The people began to commit whoredomwith the daughters of Moab" (Num 25:1,2).
I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.
As adultery is distinguished in Scripture from whoredom and fornication, it is proper to ascertain the exact meaning of the words as used by the sacred writers.
They shall eat and not have enough, they shall commit whoredom and shall not increase, because they have ceased to take heed to the Lord" (Hosea iv.
They of Judah also set up high places and pillars on every high hill, and under every green tree, and whoredom at sacred places was practiced in the land.
Scobble for whoredom whips his wife and cries, 377.
This was the legal punishment, for these sinners had not only committed whoredomwith the women of Moab, but had worshipped the Moabit idol Peor; and idolatry is punishable with death by stoning.
Now this man, who was sovereign over the angels and over the forces of nature, could only weep when Israel committed whoredom with the daughters of Moab and Midian.
At first the men were ashamed and committed this whoredom with the Moabite women in secret, but they soon lost this feeling of shame and betook themselves two by two to their lewd actions.
It was at the same time a warning to the tribe of Simeon, that committed whoredom at Shittim with the daughters of Moab, to be mindful of chastity, and like its stone, to suffer no prostitution.
Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her.
Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of My gold and of My silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them.
Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredombrought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commitwhoredom with the daughters of Moab.
Pride is the pander of whoredom and uncleanness: it is an incentive to lust in themselves, and draws the proud to adorn and set forth themselves in the most enticing manner, as tends to provoke the lust of others.
Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them.
And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredom more than her sister in her whoredom.
And thus he merrily taunted the trysts of whoredom and adultery used at such devotion.
I have done them," he says, "all the good which was possible, and they have thought that this was the wages of whoredom with their idols.
To understand the true nature of spiritual whoredom will assist us in ascertaining the bounds of mystical Babylon.
Under the Mosaic dispensation the penalty for whoredom was stoning to death.
Leaving out of [Pg 233] view the more aggravating circumstance, the prophet first speaks of whoredom in the case of the children of Israel also.
For whoredom is here only the general designation of adultery, as, by way of applying it to the case in question, it is immediately subjoined, "away from Jehovah.
A significant proper name can, in any case, convey only an allusion; but such an allusion was here quite sufficient, inasmuch as the mention of the wife's whoredom had preceded.
Hence, the wife can be called a whoring wife, only on account of the whoredom which she practised after her marriage.
There will have arisen in his heart very sad recollections of his sins, of his whoredom with Thamar, and of the advice which he had given to sell Joseph.
Like a reward of whoredom, it will melt away; "of wages of whoredom she has collected, and to wages of whoredom it shall return.
The reason why the whoredom is here attributed to the face, and the adultery to the breasts, is well given by Manger: "We need not have any difficulty about seeing adultery attributed to the very face and breasts.
And thou didst take thy ornament of My gold and of My silver which I gave thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them.
On the other hand certain things are said to be ill-gotten, because they are gotten of a shameful cause, for instance of whoredom or stage-playing, and the like.
This is filthy lucre properly so called, because the practice of whoredom is filthy and against the Law of God, yet the woman does not act unjustly or unlawfully in taking the money.
But the profits from whoredom are filthy lucre; wherefore it was forbidden (Deut.
He doth not speak only to persons guilty of that crime, but to all natural men, who are guilty of adultery or whoredom of a more spiritual nature, but as abominable and more dangerous.
Every man turns aside to vanity and lies, and is guilty of heartwhoredom from God, and spiritual idolatry, because the affection that should be preserved chaste for him is prostitute to every base object.
Esdr 15:55 The reward of thy whoredom shall be in thy bosom, therefore shalt thou receive recompence.
Sir 26:9 The whoredom of a woman may be known in her haughty looks and eyelids.
But now they must remove their whoredom and the corpses of their kings from Me, and I will dwell amongst them for ever" (ch.
IT is generally reported that there is whoredom among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father's wife.
Every other sin which a man may commit is without the body; but he who committeth whoredom sinneth against his own body.
Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the rage of her whoredom, and the kings of the earth have committed whoredom with her, and the merchants of the earth have been enriched by the excess of her profligate luxury.
And her gain and hire of whoredom shall be holy unto the Lord; not is it treasured and laid up, but to those who sit before the Lord its gain shall be, that they may eat and be satisfied, and for durable clothing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whoredom" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
