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Jeremiah 3:6

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The LORD said to me in the days of King Josiah: "Have you seen what she did, that faithless one, Israel, how she went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and there played the whore?

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For they also built for themselves high places and pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree,

Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty-one years in Jerusalem.

Thus they became unclean by their acts, and played the whore in their deeds.

But you, draw near, sons of the sorceress, offspring of the adulterer and the loose woman.

On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifice.

to whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.

They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words. They have gone after other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant that I made with their fathers.

while their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree and on the high hills,

She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore.

How long will you waver, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing on the earth: a woman encircles a man."

For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have been utterly treacherous to me, declares the LORD.

But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in their own counsels and the stubbornness of their evil hearts, and went backward and not forward.

building your vaulted chamber at the head of every street, and making your lofty place in every square. Yet you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.

"Therefore, O prostitute, hear the word of the LORD:

For when I had brought them into the land that I swore to give them, then wherever they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there they sent up their pleasing aromas, and there they poured out their drink offerings.

"Her sister Oholibah saw this, and she became more corrupt than her sister[2] in her lust and in her whoring, which was worse than that of her sister.

Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

My people are bent on turning away from me, and though they call out to the Most High, he shall not raise them up at all.

They sacrifice on the tops of the mountains and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is good. Therefore your daughters play the whore, and your brides commit adultery.

Yet they did not listen to their judges, for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the LORD, and they did not do so.




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