Bible Cross References
If a man
Deuteronomy 24:1-4
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When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some uncleanness in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house,
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if she has departed from his house, and goes and becomes another man's wife,
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if the latter husband hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce, puts it in her hand, and sends her out of his house, or if the latter husband who took her as his wife dies,
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then her former husband who sent her away cannot take her back to be his wife after she has been defiled; for that is an abomination before Jehovah, and you shall not bring sin upon the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you as an inheritance.
shall not that
Jeremiah 3:9
So it came to pass through the wantonness of her harlotry, that she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and pieces of wood.
Jeremiah 2:7
And I brought you into a plentiful land, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled My land and made My inheritance an abomination.
Leviticus 18:24-28
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Do not defile yourselves with any of these things; for by all these the nations which I am casting out before you have been defiled;
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for the land is defiled. Therefore I am visiting its depravity upon it, and the land is vomiting out its inhabitants.
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You shall therefore keep My statutes and My judgments, and shall not do any of these abominations, neither the native nor any stranger who sojourns among you
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(for all these abominations the men who were in the land before you have done, and the land is defiled),
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that the land not also vomit you out when you defile it, as it vomited out the nations that were before you.
Isaiah 24:5
The earth is also defiled under its inhabitants; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, and have broken the perpetual covenant.
Micah 2:10
Rise up and depart. This is not your rest, for it is unclean. It shall destroy with grievous destruction.
but thou hast
Jeremiah 2:20
For long ago you broke your yoke and tore apart your bonds; and you said, I will not transgress, when on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down like a harlot.
Jeremiah 2:23
How can you say, I am not defiled; I have not gone after the Baals? See your way in the valley, know what you have done! You are a swift camel crisscrossing its ways.
Deuteronomy 22:21
then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done a disgraceful thing in Israel, to commit harlotry in her father's house. Thus you shall put away the evil from among you.
Judges 19:2
But his concubine committed adultery against him, and went away from him to her father's house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there four months of days.
Ezekiel 16:26
You also committed adultery with the Egyptians, your very fleshly neighbors, and increased your acts of harlotry to provoke Me to anger.
Ezekiel 16:28
You also committed adultery with the Assyrians, because you were insatiable; indeed you committed adultery with them and still were not satisfied.
Ezekiel 16:29
Moreover you multiplied your acts of harlotry in the land of Canaan, as far as Chaldea; and even then you were not satisfied.
Ezekiel 23:4-49
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Their names: Oholah the elder and Oholibah her sister; they were Mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem is Oholibah.
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Oholah committed adultery even though she was Mine; and she lusted for her lovers, the neighboring Assyrians,
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who were clothed in purple, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding on horses.
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Thus she committed her adultery with them, all of them choice men of Assyria; and with all for whom she lusted, with all their idols, she defiled herself.
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She has never given up her harlotry brought from Egypt, for in her youth they had lain with her, fondled her virgin breasts, and poured out their immorality upon her.
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Therefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, for whom she lusted.
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They uncovered her nakedness, took away her sons and daughters, and slew her with the sword; she became a byword among women, for they had executed judgment on her.
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Now although her sister Oholibah saw this, she became more corrupt in her lust than she, and in her harlotry, more than her sister's harlotry.
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She lusted for the neighboring Assyrians, captains and rulers, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding on horses, all of them desirable young men.
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Then I saw that she was defiled; both the same way.
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But she added to her harlotry; she looked at men portrayed on the wall, images of Chaldeans portrayed in vermilion,
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girded with waistbands around their waists, flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, in the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their birth.
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As soon as her eyes saw them, she lusted for them and sent messengers to them in Chaldea.
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And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their immorality; so she was defiled by them, and her soul was alienated from them.
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So she uncovered her harlotry and uncovered her nakedness. Then My soul was alienated from her, just as My soul was alienated from her sister.
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Yet she multiplied her harlotry in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, when she had committed adultery in the land of Egypt.
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For she lusted for her paramours, whose flesh is like the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
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Thus you called to remembrance the lewdness of your youth, when the Egyptians fondled your nipples because of your youthful breasts.
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Therefore, Oholibah, thus says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will stir up your lovers against you, from whom your soul is alienated, and I will bring them against you from every side:
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The Babylonians, all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, all the Assyrians with them, all of them desirable young men, governors and rulers, officers and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.
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And they shall come against you with chariots, wagons, and wheels, with a company of people. They shall array against you buckler, shield, and helmet all around. I will entrust judgment to them, and they shall judge you according to their judgments.
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I will set My jealousy against you, and they shall deal furiously with you; they shall remove your nose and your ears, and the rest of you shall fall by the sword; they shall take your sons and your daughters, and the rest of you shall be devoured by fire.
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They shall also strip you of your clothes and take away your beautiful jewelry.
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Thus I will make you cease your lewdness and your harlotry brought from the land of Egypt, so that you will not lift your eyes to them, nor remember Egypt anymore.
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For thus says the Lord Jehovah: Surely I will deliver you into the hand of those you hate, into the hand of those from whom your soul is alienated.
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They will deal hatefully with you, take away all you have worked for, and leave you naked and bare. The nakedness of your adultery shall be uncovered, both your lewdness and your harlotry.
