“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitution.’ ”
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“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Because you have forgotten me, and cast me behind your back, therefore you also bear your lewdness and your prostitution.’ ”
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thou hast forgotten Me, and cast Me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy harlotries.'
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 23:35 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 14:9 but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made for yourself other gods, molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back;
- Isaiah 17:10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and have not remembered the rock of your strength. Therefore you plant pleasant plants, and set out foreign seedlings.
- Jeremiah 3:21 A voice is heard on the bare heights, the weeping and the petitions of the children of Israel; because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Yahweh their God.
- Jeremiah 32:33 They have turned their backs to me, and not their faces. Although I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not listened to receive instruction.
- Ezekiel 22:12 In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
- Numbers 14:34 After the number of the days in which you spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, you will bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you will know my alienation.’
- Jeremiah 2:32 “Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me for days without number.
- Hosea 8:14 For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; but I will send a fire on his cities, and it will devour its fortresses.”
- Hosea 13:6 According to their pasture, so were they filled; they were filled, and their heart was exalted. Therefore they have forgotten me.
- Leviticus 24:15 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.
- Numbers 18:22 Henceforth the children of Israel shall not come near the Tent of Meeting, lest they bear sin, and die.
- Nehemiah 9:26 “Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
- Jeremiah 13:25 This is your lot, the portion measured to you from me,” says Yahweh, “because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.”
- Jeremiah 23:27 They intend to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they each tell his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name because of Baal.
- Ezekiel 7:4 My eye will not spare you, neither will I have pity; but I will bring your ways on you, and your abominations will be among you. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.’
- Ezekiel 23:45-49 Righteous men will judge them with the judgment of adulteresses and with the judgment of women who shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. “For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘I will bring up a mob against them, and will give them to be tossed back and forth and robbed. The company will stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords. They will kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. “ ‘Thus I will cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to be lewd like you. They will recompense your lewdness on you, and you will bear the sins of your idols. Then you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.’ ”
- Ezekiel 44:10 “ ‘ “But the Levites who went far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they will bear their iniquity.
- Romans 1:28 Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 23:35 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because…
Eze 23:35 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.
Ver. 35. Because thou hast forgotten me.] This was the source of all their sins, and cause of all their calamities.
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And cast me behind thy back.] As a harlot loatheth her husband. It is laid to David’s charge that in that foul fall of his he had "despised God’s commandment." {2Sa 12:9}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Thou hast forgotten me, Eze 22:12, which is here…
Thou hast forgotten me, Eze 22:12, which is here explained by what follows; it was a wilful forgetting of God, and voluntary despising his law, ordinances, worship, favour, and presence; so God is cast behind a sinner’s back.
Bear thou the guilt, I will impute it; the punishment, I will not pardon it; and the shame, for I will pour out contempt upon thee: bear both sorrow and reproach for thy sins.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Therefore thus saith the Lord God, because thou hast…
Therefore thus saith the Lord God, because thou hast forgotten me,.... His word, worship, and ordinances, and did not attend unto them, but worshipped strange gods: so the Targum,
"because thou hast left my worship:''
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and cast me behind thy back; or, as the same paraphrase,
"hast cast the fear of me from before thine eyes;''
or out of thy sight, his laws and statutes; see Neh 9:26, as men cast behind their backs that which they have no value for and loath, and which they do not care to see, and choose to forget:
therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms; that is, the guilt of their sins, the punishment of their idolatries, and shame and confusion for them.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Bear thou - The guilt, I will impute it,…
Bear thou - The guilt, I will impute it, the punishment, I will not pardon it.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain forgotten me-- (Jer 2:32; Jer 13:25).
forgotten me-- (Jer 2:32; Jer 13:25).
cast me behind thy back-- (Kg1 14:9; Neh 9:26).
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bear . . . thy lewdness--that is, its penal consequences (Pro 1:31).
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 35. bear thou … lewdness] Here “bear” means endure…
35. bear thou … lewdness] Here “bear” means endure the punishment of it, Eze_23:49.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 thrown me away behind your back
thrown me away behind your back
Yahweh speaks of Oholibah rejecting him as if he were an object that she had thrown behind her back and forgotten. AT: "rejected me" (See: Metaphor)
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