What the Bible says about Israel as Prostitute From Forerunner Commentary 2 Kings This was Israel's great sin , typified as prostitution: debasing themselves and God through the adoption and practice of the way of the heathen, and rejecting the way, providence, and sovereignty of God for something far inferior, corrupting, and shameful.
In the midst of His law, God warns Israelβand thus us as the Israel of God Galatians βthat to do things as the heathens do them constitutes harlotry. His terminology is in His instructions to Israel in Leviticus is extremely clear. John W. Proverbs Proverbs details some of a harlot's characteristics. A careful study would find that she is described as deviously sly and cunning in that she feigns love , knowing how to pull a man's strings.
Her "love" is strictly businessβit is nothing but window dressing. Part of her eye-appealing attraction is her purposeful seduction and immodest dress, arousing lust. She is described as "loud," which might be better rendered as turbulent, flighty, confused, inconstant, and unstable.
She lacks dignity and gravity, and she is stubborn, defiant, brazen, deliberately obstinate, and headstrong. Further, she is aggressive, impudent, contemptuous, presumptuous, and disrespectful. Apart from Israel, the biblical record relates the story of one woman, Delilah, who exemplifies the harlot, helping us to zero in on what drives most prostitutes. Only two verses, Judges , are needed to isolate her reason for living as she did:.
Now afterward it happened that [Samson] loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah. And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, "Entice him, and find out where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to afflict him; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred pieces of silver.
