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

Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.

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 to him, Blessed be thou of the LORD: I have performed the commandment of the LORD.

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

He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but he who confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

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

But he, willing to justify himself, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbor?

Now we know that whatever things the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not 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 thy eyes to the high places, and see where thou hast not been lain with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy acts of lewdness, and with thy wickedness.

These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an 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 commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.

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

Thou art a swift

The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honor.

General references

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