Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Because my people hath forgotten me, they have burned incense to vanity, and they have caused them to stumble in their ways from the ancient paths, to walk in paths, in a way not cast up;

The ancient

Bible References

My people

Jeremiah 2:13
"Indeed, my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that cannot hold water."
Jeremiah 3:21
"A voice is heard on the barren heights, the weeping and pleading of the children of Israel because they have perverted their way. They have forgotten the LORD their God."
Jeremiah 13:25
"This is your fate, the portion I've measured out for you," declares the LORD, "because you have forgotten me and have trusted in false gods.
Jeremiah 17:13
LORD, you are the hope of Israel; all who forsake you will be put to shame. Those who turn aside from you will be written in the dust, because they have forsaken the LORD, the spring of living water.

Caused

Isaiah 3:12
"As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. My people, your leaders are misleading you they're giving you confusing directions."
Isaiah 9:16
For those who guide this people have been leading them astray, and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.
Malachi 2:8
"But you priests turned aside from the way, and by your teaching you caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant of Levi," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.
Matthew 15:6
does not have to honor his father.' Because of your tradition, then, you have disregarded the authority of God's word.
Romans 14:21
The right thing to do is to avoid eating meat, drinking wine, or doing anything else that makes your brother stumble, upset, or weak.

The ancient

Jeremiah 6:16
This is what the LORD says: "Stand beside the roads and watch. Ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is. Walk in it and find rest for yourselves. But they said, "We won't walk in it!'

To walk

Jeremiah 19:5
They built the high places for Baal to burn their children in the fire as a burnt offering to Baal something I didn't command, didn't say, nor did it ever enter my mind!
Isaiah 57:14
And one has said: "Build up! Build up the road! Prepare the highway! Remove every obstacle from my people's way.'

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