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: Proverbs 30:20 Such is the way of an adulterous <05003> woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness. | : Proverbs 30:20 Such is the way of an adulterous <05003> woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness. | ||
: Isaiah 57:3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer <05003> and the whore. | : Isaiah 57:3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer <05003> and the [[whore]]. | ||
: ¶Jeremiah 3:6-10: The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. And it came to pass through the lightness of her | : ¶Jeremiah 3:6-10: The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. And it came to pass through the lightness of her [[whore]]dom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD. | ||
: Jeremiah 5:7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery <05003>, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses. | : Jeremiah 5:7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery <05003>, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses. | ||
: Jeremiah 7:9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery <05003>, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; | : Jeremiah 7:9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery <05003>, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not; | ||
: Jeremiah 9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers <05003>, an assembly of treacherous men. | : Jeremiah 9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers <05003>, an assembly of treacherous men. | ||
: Jeremiah 23:10 For the land is full of adulterers <05003>; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right. {swearing: or, | : Jeremiah 23:10 For the land is full of adulterers <05003>; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right. {swearing: or, cursing} {course: or, violence} | ||
: Jeremiah 23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery <05003>, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. {an … : or, filthiness } | : Jeremiah 23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery <05003>, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. {an … : or, filthiness } | ||
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: Ezekiel 23:45 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses <05003>, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses <05003>, and blood is in their hands. | : Ezekiel 23:45 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses <05003>, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses <05003>, and blood is in their hands. | ||
: Hosea 3:1 Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress <05003>, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine. {of wine: Heb. of grapes } | : [[Hosea 3]]:1 Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress <05003>, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine. {of wine: Heb. of grapes } | ||
: Hosea 4:2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery <05003>, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. {blood: Heb. | : [[Hosea 4]]:2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery <05003>, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. {blood: Heb. bloods} | ||
: Hosea 4:13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit | : [[Hosea 4]]:13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit [[whore]]dom, and your spouses shall commit [[adultery]] <05003>. | ||
: Hosea 4:14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery <05003>: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall. {I will not: or, Shall I not } {fall: or, be punished } | : [[Hosea 4]]:14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery <05003>: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall. {I will not: or, Shall I not } {fall: or, be punished } | ||
: Hosea 7:4 They are all adulterers <05003>, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. {who … : or, the raiser will cease } {raising: or, waking } | : [[Hosea 7]]:4 They are all adulterers <05003>, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. {who … : or, the raiser will cease } {raising: or, waking } | ||
: Malachi 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers <05003>, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. {oppress: or, defraud } | : [[Malachi 3]]:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers <05003>, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. {oppress: or, defraud } | ||
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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?
Adultery (National)
- James 4:4 "Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God."
Most of the adultery in the Bible is national adultery. This is about asking amiss for what we want. Like the Corban that made the word of God to none effect and the Covetous Practices that made us merchandise and cursed our children. It is about our Wantonness and what "should have been for our Welfare but was a snare". James understood what Pure Religion was and certainly understood the Christian conflict with Rome and its Imperial cult.
- Exodus 20:14 "Thou shalt not commit adultery."
05003 נָאַף na’aph [naw-af’] a primitive root; v; [BDB-610b] [{See TWOT on 1273 }] AV-adultery 17, adulterer 8, adulteress 4, adulterous 1, women that break wedlock 1; 31
- 1) to commit adultery
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to commit adultery
- 1a1a) usually of man
- 1a1a1) always with wife of another
- 1a1b) adultery (of women) (participle)
- 1a1a) usually of man
- 1a2) idolatrous worship (fig.)
- 1a1) to commit adultery
- 1b) (Piel)
- 1b1) to commit adultery
- 1b1a) of man
- 1b1b) adultery (of women) (participle)
- 1b2) idolatrous worship (fig.)
- 1b1) to commit adultery
- 1a) (Qal)
- ץאנ na’ats 05006 means "to spurn, contemn, despise, abhor"
- הצאנ nᵉ’atsah 05007 or הצאנ ne’atsah means contempt, translated blasphemy, provocation
- קאנ na’aq 05008 means groan
- ראנ na’ar 05010 means to abhor, spurn, translated made void, abhorred
- םאנ nᵉ’um 05002 from verb say; meaning utterance, declaration, translated saith 366
- The common word for say is רמא ‘amar 0559, said 4874 times
- אנ No’ 04996 of Egyptian origin; the ancient capital of Egypt No = "disrupting"
- אנ na’ 04995 means raw in the sense of harshness from refusal, apparently from אונ nuw’, meaning to hinder and translated to disallow, discourage, make to non effect, break
Adultery and Fornication
We know that both the words translated into adultery and fornication are commonly used in the Bible to denote the acts of a whole nation. What is the adultery spoken of in the ten commandments? Is it just about sex?
In the matter of fornication we see a number of quotes to do with the Nation and Kingdom.
- Isaiah 23:17 And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.
- Ezekiel 16:26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.
- Acts 15:20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and [from] fornication, and [from] things strangled, and [from] blood.
- Acts 15:29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
- 1 Corinthians 4:20 For the kingdom of God [is] not in word, but in power. 1
- Corinthians 5:1 It is reported commonly [that there is] fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife.
- Exodus 23:32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
And in the matter of adultery we see that whole nations and the Church can commit adultery which is idolatry.
- Jeremiah 3:8, 10 And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
- Jeremiah 5:7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by [them that are] no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.... Jeremiah 7:9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
- Jeremiah 23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.
- Romans 2:22 Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
- 2 Peter 2:14,19 "Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet. These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage."
