Ezekiel 16:15

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\{God said,\} “But you began to trust in your beauty. You used the good name you had and became unfaithful to me. You acted like a prostitute {\cf2\super [121]} with every man that passed by. You gave yourself to them all!

Cross References

1 Kings 11:5

Solomon worshiped Ashtoreth. [143] This was the god of the people of Sidon. And Solomon worshiped Milcom. [144] This was that horrible idol of the Ammonite people.

1 Kings 12:28

So the king asked his advisers what he should do. {They gave him their advice.} So Jeroboam made two golden calves. King Jeroboam said to the people, “You should not go to Jerusalem to worship. Israel, these are the gods that brought you out of Egypt.” [155]

2 Kings 17:7

These things happened because the Israelites had sinned against the Lord their God. And it was the Lord that brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt! The Lord saved them from the power of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. But the Israelites began worshiping other gods.

2 Kings 21:3

Manasseh built again the high places [251] that his father Hezekiah had destroyed. Manasseh also built altars [252] for Baal [253] and made an Asherah pole, [254] just like Ahab king of Israel. Manasseh worshiped and served the stars of heaven.

Psalm 106:35

They mixed with the other people,\par and did what those people were doing.\par

Isaiah 1:21

\{God says,\} “Look at Jerusalem. She was a city that trusted and followed me. What caused her to become like a prostitute? {\cf2\super [12]} She does not follow me now. Jerusalem should be filled with fairness. People living in Jerusalem should live the way God wants. But now, murderers live there.

Isaiah 48:1

The Lord says,\par “Family of Jacob, listen to me!\par You people call yourself ‘Israel.’\par You are from Judah’s family.\par You use the Lord’s name to make promises.\par You praise the God of Israel.\par But you are not honest and sincere\par when you do these things.”\par

Isaiah 57:8

Then you get in those beds\par and sin against me by loving\par those gods.\par You love those gods,\par You enjoy looking at their naked bodies.\par You were with me,\par but you left me to be with them.\par You hide the things that help you\par remember me.\par You hide those things\par behind the doors and door posts. {\cf2\super [443]} \par And then you go and make agreements\par with those false gods.\par

Jeremiah 2:20

“Judah, a long time ago you threw off\par your yoke.\par You broke the ropes\par \{that I used to control you\}.\par You said to me,\par ‘I will not serve you!’\par You were like a prostitute\par on every high hill\par and under every green tree. {\cf2\super [11]} \par

Jeremiah 3:1

“If a man divorces his wife,\par and she leaves him\par and marries another man,\par can that man come back to his wife again?\par No! If that man went back to that woman, {\cf2\super [14]} \par then that land would become ‘dirty.’\par Judah, you acted like a prostitute\par with many lovers (false gods).\par And now you want to come back to me!”\par This message was from the Lord.\par

Jeremiah 7:4

Don’t trust the lies that some people say. They say, “This is the temple {\cf2\super [52]} of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord {\cf2\super [53]} !”

Ezekiel 16:16

You took your beautiful clothes and used them to decorate your places of worship. And you acted like a prostitute in those places. You gave yourself to every man that came by!

Ezekiel 16:25

You built your mounds at the head of every road. Then you degraded your beauty. You used it to catch every man that walked by. You raised your skirt so they could see your legs, and then you were like a prostitute {\cf2\super [123]} with those men.

Ezekiel 20:8

But they turned against me and refused to listen to me. They did not throw away their horrible idols. They did not leave their filthy statues in Egypt. So I (God) decided to destroy them in Egypt—to let them feel the full force of my anger.

Ezekiel 23:3

They became prostitutes {\cf2\super [179]} in Egypt while they were still young girls. In Egypt, they first made love and let men touch their nipples and hold their young breasts.

Ezekiel 23:8

Besides that, she never stopped her love affair with Egypt. Egypt made love to her when she was a young girl. Egypt was the first lover to touch her young breasts. Egypt poured his untrue love on her.

Ezekiel 27:3

Say these things about Tyre:

Ezekiel 33:13

“Maybe I will tell a good person that he will live. But maybe that good person will begin to think that the good things he did in the past will save him. So he might begin to do bad things. But I won’t remember the good things he did in the past! No, he will die because of the bad things he begins to do.

Hosea 1:2

This was the Lord’s first message to Hosea. The Lord said, “Go, marry a prostitute {\cf2\super [1]} that has had children as a result of her prostitution. Why? Because the people in this country have acted like prostitutes—they have been unfaithful to the Lord.”

Hosea 4:10

They will eat, but they will not be satisfied! They will do sexual sins, but they will not have babies. {\cf2\super [36]} Why? Because they left the Lord and became like prostitutes. {\cf2\super [37]}

Hosea 4:18

“Ephraim has joined their drunkenness. Let them continue to be prostitutes. Let them be with their lovers.

Hosea 9:1

Israel, don’t celebrate like the nations do! Don’t be happy! You acted like a prostitute {\cf2\super [84]} and left your God. You did your sexual sin {\cf2\super [85]} on every threshing floor. {\cf2\super [86]}

Micah 3:11

The judges in Jerusalem accept bribes\par to help them decide who wins in court.\par The priests in Jerusalem must be paid\par before they will teach the people.\par People must pay the prophets\par before they will look into the future.\par And then those leaders expect the Lord\par to help them. They say,\par “The Lord lives here with us.\par So nothing bad will happen to us.”\par

Zephaniah 3:11

“Then, Jerusalem, you will no longer be ashamed of the bad things your people do against me. Why? Because I will remove all of those bad people from Jerusalem. I will take away all of those proud people. There won’t be any of those proud people on my holy mountain. {\cf2\super [21]}

Matthew 3:9

And don’t think that you can boast and say to yourselves, ‘Abraham {\cf2\super [39]} is our father.’ I tell you that God could make children for Abraham from these rocks here.

Deuteronomy 32:15

“But Jeshurun [212] became fat and kicked {like a bull}. (Yes, you people were fed well! You became full and fat!) Then he left the God who made him! He ran away from the Rock who saved him.

Revelation 17:5

She had a title written on her forehead. This title has a hidden meaning. This is what was written:

Judges 10:6

Again the people of Israel did things the Lord said are evil. They began worshiping the false gods Baal [93] and the Ashtoreth. [94] They also worshiped the gods of the people of Aram, the gods of the people of Sidon, the gods of the people of Moab, the gods of the people of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistine people. The people of Israel left the Lord and stopped serving him.

Judges 2:12

The Lord had brought the people of Israel out of Egypt. And the ancestors [17] of these people had worshiped the Lord. But the people of Israel quit following the Lord. The people of Israel began to worship the false gods of the people living around them. That made the Lord angry.

Judges 3:6

The people of Israel began to marry the daughters of those people. The people of Israel allowed their own daughters to marry the sons of those people. And the people of Israel began to worship the gods of those people.