Bible Cross References
defiled
Isaiah 24:5
The people have defiled the earth by breaking God's laws and by violating the covenant he made to last forever.
Isaiah 24:6
So God has pronounced a curse on the earth. Its people are paying for what they have done. Fewer and fewer remain alive.
Isaiah 59:3
You are guilty of lying, violence, and murder.
Ezekiel 20:18
Instead, I warned the young people among them: Do not keep the laws your ancestors made; do not follow their customs or defile yourselves with their idols.
Ezekiel 20:30
Now tell the Israelites what I am saying: Why must you commit the same sins your ancestors did and go running after their idols?
Ezekiel 20:31
Even today you offer the same gifts and defile yourselves with the same idols by sacrificing your children to them in the fire. And then you Israelites still come to ask what my will is! As surely as I, the Sovereign LORD, am the living God, I will not let you ask me anything.
Ezekiel 20:43
Then you will remember all the disgraceful things you did and how you defiled yourselves. You will be disgusted with yourselves because of all the evil things you did.
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Exodus 34:16
Your sons might marry those foreign women, who would lead them to be unfaithful to me and to worship their pagan gods.
Leviticus 17:7
The people of Israel must no longer be unfaithful to the LORD by killing their animals in the fields as sacrifices to the goat demons. The people of Israel must keep this regulation for all time to come.
Leviticus 20:5
I myself will turn against you and your whole family and against all who join you in being unfaithful to me and worshiping Molech. I will no longer consider any of you my people.
Leviticus 20:6
"If any of you go for advice to people who consult the spirits of the dead, I will turn against you and will no longer consider you one of my people.
Numbers 15:39
The tassels will serve as reminders, and each time you see them you will remember all my commands and obey them; then you will not turn away from me and follow your own wishes and desires.
Jeremiah 3:1
The LORD says, "If a man divorces his wife, and she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, he cannot take her back again. This would completely defile the land. But, Israel, you have had many lovers, and now you want to return to me!
Jeremiah 3:2
Look up at the hilltops. Is there any place where you have not acted like a prostitute? You waited for lovers along the roadside, as an Arab waits for victims in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution.
Jeremiah 3:6-9
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When Josiah was king, the LORD said to me, "Have you seen what Israel, that unfaithful woman, has done? She has turned away from me, and on every high hill and under every green tree she has acted like a prostitute.
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I thought that after she had done all this, she would surely return to me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it all.
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Judah also saw that I divorced Israel and sent her away because she had turned from me and had become a prostitute. But Judah, Israel's unfaithful sister, was not afraid. She too became a prostitute
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and was not at all ashamed. She defiled the land, and she committed adultery by worshiping stones and trees.
Ezekiel 16:15-63
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"But you took advantage of your beauty and fame to sleep with everyone who came along.
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You used some of your clothes to decorate your places of worship, and just like a prostitute, you gave yourself to everyone.
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You took the silver and gold jewelry that I had given you, used it to make male images, and committed adultery with them.
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You took the embroidered clothes I gave you and put them on the images, and you offered to the images the olive oil and incense I had given you.
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I gave you food---the best flour, olive oil, and honey---but you offered it as a sacrifice to win the favor of idols." This is what the Sovereign LORD says.
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"Then you took the sons and the daughters you had borne me and offered them as sacrifices to idols. Wasn't it bad enough to be unfaithful to me,
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without taking my children and sacrificing them to idols?
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During your disgusting life as a prostitute you never once remembered your childhood---when you were naked, squirming in your own blood."
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The Sovereign LORD said, "You are doomed! Doomed! You did all that evil, and then
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by the side of every road you built places to worship idols and practice prostitution.
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You dragged your beauty through the mud. You offered yourself to everyone who came by, and you were more of a prostitute every day.
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You let your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, go to bed with you, and you used your prostitution to make me angry.
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"Now I have raised my hand to punish you and to take away your share of my blessing. I have handed you over to the Philistines, who hate you and are disgusted with your immoral actions.
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"Because you were not satisfied by the others, you went running after the Assyrians. You were their prostitute, but they didn't satisfy you either.
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You were also a prostitute for the Babylonians, that nation of merchants, but they didn't satisfy you either."
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This is what the Sovereign LORD is saying: "You have done all this like a shameless prostitute.
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On every street you built places to worship idols and practice prostitution. But you are not out for money like a common prostitute.
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You are like a woman who commits adultery with strangers instead of loving her husband.
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A prostitute is paid, but you gave presents to all your lovers and bribed them to come from everywhere to sleep with you.
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You are a special kind of prostitute. No one forced you to become one. You didn't get paid; you paid them! Yes, you are different."
