she didn't return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. I observed that it was because unfaithful Israel had committed adultery that I had sent her away and had given her a certificate of divorce. Nevertheless, her treacherous sister Judah was not afraid but also went and prostituted herself.