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    "alternate_names": "Spiritual adultery imagery; whoredom imagery; covenant infidelity imagery",
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    "simple_definition": "Harlotry and spiritual adultery imagery uses marital betrayal and prostitution language to describe idolatry, covenant unfaithfulness, worldly compromise, and the seduction of false worship.",
    "technical_definition": "A covenant-betrayal motif in which sexual unfaithfulness language is applied figuratively to Israel, Jerusalem, religious systems, or professing people who forsake the LORD for idols, alliances, or corrupt desires.",
    "source_hint": "Draft-normalized harlotry/spiritual-adultery imagery review; handle prophetic sexual imagery soberly and contextually.",
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      "reference": "Exod. 34:15-16",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "they go a whoring after their gods",
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      "reference": "Lev. 17:7",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring",
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      "reference": "Deut. 31:16",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers",
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      "reference": "Judg. 2:17",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "they went a whoring after other gods",
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      "reference": "Isa. 1:21",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "How is the faithful city become an harlot!",
      "explanation": "Jerusalem is pictured as an unfaithful city whose justice and righteousness have been corrupted.",
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      "reference": "Jer. 3:1",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "thou hast played the harlot with many lovers",
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      "reference": "Ezek. 16:15",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "thou... playedst the harlot because of thy renown",
      "explanation": "Jerusalem’s gifts and beauty become instruments of unfaithfulness in the prophetic allegory.",
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      "reference": "Hos. 1:2",
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      "reference": "Matt. 12:39",
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      "explanation": "Jesus uses adulterous-generation language for covenant unbelief and demand for signs apart from repentance.",
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      "reference": "Rev. 17:1-5",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "the great whore... Mystery, Babylon the Great",
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