Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. (A)They became mine, and they (B)bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is (C)Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.

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“When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and (A)I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you (B)and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord God, (C)and you became mine.

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Likewise, my brothers, (A)you also have died (B)to the law (C)through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, (D)in order that we may bear fruit for God.

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40 (A)They shall bring up a crowd against you, (B)and they shall stone you and cut you to pieces with their swords.

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20 (A)And you took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and (B)these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. Were your whorings so small a matter

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“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the Lord,

“I remember the devotion of (A)your youth,
    your love (B)as a bride,
(C)how you followed me in the wilderness,
    (D)in a land not sown.
(E)Israel was holy to the Lord,
    (F)the firstfruits of his harvest.
(G)All who ate of it incurred guilt;
    disaster came upon them,
declares the Lord.”

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13 For the Lord has (A)chosen Zion;
    he has (B)desired it for his dwelling place:
14 “This is my (C)resting place forever;
    here I will (D)dwell, for I have desired it.

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His (A)abode has been established in (B)Salem,
    his (C)dwelling place in Zion.

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11     and the king will desire your beauty.
Since he is your (A)lord, (B)bow to him.
12     The people[a] of Tyre will (C)seek your favor with (D)gifts,
    (E)the richest of the people.[b]

13 All glorious is (F)the princess in her chamber, with robes interwoven with gold.
14     (G)In many-colored robes (H)she is led to the king,
    with her virgin companions following behind her.
15 With joy and gladness they are led along
    as they enter the palace of the king.

16 In place of your fathers shall be your sons;
    you will make them (I)princes in all the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 45:12 Hebrew daughter
  2. Psalm 45:12 Or The daughter of Tyre is here with gifts, the richest of people seek your favor

26 And Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will turn back to the house of David. 27 If this people (A)go up to offer sacrifices in the temple of the Lord at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.” 28 So the king took counsel and (B)made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. (C)Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.” 29 And he set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan. 30 Then (D)this thing became a sin, for the people went as far as Dan to be before one.[a] 31 He also made (E)temples on high places and (F)appointed priests from among all the people, who were not of the Levites. 32 And Jeroboam appointed a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month like (G)the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar. So he did in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he made. And he placed in Bethel (H)the priests of the high places that he had made. 33 He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had devised from his own heart. And he instituted a feast for the people of Israel and went up to the altar (I)to make offerings.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 12:30 Septuagint went to the one at Bethel and to the other as far as Dan

20 And when all Israel heard that Jeroboam had returned, they sent and called him to the assembly and made him king over all Israel. There was none that followed the house of David but (A)the tribe of Judah only.

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29 (A)that your eyes may be open night and day toward this house, the place of which you have said, (B)‘My name shall be there,’ that you may listen to the prayer that your servant offers toward this place.

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Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be (A)my treasured possession among all peoples, for (B)all the earth is mine; and you shall be to me a (C)kingdom of priests and (D)a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”

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