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'Lovers' in the Bible

They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.

Verse Conceptsdivorce, in OTSin, Effects OfPolluting The LandDivorceLeaving Parents For SpouseWaiting Till Marriagepotential

And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.

Verse ConceptsCrimsonAdornment, Of WomenGoldCosmeticsRed ClothesUseless LabourAttempting To KillWearing Jewelleryloversmakeup

Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.

The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.

Verse ConceptsdisgraceWindShame Of Bad Conduct

All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toChastisementNot Seeking PeopleForgetting PeopleWoundsFriends FailingGod As EnemyAll Have Sinned

She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

Verse ConceptsCheeksBetrayalNightFeelings Of Rejection By GodWeepingAfflictions, Consolation DuringHanding Over PeopleFriends FailingNo ComfortPeople Mourning Catastrophe

I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.

Verse ConceptsAliancesTrapSeeking FoodJudgement On Old PeopleDeath Of Office HoldersDeposed PriestsThose Who DeceivedMisleading Children

They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom.

Verse ConceptsEffect Of BribesPaying For Goodswhores

Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;

Verse ConceptsNakednessHuman Blood ShedIdol WorshipFate Of IdolatersPrivate Parts

Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

Verse ConceptsDenunciationsLooking At People For EvilGathering FriendsPeople Being Hatedlovers

And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,

Verse ConceptsHarlots

Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;

Verse ConceptsPeople OpposedGod Urging

For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.

Verse ConceptsBad Decision Making ExamplesWaterWoolBarteringHarlotsConceptionMan Providing WaterProvision Of OilPeople Providing FoodShame Of Bad Conduct

And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Between God And His PeopleUnion With Christ, Nature OfOvertakingNot FindingPersonal GoodSeeking But Not Finding PeopleFinding Lovelovers

And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.

Verse ConceptsLewdnessGod Stripping PeopleNo One Can SaveThey Committed Immorality

And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

Verse ConceptsForestsFig treeAnimals, religious role ofVinesDestruction Of PlantsWild Animals DevouringWages Of A Prostitute

And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat me, saith the LORD.

Verse ConceptsForgettingOrnamentsPast, TheRingsWearing Jewellery

For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.

Verse ConceptsActing AloneWild DonkeysNorthern Kingdom Of Israel

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