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

Psalm 50:21

Valley

Jeremiah 7:31

Isaiah 57:5

Thou art a swift

Esther 8:16

General references

2 Samuel 11:12

Bible References

How canst

Even in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents; thou didst not find them in any trespass, but by all these things.

And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.

And Samuel came to Saul, and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou of the LORD; I have performed the commandment of the LORD.

For he flatters himself in his own eyes until his iniquity is found to be hateful.

He that covers his sins shall not prosper, but whosoever confesses and forsakes them shall attain mercy.

There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

But he, desiring to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

Now we know that all that the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may submit themselves unto God.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and there is no truth in us.

Because thou sayest, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked,

See

Lift up thine eyes unto the high places and see if there is anywhere thou hast not been ravished. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou didst think that I was altogether such a one as thyself, but I will reprove thee and set them in order before thine eyes.

Valley

And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, which I did not command them, neither did it come into my heart.

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

Thou art a swift

The Jews had light and gladness and joy and honour.

General references

And David said to Uriah, Tarry here today also, and tomorrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day and the next day.