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Now then, Jerusalem, you whore! Hear what the LORD is saying.
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This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "You stripped off your clothes, and like a prostitute, you gave yourself to your lovers and to all your disgusting idols, and you killed your children as sacrifices to idols.
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Because of this I will bring all your former lovers together---the ones you liked and the ones you hated. I will bring them around you in a circle, and then I will strip off your clothes and let them see you naked.
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I will condemn you for adultery and murder, and in my anger and fury I will punish you with death.
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I will put you in their power, and they will tear down the places where you engage in prostitution and worship idols. They will take away your clothes and jewels and leave you completely naked.
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"They will stir up a crowd to stone you, and they will cut you to pieces with their swords.
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They will burn your houses down and let crowds of women see your punishment. I will make you stop being a prostitute and make you stop giving gifts to your lovers.
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Then my anger will be over, and I will be calm. I will not be angry or jealous any more.
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You have forgotten how I treated you when you were young, and you have made me angry by all the things you did. That is why I have made you pay for them all. Why did you add sexual immorality to all the other disgusting things you did?" The Sovereign LORD has spoken.
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The LORD said, "People will use this proverb about you, Jerusalem: 'Like mother, like daughter.'
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You really are your mother's daughter. She detested her husband and her children. You are like your sisters, who hated their husbands and their children. You and your sister cities had a Hittite mother and an Amorite father.
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"Your older sister, with her villages, is Samaria, in the north. Your younger sister, with her villages, is Sodom, in the south.
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Were you satisfied to follow in their footsteps and copy their disgusting actions? No, in only a little while you were acting worse than they were in everything you did.
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"As surely as I am the living God," the Sovereign LORD says, "your sister Sodom and her villages never did the evil that you and your villages have done.
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She and her daughters were proud because they had plenty to eat and lived in peace and quiet, but they did not take care of the poor and the underprivileged.
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They were proud and stubborn and did the things that I hate, so I destroyed them, as you well know.
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"Samaria did not sin half as much as you have. You have acted more disgustingly than she ever did. Your corruption makes your sisters look innocent by comparison.
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And now you will have to endure your disgrace. Your sins are so much worse than those of your sisters that they look innocent beside you. Now blush and bear your shame, because you make your sisters look pure."
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The LORD said to Jerusalem, "I will make them prosperous again---Sodom and her villages and Samaria and her villages. Yes, I will make you prosperous too.
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You will be ashamed of yourself, and your disgrace will show your sisters how well-off they are.
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They will become prosperous again, and you and your villages will also be restored.
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Didn't you joke about Sodom in those days when you were proud
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and before the evil you did had been exposed? Now you are just like her---a joke to the Edomites, the Philistines, and your other neighbors who hate you.
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You must suffer for the obscene, disgusting things you have done." The LORD has spoken.
59
The Sovereign LORD says, "I will treat you the way you deserve, because you ignored your promises and broke the covenant.
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But I will honor the covenant I made with you when you were young, and I will make a covenant with you that will last forever.
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You will remember how you have acted, and be ashamed of it when you get your older sister and your younger sister back. I will let them be like daughters to you, even though this was not part of my covenant with you.
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I will renew my covenant with you, and you will know that I am the LORD.
63
I will forgive all the wrongs you have done, but you will remember them and be too ashamed to open your mouth." The Sovereign LORD has spoken.
Ezekiel 23:3-49
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When they were young, living in Egypt, they lost their virginity and became prostitutes.
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The older one was named Oholah (she represents Samaria), and the younger one was named Oholibah (she represents Jerusalem). I married both of them, and they bore me children.
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Although she was mine, Oholah continued to be a prostitute and was full of lust for her lovers from Assyria.
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They were soldiers in uniforms of purple, noblemen and high-ranking officers; all of them were handsome young cavalry officers.
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She was the whore for all the Assyrian officers, and her lust led her to defile herself by worshiping Assyrian idols.
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She continued what she had begun as a prostitute in Egypt, where she lost her virginity. From the time she was a young woman, men slept with her and treated her like a prostitute.
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So I handed her over to her Assyrian lovers whom she wanted so much.
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They stripped her naked, seized her sons and daughters, and then killed her with a sword. Women everywhere gossiped about her fate.
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"Even though her sister Oholibah saw this, she was wilder and more of a prostitute than Oholah had ever been.
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She too was full of lust for the Assyrian noblemen and officers---soldiers in bright uniforms---and for the cavalry officers, all of those handsome young men.
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I saw that she was completely immoral, that the second sister was as bad as the first.
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"She sank deeper and deeper in her immorality. She was attracted by the images of high Babylonian officials carved into the wall and painted bright red, with sashes around their waists and fancy turbans on their heads.
