Bible Cross References
thou shalt
Genesis 25:8
2 Samuel 7:12
When you die and are buried with your ancestors, I will make one of your sons king and will keep his kingdom strong.
Isaiah 57:2
Those who live good lives find peace and rest in death.
Acts 13:36
For David served God's purposes in his own time, and then he died, was buried with his ancestors, and his body rotted in the grave.
sleep
Job 20:11
Their bodies used to be young and vigorous, but soon they will turn to dust.
and go a
Exodus 32:6
Early the next morning they brought some animals to burn as sacrifices and others to eat as fellowship offerings. The people sat down to a feast, which turned into an orgy of drinking and sex.
Exodus 34:15
Do not make any treaties with the people of the country, because when they worship their pagan gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you to join them, and you will be tempted to eat the food they offer to their gods.
Leviticus 20:3-6
3
If any of you give one of your children to Molech and make my sacred Tent unclean and disgrace my holy name, I will turn against you and will no longer consider you my people.
4
But if the community ignores what you have done and does not put you to death,
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.
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.
Judges 2:17-20
17
But the Israelites paid no attention to their leaders. Israel was unfaithful to the LORD and worshiped other gods. Their fathers had obeyed the LORD's commands, but this new generation soon stopped doing so.
18
Whenever the LORD gave Israel a leader, the LORD would help that leader and would save the people from their enemies as long as that leader lived. The LORD would have mercy on them because they groaned under their suffering and oppression.
19
But when the leader died, the people would return to the old ways and behave worse than the previous generation. They would serve and worship other gods, and stubbornly continue their own evil ways.
20
Then the LORD would become furious with Israel and say, "This nation has broken the covenant that I commanded their ancestors to keep. Because they have not obeyed me,
Psalm 73:27
Those who abandon you will certainly perish; you will destroy those who are unfaithful to you.
Psalm 106:39
They made themselves impure by their actions and were unfaithful to God.
Isaiah 57:3-8
3
Come here to be judged, you sinners! You are no better than sorcerers, adulterers, and prostitutes.
4
Who are you making fun of ? Who are you liars jeering at?
5
You worship the fertility gods by having sex under those sacred trees of yours. You offer your children as sacrifices in the rocky caves near stream beds.
6
You take smooth stones from there and worship them as gods. You pour out wine as offerings to them and bring them grain offerings. Do you think I am pleased with all this?
7
You go to the high mountains to offer sacrifices and have sex.
8
You set up your obscene idols just inside your front doors. You forsake me; you take off your clothes and climb in your large beds with your lovers, whom you pay to sleep with you. And there you satisfy your lust.
Jeremiah 3:1-3
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!
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.
3
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 16:15
"But you took advantage of your beauty and fame to sleep with everyone who came along.
Ezekiel 16:25-36
25
You dragged your beauty through the mud. You offered yourself to everyone who came by, and you were more of a prostitute every day.
26
You let your lustful neighbors, the Egyptians, go to bed with you, and you used your prostitution to make me angry.
27
"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.
28
"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.
29
You were also a prostitute for the Babylonians, that nation of merchants, but they didn't satisfy you either."
30
This is what the Sovereign LORD is saying: "You have done all this like a shameless prostitute.
31
On every street you built places to worship idols and practice prostitution. But you are not out for money like a common prostitute.
32
You are like a woman who commits adultery with strangers instead of loving her husband.
33
A prostitute is paid, but you gave presents to all your lovers and bribed them to come from everywhere to sleep with you.
34
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."
35
Now then, Jerusalem, you whore! Hear what the LORD is saying.
36
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.
Ezekiel 23:5-8
5
Although she was mine, Oholah continued to be a prostitute and was full of lust for her lovers from Assyria.
6
They were soldiers in uniforms of purple, noblemen and high-ranking officers; all of them were handsome young cavalry officers.
7
She was the whore for all the Assyrian officers, and her lust led her to defile herself by worshiping Assyrian idols.
8
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.
Ezekiel 23:9-21
9
So I handed her over to her Assyrian lovers whom she wanted so much.
10
They stripped her naked, seized her sons and daughters, and then killed her with a sword. Women everywhere gossiped about her fate.
11
"Even though her sister Oholibah saw this, she was wilder and more of a prostitute than Oholah had ever been.
12
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.
13
I saw that she was completely immoral, that the second sister was as bad as the first.
14
"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.
16
As soon as she saw them, she was filled with lust and sent messengers to them in Babylonia.
17
The Babylonians came to have sex with her. They used her and defiled her so much that finally she became disgusted with them.
18
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.
19
She became more of a prostitute than ever, acting the way she did as a young woman, when she was a prostitute in Egypt.
20
She was filled with lust for oversexed men who had all the lustfulness of donkeys or stallions."
21
(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.)
Hosea 2:2-5
2
My children, plead with your mother---though she is no longer a wife to me, and I am no longer her husband. Plead with her to stop her adultery and prostitution.
3
If she does not, I will strip her as naked as she was on the day she was born. I will make her like a dry and barren land, and she will die of thirst.
4
I will not show mercy to her children; they are the children of a shameless prostitute. She herself said, "I will go to my lovers---they give me food and water, wool and linen, olive oil and wine."
Revelation 17:2-5
2
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."
3
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.
4
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.
5
On her forehead was written a name that has a secret meaning: "Great Babylon, the mother of all prostitutes and perverts in the world."
Revelation 19:2
True and just are his judgments! He has condemned the prostitute who was corrupting the earth with her immorality. God has punished her because she killed his servants."
forsake me
Deuteronomy 32:15
"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.
Judges 2:12
They stopped worshiping the LORD, the God of their ancestors, the God who had brought them out of Egypt, and they began to worship other gods, the gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and made the LORD angry.
Judges 10:6
Once again the Israelites sinned against the LORD by worshiping the Baals and the Astartes, as well as the gods of Syria, of Sidon, of Moab, of Ammon, and of Philistia. They abandoned the LORD and stopped worshiping him.
Judges 10:13
But you still left me and worshiped other gods, so I am not going to rescue you again.
Jeremiah 2:11-13
11
No other nation has ever changed its gods, even though they were not real. But my people have exchanged me, the God who has brought them honor, for gods that can do nothing for them.
12
And so I command the sky to shake with horror, to be amazed and astonished,
13
for my people have committed two sins: they have turned away from me, the spring of fresh water, and they have dug cisterns, cracked cisterns that can hold no water at all.
break my
Leviticus 26:15
If you refuse to obey my laws and commands and break the covenant I have made with you,
Judges 2:20
Then the LORD would become furious with Israel and say, "This nation has broken the covenant that I commanded their ancestors to keep. Because they have not obeyed me,
Jeremiah 31:32
It will not be like the old covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand and led them out of Egypt. Although I was like a husband to them, they did not keep that covenant.