Jeremiah 2:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

For of

And thou saidst

1 Samuel 12:10

When upon

Ezekiel 20:28

Playing

General references

2 Kings 12:3

Proverbs 7:12

Isaiah 57:7

Bible References

For of

On that day, declares Jehovah of Hosts, I will break the yokes off your necks and tear off your ropes. Foreigners will no longer make you serve them.

I have come down to rescue them from the Egyptians. I will bring my people out of Egypt into a country where there is good land, rich with milk and honey. I will give them the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites now live.

I am Jehovah your God. I brought you out of Egypt so that you are no longer slaves of the Egyptians. I have broken their power over you and made you live as a free people.

But you are Jehovah's people! He led you through fiery trials and rescued you from Egypt.

Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this today!

As in the day of Midian's defeat, you have shattered the yoke of his burdens: the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor.

In that day your burden will be lifted from your shoulders, their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be broken because you have grown so fat.

In my land of Israel I will trample them on my mountains. I will free my people from the Assyrian yoke and from the burdens they have had to bear.

I will break their yoke off of you. I will remove your restraint.

And thou saidst

All the people answered together: We will do everything Jehovah has said. So Moses brought their answer back to Jehovah.

Moses told the people all Jehovah's words and legal decisions. Then all the people answered with one voice: We will do everything Jehovah told us to do.

They spoke to Moses: 'Moses, go and listen to everything that Jehovah our God says. Then tell us whatever Jehovah our God tells you. We will listen and obey.'

You declared Jehovah to be your God today. You said you would walk in his ways and keep his statutes, his commandments and his ordinances, and listen to his voice.

They answered Joshua: All that you command us we will do. Wherever you send us we will go.

The people said to Joshua: We will serve Jehovah our God. We will obey his commands.

Again they cried to Jehovah for help! They said: 'We have sinned, because we turned away from you, Jehovah. We worshiped the idols of the Baals and the Ashtoreth (Greek: Astarte). Rescue us from our enemies. We will worship you!'

When upon

During the reign of King Josiah, Jehovah asked me: Did you see what unfaithful Israel did? She went up every high mountain and under every large tree, and she acted like a prostitute there.

Destroy all the places where the nations you dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

Jeroboam appointed a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, just like the festival in Judah. He went to the altar in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had made. He appointed priests from the illegal worship sites to serve in Bethel.

They provoked him to anger (indignation) because of their illegal worship sites. They made him furious because they worshiped idols.

Are you inflaming yourselves with gods under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

by the side of every road you built places to worship idols and practice prostitution.

I brought them to the land I had promised to give them. When they saw the high hills and green trees, they offered sacrifices at all of them. They made me angry by the sacrifices they burned and by the wine they brought as offerings.

Playing

It is said: If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, her first husband should not go back to her again. The land would become completely polluted. You have behaved like a prostitute who has many lovers. Now you want to come back to me! Says Jehovah.

Do not worship any other god but Jehovah for his reputation is filled with zeal, and he is a God who demands exclusive devotion.

Destroy all the places where the nations you dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree.

How the faithful town has become a prostitute! She was full of justice, and righteousness lived in her. But now murderers live there!

But you trusted your beauty. You used your fame to become a prostitute. You had sex with everyone who walked by.

Oholah played the prostitute while she was mine; and she lusted after her lovers, after the Assyrians, her neighbors.

Their mother played the harlot. She that conceived them acted shamefully! For she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.

I said to her: You will live with me many days. You must not play the harlot (commit fornication) and you must not be any man's wife. I will also be with you.

General references

The high places were not taken away. The people continued making offerings and burning them in the high places.

Now in the streets and squares, she waits at every corner.

You placed your bed on a lofty and high mountain. Even there you went up to offer sacrifice.