Judg 2:17, 8:33, 2Ki 17:7-18, Hos 1:2, 9:1, Rev 17:5 | ESV | STEP | Yet they did not listen to their judges , for they whored after other gods and bowed down to them. They soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked , who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord , and they did not do so .

Judges 2:17

17 Yet they did not listen to their judges, for ^athey whored after other gods and bowed down to them. ^bThey soon turned aside from the way in which their fathers had walked, who had obeyed the commandments of the Lord, and they did not do so.

Judges 8:33

33 ^cAs soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and ^dwhored after the Baals and made ^eBaal-berith their god.

2 Kings 17:7-18

Exile Because of Idolatry

7 And this occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, ^fwho had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods 8 ^gand walked in the customs of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel, ^hand in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced. 9 And the people of Israel did secretly against the Lord their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, ⁱfrom watchtower to fortified city. 10 They set up for themselves ^jpillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, 11 and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the Lord carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the Lord to anger, 12 and they served idols, ^kof which the Lord had said to them, “You shall not do this.” 13 Yet the Lord ^lwarned Israel and Judah ^mby every prophet ⁿand every seer, saying, ^o“Turn from your evil ways and keep my commandments and my statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by my servants the prophets.”

14 But they would not listen, ^pbut were stubborn, as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the Lord their God. 15 They despised his statutes ^qand his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after ^rfalse idols ^sand became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the ^tLord had commanded them that they should not do like them. 16 And they abandoned all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made for themselves metal images of ^utwo calves; and they ^vmade an Asherah and ^wworshiped all the host of heaven and served ^xBaal. 17 ^yAnd they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings ^{▼▼Or made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire} and used ^aadivination and ^abomens and ^acsold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 18 Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. None was left but ^adthe tribe of Judah only.

Hosea 1:2

Hosea’s Wife and Children

2 When the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, ^ae“Go, take to yourself a wife of whoredom and have ^afchildren of whoredom, for ^agthe land commits great whoredom by forsaking the Lord.”

Hosea 9:1

The Lord Will Punish Israel

1 Rejoice not, O Israel!
Exult not like the peoples;
^ahfor you have played the whore, forsaking your God.
^aiYou have loved a prostitute’s wages
on all threshing floors.

Revelation of John 17:5

5 And on her forehead was written a name of ^ajmystery: ^ak“Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.”