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Who is the Harlot of Babylon?
What does this have to do with the adulterous generation of Matthew 12:39 and the Corban of the Pharisees?
Why is it said to ride a beast?
What does the beast represent?
Who are her daughters?
A bride serves out of love but a harlot does it for money. Who are the "strange women" of Proverbs?
And what does a strange woman have to do with strange fire?[1] Is the harlot, the strange woman? Is it a symbol of the false church? What does she look like, and what does she teach? Are they the harlots of false religion who ride the beast that goes about and devours who they will? Do we give power to the beast when we bite one another with our covetous practices?
Whoredom
The word whoredom is from one of 2 Hebrew words, zanuwn ZayinNunVavNun[2] from the word zanah ZayinNunHey[3] often translated whore or it is from the word taznuwth TavZayinNunVavTav used by Ezekiel[4] but from the same word zanah. It is akin to Adultery and Fornication.
Exodus 34:15 "Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring[3] after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;"
Who are these gods?
Those sacrifices are the dainties of rulers and the wages of unrighteousness that come from the princes of the gentiles who exercise authority.[5]
Philosophers, historians, and prophets have warned us that we should not have an appetite for those benefits because they willdegenerate the masses and turn the people into perfect savages ushering in tribute of tyrants who exercise authority.
Because the people are biting one anther you are devoured.[6]
This national adultery warning is repeated in Exodus 34:16 "And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring[3] after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring[3] after their gods."
- ↑ Proverbs 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, [even] from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words;
- Proverbs 5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop [as] an honeycomb, and her mouth [is] smoother than oil:
- Proverbs 5:20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
- Proverbs 6:24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
- Proverbs 7:5 That they may keep thee from the strange(זָרָ֑ה) woman(מֵאִשָּׁ֣ה), from the stranger [which] flattereth with her words.
- [[Proverbs 20][:16 Take his garment that is surety [for] a stranger: and take a pledge of him for a strange(זָ֑ר) woman((נָכְרִיָּ֣ה)).
- Proverbs 22:14 The mouth of strange women (זָר֑וֹת) [is] a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
- Proverbs 23:27 For a whore [is] a deep ditch; and a strange woman(נָכְרִיָּֽה׃) [is] a narrow pit.
- Proverbs 23:33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women (זָר֑וֹת), and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
- Proverbs 27:13 Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.
- ↑ 02183 זָנוּן ZayinNunVavNun zanuwn [zaw-noon’] or (plural) זונים from 02181 ZayinNunHey; n m p; [BDB-276a] [{See TWOT on 563 @@ "563a" }] AV-whoredoms 12; 12
- 1) adultery, fornication, prostitution
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 02181 זָנָה ZayinNunHey zanah [zaw-naw’] a primitive root [highly-fed and therefore wanton]; v; [BDB-275b] [{See TWOT on 563 }] AV- … harlot 36, go a whoring 19, … whoredom 15, whore 11, commit fornication 3, whorish 3, harlot + 0802 2, commit 1, continually 1, great 1, whore’s + 0802 1; 93
- 1) to commit fornication, be a harlot, play the harlot
- We can see the idea of national adultery or the use of force when the Tav related to faith or Lamed (hand) or Vav (separation or union) is included with or adjacent to the ZayinNunHey
- In Isaiah 23:17 we see wə·zā·nə·ṯāh וְזָֽנְתָ֛ה VavZayinNunTavHey which references Tyre and "her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms".
- In Isaiah 23:17 we see the Hebrew: וְשָׁבָ֖ה לְאֶתְנַנָּ֑ה וְזָֽנְתָ֛ה אֶת־ כָּל־
- where the word ethnan (0868) containing the root אֶתְנַ AlefTavNun is seen as לְאֶתְנַנָּ֑ה translated to her hire
- In Hosea 9:1 we see zā·nî·ṯā ZayinNunYodTav זָנִ֖יתָ Translated in
- NAS: "like the nations! For you have played the harlot, forsaking"
- KJV: "as [other] people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God,"
- We see לִזְנ֖וֹת LamedZayinNunVavTav liz·nō·wṯ in Leviticus 20:5-6 and Leviticus 21:9 along with Numbers 25:1 and Deuteronomy 22:21. We see lə·haz·nō·w·ṯāh לְהַזְנוֹתָ֑הּ LamedHeyZayinNunVavTavHey in Leviticus 19:29
- ↑ 08457 תַּזְנוּת TavZayinNunVavTav taznuwth [taz-nooth’] or
תזנת TavAyinNunTav taznuth [taz-nooth’] from 02181; n f; [BDB-276a] [{See TWOT on 563 @@ "563c" }] AV-whoredom 18, fornication 2; 20
- 1) fornication, harlotry
- ↑ Not exercise authority
- Matthew 20:25 "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you:..."
- Mark 10:42 "But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you:..."
- Luke 22:25 "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye [shall] not [be] so:..."
- ↑
Bite not
- Exodus 16:3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.
- Ecclesiastes 4:5 "The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh."
- Proverbs 1:10 "My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. 19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof."
- Proverbs 6:10 "[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man."
- Proverbs 20:4 "The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; [therefore] shall he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing."
- Proverbs 24:33 "[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 34 So shall thy poverty come [as] one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man."
- Proverbs 11:17 "The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but [he that is] cruel troubleth his own flesh."
- Isaiah 9:20 "And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:"
- Ezekiel 11:3 "Which say, [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city is] the caldron, and we [be] the flesh... 11 This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; [but] I will judge you in the border of Israel:"
- Micah 3:3 "Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron."
- Galatians 5:14 "For all the law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another."
- 2 Corinthians 11:20 "For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour [you], if a man take [of you], if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face."
- The ultimate bondage is to hate your neighbor through the error of Balaam because we fail to forgive which is the consuming fire of Exodus 33 and the Raca of Matthew 5 that brings the judgement and wrath of God.