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Isa. 57:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: forb thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and γmade thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed δwhere thou sawest it.

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Ezek. 16:25• ²⁵thou didst build thy high place at every head of the way, and madest thy beauty to be abhorred, and thou didst open thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiply thy whoredom. (Ezek. 16:25)

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Ezek. 23:2• ²Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother. (Ezek. 23:2)

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or, hewed it for thyself larger than theirs.

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or, thou providedst room.

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the doors.

Ezek. 8:8‑12• ⁸And he said unto me, Son of man, dig now through the wall; and I digged through the wall, and behold, a door.
⁹And he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do here.
¹⁰And I went in and looked, and behold, every form of creeping thing and abominable beast, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about.
¹¹And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
¹²And he said unto me, Hast thou seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every one in his chambers of imagery? for they say, Jehovah seeth us not; Jehovah hath forsaken the land. (Ezek. 8:8‑12)

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Ezek. 23:14,41• ¹⁴And she increased her fornications; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,
⁴¹and satest upon a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hadst set mine incense and mine oil. (Ezek. 23:14,41)

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Ezek. 16:32• ³²O adulterous wife, that taketh strangers instead of her husband. (Ezek. 16:32)

made thee a covenant with them.

or, hewed it for thyselflarger than theirs.

thou lovedst.

Ezek. 16:25‑28• ²⁵thou didst build thy high place at every head of the way, and madest thy beauty to be abhorred, and thou didst open thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiply thy whoredom.
²⁶And thou didst commit fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and didst multiply thy whoredom to provoke me to anger.
²⁷And behold, I stretched out my hand over thee, and diminished thine appointed portion; and I gave thee over unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, who were confounded at thy lewd way.
²⁸And thou didst commit fornication with the Assyrians, because thou wast insatiable; yea, thou didst commit fornication with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied. (Ezek. 16:25‑28)

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Ezek. 23:2‑20• ²Son of man, there were two women, daughters of one mother.
³And they committed whoredom in Egypt; they committed whoredom in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there were handled the teats of their virginity.
⁴And their names were Oholah the elder, and Oholibah her sister; and they were mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names: Samaria is Oholah, and Jerusalem Oholibah.
⁵And Oholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians her neighbours,
⁶clothed with blue, governors and rulers, all of them attractive young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
⁷And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, all of them the choice of the children of Asshur; and with all after whom she lusted, with all their idols she defiled herself.
⁸Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt; for in her youth they had lain with her, and had handled the breasts of her virginity, and poured their fornication upon her.
⁹Therefore I gave her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the children of Asshur, after whom she lusted.
¹⁰These discovered her nakedness, they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword; and she became a name among women; and they executed judgment upon her.
¹¹And her sister Oholibah saw this, and was more corrupt in her passion than she, and in her fornications more than the whoredoms of her sister.
¹²She lusted after the children of Asshur her neighbours, governors and rulers, clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them attractive young men.
¹³And I saw that she was defiled: both took one way.
¹⁴And she increased her fornications; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,
¹⁵girded with girdles upon their loins, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them captains in appearance, after the likeness of the children of Babylon, of Chaldea, the land of their nativity.
¹⁶And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she lusted after them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
¹⁷And the children of Babylon came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their fornication; she too defiled herself with them, and her soul was alienated from them.
¹⁸And she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness; and my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.
¹⁹Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she played the harlot in the land of Egypt;
²⁰and she lusted after their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is as the issue of horses. (Ezek. 23:2‑20)

where thou sawest it.

or, thou providest room.

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Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for apart from me, thou hast uncovered thyself, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and hast made agreement with them; thou lovedst their bed, thou sawest their nakedness.