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I will do these things to you because you have gone whoring after the nations, because you have become defiled by their idols.
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You have walked in the way of your sister; therefore I will put her cup into your hand.
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Thus says the Lord Jehovah: You shall drink of your sister's cup, deep and wide; you shall be laughed to scorn and held in derision; for it contains much.
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You will be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, the cup of horror and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria.
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You shall drink and drain it, you shall break its shards, and tear off your own breasts; for I have spoken, declares the Lord Jehovah.
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Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah: Because you have forgotten Me and cast Me behind your back, therefore you shall bear the penalty of your lewdness and your harlotry.
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Jehovah also said to me: Son of man, will you judge Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.
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For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols, and even sacrificed their sons whom they bore to Me, passing them through the fire, to devour them.
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Moreover they have done this to Me: They have defiled My sanctuary on the same day and profaned My Sabbaths.
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For after they had slain their children to their idols, on the same day they came into My sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, this they have done in the midst of My house.
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Furthermore you sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and there they came. And you washed yourself for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.
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You sat on a stately couch, with a table prepared before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil.
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And the sound of a multitude at ease was with her, and drunkards were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort, who put bracelets on their wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads.
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Then I said concerning her who was worn out in adulteries, Will they commit adultery with her now, and she with them?
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Yet they went in to her, as men go in to a woman of harlotry; thus they went in to Oholah and Oholibah, the lewd women.
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And righteous men will judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women who shed blood, because they are adulteresses, and blood is on their hands.
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For thus says the Lord Jehovah: Bring up an assembly against them, give them up to terror and plunder.
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And the company shall stone them with stones and cut them down with their swords. They shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn their houses with fire.
48
Thus I will bring an end to lewdness from the land, that all women may be taught not to do according to your lewdness.
49
And they shall repay you for your lewdness, and you shall pay for your idolatrous sins. And you shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah.
Hosea 1:2
The beginning of the Word of Jehovah by Hosea. And Jehovah said to Hosea, Go, take to yourself a wife of prostitution, and children of prostitution. For the land has committed adultery against Jehovah with great harlotry.
Hosea 2:5-7
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For their mother has prostituted herself; she who conceived them has behaved shamefully. For she said, I will go after my lovers who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my drink.
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Therefore, behold, I will hedge up your way with thorns, and I will close off her wall, so that she shall not find her paths.
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And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not reach to them. And she shall seek them, but shall not find them. Then she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband, for then it was better with me than now.
yet return
Jeremiah 3:12-14
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Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, O backsliding Israel, says Jehovah; and I will not cause My anger to fall upon you; for I am merciful, says Jehovah, and I will not keep anger forever.
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Only, acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Jehovah your God and have scattered your ways to strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice, says Jehovah.
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Return, O backsliding children, says Jehovah; for I am married to you. And I will take you, one from a city, and two from a family; and I will bring you to Zion.
Jeremiah 3:22-14
Jeremiah 4:1
If you will return, O Israel, says Jehovah, return to Me. And if you will put away your abominations out of My sight, then you shall not waver.
Jeremiah 4:14
O Jerusalem, wash your heart from evil so that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
Jeremiah 8:4-6
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Moreover you shall say to them, Thus says Jehovah, Shall they fall and not arise? Shall he turn away and not return?
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Why has this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a continual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return.
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I listened and heard, but they did not speak right; no man repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Everyone turned to his own course, as a horse rushes into the battle.
Deuteronomy 4:29-31
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But from there you will seek Jehovah your God, and you shall find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
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When you are in distress, and all these things have come upon you in the latter days; then when you have returned unto Jehovah your God and have obeyed His voice
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(for Jehovah your God is a merciful Mighty God), He will not forsake you nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He has sworn unto them.
Isaiah 55:6-9
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Seek Jehovah while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near.
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Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; and let him return to Jehovah, and He will have mercy on him; and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.
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For My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways My ways, says Jehovah.
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For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.
Ezekiel 33:11
Say to them: As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, I take no delight in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, O house of Israel?
Hosea 14:1-4
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O Israel, return to Jehovah your God, for you have stumbled by your iniquity.
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Take words with you and return to Jehovah. Say to Him, Take away all iniquity and receive us with grace, that we may repay with the calves of our lips.
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Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride on horses. We shall not say any more to the work of our hands, You are our gods! For in You the fatherless finds mercy.
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I will heal their backslidings; I will love them freely; for My anger has turned away from him.
Zechariah 1:3
Therefore say to them, Thus says Jehovah of Hosts: Turn back to Me, says Jehovah of Hosts, and I will turn back to you, says Jehovah of Hosts.
Luke 15:16-24
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And he would gladly have filled his stomach with the husks that the swine ate, and no one gave to him.
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But when he came to himself, he said, How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger.
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I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before you,
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and I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Make me like one of your hired servants.
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And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and was moved with compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.
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And the son said to him, Father, I have sinned against Heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.
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But the father said to his servants, Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.
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And bring the fatted calf here and kill it, and let us eat and be merry;
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for this my son was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found. And they began to be merry.