“For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians.
Even their children remember their altars and Asherah poles by the green trees and on the high hills.
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
See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now o
On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, I will break the yoke off their necks and tear off their bonds, and no longer w
who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the cle
So the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God and obey His voice.”
But because of your fame, you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot. You lavished your favors on everyone who pas
Then they cried out to the LORD and said, ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the LORD and served the Baals and Ashtor
you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square.
Oholah prostituted herself while she was still Mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians—warriors
Go near and listen to all that the LORD our God says. Then you can tell us everything the LORD our God tells you; we wil
But when you built your mounds at the head of every street and made your lofty shrines in every public square, you were
When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered
Today you have proclaimed that the LORD is your God and that you will walk in His ways, keep His statutes and commandmen
Then you prostituted yourself with the Assyrians, because you were not yet satisfied. Even after that, you were still no
“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
So they answered Joshua, “Everything you have commanded us we will do, and everywhere you send us we will go.
For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered
I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spaci
When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All th
For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burden, the bar across their shoulders, and the rod of
Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong h
For I will now break their yoke from your neck and tear away your shackles.”
Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, a
For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers,
On that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders, and the yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because
They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
Joshua recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak
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
Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; that is why I am giving you this
I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden
And all the people answered together, “We will do everything that the LORD has spoken.” So Moses brought their words bac
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