Bible Cross References
meat
Ezekiel 16:13
You had ornaments of gold and silver, and you always wore clothes of embroidered linen and silk. You ate bread made from the best flour, and had honey and olive oil to eat. Your beauty was dazzling, and you became a queen.
Deuteronomy 32:14-17
14
Their cows and goats gave plenty of milk; they had the best sheep, goats, and cattle, the finest wheat, and the choicest wine.
15
"The LORD's people grew rich, but rebellious; they were fat and stuffed with food. They abandoned God their Creator and rejected their mighty savior.
16
Their idolatry made the LORD jealous; the evil they did made him angry.
17
They sacrificed to gods that are not real, new gods their ancestors had never known, gods that Israel had never obeyed.
Hosea 2:8-13
8
She would never acknowledge that I am the one who gave her the grain, the wine, the olive oil, and all the silver and gold that she used in the worship of Baal.
9
So at harvest time I will take back my gifts of grain and wine, and will take away the wool and the linen I gave her for clothing.
10
I will strip her naked in front of her lovers, and no one will be able to save her from my power.
11
I will put an end to all her festivities---her annual and monthly festivals and her Sabbath celebrations---all her religious meetings.
12
I will destroy her grapevines and her fig trees, which she said her lovers gave her for serving them. I will turn her vineyards and orchards into a wilderness; wild animals will destroy them.
13
I will punish her for the times that she forgot me, when she burned incense to Baal and put on her jewelry to go chasing after her lovers. The LORD has spoken.
a sweet savour
Genesis 8:21
The odor of the sacrifice pleased the LORD, and he said to himself, "Never again will I put the earth under a curse because of what people do; I know that from the time they are young their thoughts are evil. Never again will I destroy all living beings, as I have done this time.