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As soon as she saw them, she was filled with lust and sent messengers to them in Babylonia.
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The Babylonians came to have sex with her. They used her and defiled her so much that finally she became disgusted with them.
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She exposed herself publicly and let everyone know she was a whore. I was as disgusted with her as I had been with her sister.
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She became more of a prostitute than ever, acting the way she did as a young woman, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.
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She was filled with lust for oversexed men who had all the lustfulness of donkeys or stallions."
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(Oholibah, you wanted to repeat the immorality you were guilty of as a young woman in Egypt, where men played with your breasts and you lost your virginity.)
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"Now then, Oholibah, this is what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying to you. You are tired of those lovers, but I will make them angry with you and bring them to surround you.
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I will bring all the Babylonians and Chaldeans, men from Pekod, Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians. I will gather all those handsome young noblemen and officers, all those important officials and high-ranking cavalry officers.
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They will attack you from the north, bringing a large army with chariots and supply wagons. Protected by shields and helmets, they will surround you. I will hand you over to them, and they will judge you by their own laws.
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Because I am angry with you, I will let them deal with you in their anger. They will cut off your nose and your ears and kill your children. Yes, they will take your sons and daughters from you and burn them alive.
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They will tear off your clothes and take your jewels.
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I will put a stop to your lust and to the obscenities you have committed ever since you were in Egypt. You won't look at any more idols or think about Egypt any more."
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This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "I will hand you over to people you hate and are disgusted with.
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And because they hate you, they will take away everything you have worked for and leave you stripped naked, exposed like a prostitute. Your lust and your prostitution
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have brought this on you. You were a prostitute for the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.
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You followed in your sister's footsteps, and so I will give you the same cup of punishment to drink."
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The Sovereign LORD says, "You will drink from your sister's cup; it is large and deep. Everyone will scorn and mock you; the cup is full.
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It will make you miserable and drunk, that cup of fear and ruin, your sister Samaria's cup.
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You will drink and drain it dry, and with its broken pieces tear your breast. I, the Sovereign LORD, have spoken."
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Now this is what the Sovereign LORD is saying: "Because you forgot me and turned your back on me, you will suffer for your lust and your prostitution."
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The LORD said to me, "Mortal man, are you ready to judge Oholah and Oholibah? Accuse them of the disgusting things they have done.
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They have committed adultery and murder---adultery with idols and murder of the children they bore me. They sacrificed my children to their idols.
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And that is not all they did. They profaned my Temple and broke the Sabbath, which I had established.
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The very day that they killed my children as sacrifices to idols, they came to my Temple and profaned it!
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"Again and again they sent messengers to invite men to come from a great distance, and the men came. The two sisters would bathe and put on eye shadow and jewelry.
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They would sit on a beautiful couch, and in front of them they would have a table covered with good things, including the incense and the olive oil that I had given them.
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The sound of a carefree crowd could be heard, a group of men brought in from the desert. They put bracelets on the women's arms and beautiful crowns on their heads.
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And I said to myself that they were using as a prostitute a woman worn out by adultery.
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They went back to these prostitutes again and again. They went back to Oholah and Oholibah, those immoral women.
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Righteous men will condemn them on the charge of adultery and murder, because they practice adultery and their hands are stained with blood."
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This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "Bring a mob to terrorize them and rob them.
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Let the mob stone them and attack them with swords, kill their children, and burn down their houses.
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Throughout the land I will put a stop to immorality, as a warning to every woman not to commit adultery as they did.
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And you two sisters---I will punish you for your immorality and your sin of worshiping idols. Then you will know that I am the Sovereign LORD."
Hosea 9:1
People of Israel, stop celebrating your festivals like pagans. You have turned away from your God and have been unfaithful to him. All over the land you have sold yourselves like prostitutes to the god Baal and have loved the grain you thought he paid you with!
Revelation 17:1-6
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Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came to me and said, "Come, and I will show you how the famous prostitute is to be punished, that great city that is built near many rivers.
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The kings of the earth practiced sexual immorality with her, and the people of the world became drunk from drinking the wine of her immorality."
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The Spirit took control of me, and the angel carried me to a desert. There I saw a woman sitting on a red beast that had names insulting to God written all over it; the beast had seven heads and ten horns.
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The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and covered with gold ornaments, precious stones, and pearls. In her hand she held a gold cup full of obscene and filthy things, the result of her immorality.
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On her forehead was written a name that has a secret meaning: "Great Babylon, the mother of all prostitutes and perverts in the world."
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And I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of God's people and the blood of those who were killed because they had been loyal to Jesus. When I saw her, I was completely amazed.