'Prostitutes' in the Bible
Then two prostitutes came to the king, and they stood before him.
There were also male shrine prostitutes in the land, and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which Yahweh had driven out from before the {Israelites}.
He put away the male shrine prostitutes from the land, and he removed all of the idols that his ancestors made.
They washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria, and the dogs licked his blood (now, the prostitutes washed themselves [there]) according to the word of Yahweh which he had spoken.
The remainder of the male shrine prostitutes who were left over in the days of Asa his father he exterminated from the land.
He tore down the shrines of the male shrine prostitutes which were in the temple of Yahweh, where the women were weaving shrines for the Asherah.
{They die in their youth}, and their life [ends] among the male shrine prostitutes.
A man who loves wisdom will make his parents glad, but the friend of prostitutes will squander his wealth.
To all prostitutes they give a fee, but you, you gave your gifts to all of your lovers, and you bribed them to come to you from all around in your whorings!
{I will not punish your daughters} when they play the whore, or your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery; because they go aside with whores, and they sacrifice with temple prostitutes, a people that does not understand comes to ruin.
Which of the two did the will of [his] father?" They said, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Truly I say to you that the tax collectors and the prostitutes are going ahead of you into the kingdom of God!
For John came to you in the way of righteousness and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did believe him. And [when] you saw [it], you did not even change your minds later [so as] to believe in him.
But when this son of yours returned--who has consumed your assets with prostitutes--you killed the fattened calf for him!'
And on her forehead a name [was] written, a mystery: "Babylon the great, the mother of prostitutes and of the detestable things of the earth."