Thematic Bible: Unfaithful to covenant engagements


Thematic Bible



"For thus says the Lord GOD: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant, Verse ConceptsPunishment, According To DeedsEquality Of PunishmentBreaking The Covenant

not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD. 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

The LORD said to me in the days of King Josiah: "Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the whore? And I thought, 'After she has done all this she will return to me,' but she did not return, and her treacherous sister Judah saw it. She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore.

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