Bible Cross References
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Jeremiah 2:27
You will all be disgraced---you that say that a tree is your father and that a rock is your mother. This will happen because you turned away from me instead of turning to me. But when you are in trouble, you ask me to come and save you.
Jeremiah 10:8
All of them are stupid and foolish. What can they learn from wooden idols?
Ezekiel 21:21
The king of Babylonia stands by the signpost at the fork of the road. To discover which way to go, he shakes the arrows; he consults his idols; he examines the liver of a sacrificed animal.
Habakkuk 2:19
You are doomed! You say to a piece of wood, "Wake up!" or to a block of stone, "Get up!" Can an idol reveal anything to you? It may be covered with silver and gold, but there is no life in it.
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Hosea 5:4
The evil that the people have done keeps them from returning to their God. Idolatry has a powerful hold on them, and they do not acknowledge the LORD.
Isaiah 44:18-20
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Such people are too stupid to know what they are doing. They close their eyes and their minds to the truth.
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The maker of idols hasn't the wit or the sense to say, "Some of the wood I burned up. I baked some bread on the coals, and I roasted meat and ate it. And the rest of the wood I made into an idol. Here I am bowing down to a block of wood!"
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It makes as much sense as eating ashes. His foolish ideas have so misled him that he is beyond help. He won't admit to himself that the idol he holds in his hand is not a god at all.
Micah 2:11
"These people want the kind of prophet who goes around full of lies and deceit and says, 'I prophesy that wine and liquor will flow for you.'
2 Thessalonians 2:9-11
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The Wicked One will come with the power of Satan and perform all kinds of false miracles and wonders,
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and use every kind of wicked deceit on those who will perish. They will perish because they did not welcome and love the truth so as to be saved.
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And so God sends the power of error to work in them so that they believe what is false.
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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!
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.
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.
Deuteronomy 31:16
The LORD said to Moses, "You will soon die, and after your death the people will become unfaithful to me and break the covenant that I made with them. They will abandon me and worship the pagan gods of the land they are about to enter.
2 Chronicles 21:13
Instead, you have followed the example of the kings of Israel and have led the people of Judah and Jerusalem into being unfaithful to God, just as Ahab and his successors led Israel into unfaithfulness. You even murdered your brothers, who were better men than you are.
Psalm 73:27
Those who abandon you will certainly perish; you will destroy those who are unfaithful to you.
Jeremiah 3:1-3
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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!
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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.
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That is why the rains were held back, and the spring showers did not come. You even look like a prostitute; you have no shame.
Ezekiel 16:1-63
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The LORD spoke to me again.
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"Mortal man," he said, "point out to Jerusalem what disgusting things she has done.
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Tell Jerusalem what the Sovereign LORD is saying to her: "You were born in the land of Canaan. Your father was an Amorite, and your mother was a Hittite.
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When you were born, no one cut your umbilical cord or washed you or rubbed you with salt or wrapped you in cloths.
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No one took enough pity on you to do any of these things for you. When you were born, no one loved you. You were thrown out in an open field.
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"Then I passed by and saw you squirming in your own blood. You were covered with blood, but I wouldn't let you die.
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I made you grow like a healthy plant. You grew strong and tall and became a young woman. Your breasts were well-formed, and your hair had grown, but you were naked.
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"As I passed by again, I saw that the time had come for you to fall in love. I covered your naked body with my coat and promised to love you. Yes, I made a marriage covenant with you, and you became mine." This is what the Sovereign LORD says.
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"Then I took water and washed the blood off you. I rubbed olive oil on your skin.
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I dressed you in embroidered gowns and gave you shoes of the best leather, a linen headband, and a silk cloak.
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I put jewels on you---bracelets and necklaces.
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I gave you a nose ring and earrings and a beautiful crown to wear.
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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.
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You became famous in every nation for your perfect beauty, because I was the one who made you so lovely." This is what the Sovereign LORD says.
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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.
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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.
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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 23:1-49
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"Mortal man," he said, "there were once two sisters.
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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."