The way nations do this is by covenanting with other peoples who do not love God and by becoming unequally yoked with those people and their gods by those covenants that are contrary in nature to the ways of the God of heaven:
It may become painfully obvious that these gods of those other people and nations are nothing more than the judges within their judicial system of judges who exercise authority one over the other in deciding what is good and evil.
If we know that a marriage license is a contract with the state and is not merely a personal ecclesiastical vow before God but an agreement that brings you under the authority of the State law makers and judges rather than the God in Heaven then that contract binds as one flesh not merely with our spouse but with the men of state who may now rule over that relationship with their own morality.
Holy Matrimony vs. Marriage
Chapter 1. of the book The Covenants of the gods
Audio [2 hours] http://keysofthekingdom.info/COG-01.mp3
Text http://www.hisholychurch.org/study/gods/cog1mvm.php
And if our vows of Matrimony are to be before God and between us and our spouse:
- Matthew 19:6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Then any other contract, covenant or conditions that binds us under another authority other than God would be a betrayal of our faith in God. Since adultery is really a matter of betrayal of faith then by the voluntary act of obtaining a marriage license and going under the authority of the judges of a civil court, who are called gods both in Israel and Rome at the time of the writing of the bible, as opposed to matrimony before God is in fact an act of adultery.
Ohio’s Marriage Laws Document.
- “Marriage is a legal as well as spiritual and personal relationship. When you repeat your marriage vows, you enter into a legal contract. There are three parties to that legal contract: 1) you; 2) your spouse; and 3) the state of Ohio. The state is a party to the contract because under its laws, you have certain obligations and responsibilities to each other, to any children you may have, and to Ohio.[2]
- “Marriage is often referred to as a civil contract, but the emphasis in such a reference is not on the word ‘contract’ but upon the word ‘civil’ as distinguished from ecclesiastical; since there is religious freedom in this country a religious ceremony, and rules of ecclesiastical organizations with regard to marriage have no legal significance.”
- “Though mutual assent is necessary to enter into a marriage the marriage itself is a status or relationship rather than a contract, the rights and obligations of the parties thereto being fixed by the law instead of by the parties themselves. Hence marriages are not within the provision of the United States Constitution forbidding a state to impair the obligation of contracts.” [3]
Supreme Court of Nebraska stated that:
- “It (marriage) differs from all other contracts in its far-reaching consequences to the body politic itself, and for that reason, in dealing with it or the status resulting therefrom, the state never stands indifferent, but is always a party whose interest must be taken into account.” [4]
By this information it may seem reasonable to conclude that anyone who gets a marriage license is living in an adulterous state.
But is the marriage contract the only binding covenant with the gods of the people of the world?
Or are there many others?
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- Leviticus 20:10 And the man that committeth adultery <05003> with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery <05003> with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer <05003> and the adulteress <05003> shall surely be put to death.
- Deuteronomy 5:18 Neither shalt thou commit adultery <05003>.
- Job 24:15 The eye also of the adulterer <05003> waiteth for the twilight, saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face. {disguiseth … : Heb. setteth his face in secret }
- Psalms 50:18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers <05003>. {hast … : Heb. thy portion was with }
- Proverbs 6:32 But whoso committeth adultery <05003> with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. {understanding: Heb. heart }
- Proverbs 30:20 Such is the way of an adulterous <05003> woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
- Isaiah 57:3 But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer <05003> and the whore.
- ¶Jeremiah 3:6-10: The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot. And I said after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me. But she returned not. And her treacherous sister Judah saw it. And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks. And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the LORD.
- Jeremiah 5:7 How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery <05003>, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.
- Jeremiah 7:9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery <05003>, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
- Jeremiah 9:2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers <05003>, an assembly of treacherous men.
- Jeremiah 23:10 For the land is full of adulterers <05003>; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right. {swearing: or, cursing} {course: or, violence}
- Jeremiah 23:14 I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery <05003>, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah. {an … : or, filthiness }
- Jeremiah 29:23 Because they have committed villany in Israel, and have committed adultery <05003> with their neighbours’ wives, and have spoken lying words in my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the LORD.
- Ezekiel 16:32 But as a wife that committeth adultery <05003>, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!
- Ezekiel 16:38 And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock <05003> and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy. {as: Heb. with judgments of }
- Ezekiel 23:37 That they have committed adultery <05003>, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery <05003>, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them.
- Ezekiel 23:45 And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses <05003>, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses <05003>, and blood is in their hands.
- Hosea 3:1 Then said the LORD unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress <05003>, according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine. {of wine: Heb. of grapes }
- Hosea 4:2 By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery <05003>, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. {blood: Heb. bloods}
- Hosea 4:13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom, and your spouses shall commit adultery <05003>.
- Hosea 4:14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom, nor your spouses when they commit adultery <05003>: for themselves are separated with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that doth not understand shall fall. {I will not: or, Shall I not } {fall: or, be punished }
- Hosea 7:4 They are all adulterers <05003>, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened. {who … : or, the raiser will cease } {raising: or, waking }
- Malachi 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers <05003>, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts. {oppress: or, defraud }
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- ↑ 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 woman, 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 woman.
- Proverbs 22:14 The mouth of strange women [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 [is] a narrow pit.
- Proverbs 23:33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, 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.
- ↑ Copyright 1997-2002 Ohio State Bar Association.” All rights reserved. 5/3/2002
- ↑ Clark's Summary of American Law. Chapt I S2. The marriage status or relationship. pp. 140.
- ↑ Willits v. Willits, 107 N.W.379,380
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