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
For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, to hew out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
Jeremiah 3:21
A voice was heard on the high places weeping, cryings of the sons of Israel; for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten Jehovah their God.
Jeremiah 13:25
This is your lot, the share I have measured to you, says Jehovah, because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.
Jeremiah 17:13
O Jehovah, the Hope of Israel, all who forsake You shall be ashamed. Those who depart from Me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the Fountain of living waters.

Caused

Isaiah 3:12
As for my people, children are their taskmasters, and women rule over them. Oh my people, your rulers cause you to go astray and destroy the way of your paths.
Isaiah 9:16
For the leaders of this people led them astray; and their guided ones are swallowed up.
Malachi 2:8
But you have turned out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says Jehovah of Hosts.
Matthew 15:6
and in no way he honors his father or his mother. And you voided the commandment of God by your tradition.
Romans 14:21
It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor anything by which your brother stumbles, or is offended, or is made weak.

The ancient

Jeremiah 6:16
So says Jehovah, Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths where the good way is, and walk in it, and you shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk in it.

To walk

Jeremiah 19:5
They have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I never commanded nor spoke, nor did it come into My mind.
Isaiah 57:14
And He shall say, Raise up! Raise up! Clear the way! Make the stumbling-block rise out of the way of My people.