From Nave’s Topical Bible
Harlotry
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 3Passages listed
- 2Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- ForbiddenLeviticus 19:29Deuteronomy 23:17
- Punishment ofLeviticus 21:9
- See Adultery
- See Whoredom
The passages, in Bible order (3)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 3 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Leviticus 19:29
You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.
Commentary on Leviticus 19:292 voices
Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
Do not prostitute thy daughter - This was a very frequent custom, and with examples of it writers of antiquity abound. The Cyprian women, according to Justin, gained that portion which their husbands received with them at marriage by previous public prostitution. And the Phoenicians, according to Augustine, made a gift to Venus of the gain acquired by the public prostitution of their daughters, previously to their marriage. Veneri donum dabant, et prostitutiones filiarum, antequam jungerent eas viris. - De Civit. Del, lib. xviii., c. 5; and see Calmet.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832Evangelical
- Leviticus 21:9
If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by prostituting herself, she profanes her father; she must be burned in the fire.
Commentary on Leviticus 21:92 voices
They shall not take a wife that is a whore, or profane--Private individuals might form several connections, which were forbidden as inexpedient or improper in priests.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed
And the daughter - And by analogy his son also, and his wife, because the reason of the law here added, concerns all. And nothing is more common than to name one kind for the rest of the same nature, as also is done chap. xviii, 6.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
- Deuteronomy 23:17
No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 23:172 voices
There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel,.... The word for "whore" is "kedeshah", which properly signifies an "holy" one; and here, by an antiphrasis, an unholy, an impure person, one that is defiled by man; See Gill on Gen 38:
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
Compare the marginal reference. Prostitution was a common part of religious observances among idolatrous nations, especially in the worship of Ashtoreth or Astarte. Compare Mic 1:7; Baruch 6:43.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
