whoredoms

They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the Lord.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

The violation of the first two commandments of the first table by idolatry, which is here called her whoredoms with her lovers (so she called them, Hos.ii. 12, because she loved them as if they had been indeed her benefactors), that is, with all the idols of her abominations, the abominable idols which she served and worshipped.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

Because of the multitude of the whoredoms -- This assigns the reason for Nineveh's destruction. of the well-favoured harlot -- As Assyria was not a worshipper of the true God, "whoredoms" cannot mean, as in the case of Israel, apostasy to the worship of false gods; but, her harlot-like artifices whereby she allured neighboring states so as to subject them to herself.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

While, again, when we keep in mind the essentially impure character of the Phoenician idolatries which she introduced, -- Ashtaroth or Astarte was the Phoe nician Aphrodite, -- we have an explanation of the "whoredoms" which Jehu further lays to her charge, and which may thus have set an hideous contradiction between her and her name, if indeed that derivation which would make it etymologically to signify

Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia. 1807-1886 1863

Let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts.

Chris Kelly: Mel Gibson Is Biblically Correct 2010

And God said, “Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD” Hosea 1:2.

FROM THE CROSS TO PENTECOST T. D. JAKES 2010

And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

Chris Kelly: Mel Gibson Is Biblically Correct 2010

Let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts.

Chris Kelly: Mel Gibson Is Biblically Correct 2010

And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity.

Chris Kelly: Mel Gibson Is Biblically Correct 2010

Apparently, Mrs Haddington was content to lose the glory of being esteemed an honest woman and to be accounted a wife of whoredoms that she might on occasion, as she did conceive, the fulfilling of the prophecy.

Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008