Jeremiah 2:23

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

How canst

See

Jeremiah 3:2

Valley

Jeremiah 7:31

Isaiah 57:5

Thou art a swift

Esther 8:16

General references

2 Samuel 11:12

Bible References

How canst

And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ...

And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.

And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, May the blessing of the Lord be with you: I have done what was ordered by the Lord.

For he takes comfort in the thought that his sin will not be uncovered and hated.

He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.

There is a generation who seem to themselves to be free from sin, but are not washed from their unclean ways.

But he, desiring to put himself in the right, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:

If we say that we have no sin, we are false to ourselves and there is nothing true in us.

For you say, I have wealth, and have got together goods and land, and have need of nothing; and you are not conscious of your sad and unhappy condition, that you are poor and blind and without clothing.

See

Let your eyes be lifted up to the open hilltops, and see; where have you not been taken by your lovers? You have been seated waiting for them by the wayside like an Arabian in the waste land; you have made the land unclean with your loose ways and your evil-doing.

Valley

And they have put up the high place of Topheth in the valley of the son of Hinnom, burning their sons and their daughters there in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me and never came into my mind.

You who are burning with evil desire among the oaks, under every green tree; putting children to death in the valleys, under the cracks of the rocks?

Thou art a swift

And the Jews had light and joy and honour.

General references

And David said to Uriah, Be here today, and after that I will let you go. So Uriah was in Jerusalem that day and the day after.