About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”
If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by prostituting herself, she profanes her father; she must be burned in the fire.
Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of E
And they slept with her as with a prostitute; they slept with Oholah and Oholibah, those lewd women.
Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors
But she was unfaithful to him and left him to return to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. After she had been the
For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers,
Keep your belief about such matters between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he
But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”
Because of them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the LORD make you like Zedekiah an
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man wh
Then you prostituted yourself with the Assyrians, because you were not yet satisfied. Even after that, you were still no
Though you prostitute yourself, O Israel, may Judah avoid such guilt! Do not journey to Gilgal, do not go up to Beth-ave
Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on e
Then I said to her, “You must live with me for many days; you must not be promiscuous or belong to another, and I will d
Then Abimelech called Abraham and asked, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought
One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you hav
Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over
“Do not judge, or you will be judged.
Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.
But because of your fame, you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot. You lavished your favors on everyone who pas
She saw that because faithless Israel had committed adultery, I gave her a certificate of divorce and sent her away. Yet
Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. I will put an end to y
If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress mu
David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves
she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she h
“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and u
You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on another. For on whatever grounds you judge the other, you are c
Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet; he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not restore her, b
“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be com