Jeremiah 2:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

And they that

The pastors

Jeremiah 10:21

Jeremiah 12:10

Jeremiah 23:1

Do not

General references

Leviticus 10:11

Bible References

And they that

How can ye say, We are wise, and the law of LORD is with us? But, behold, the FALSE pen of the scribes has wrought falsely.

They shall teach Jacob thine ordinances, and Israel thy law. They shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt-offering upon thine altar.

The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.

Woe to you lawyers! Because ye took away the key of knowledge. Ye did not enter in yourselves, and ye hindered those who were entering in.

And ye do not know him, but I know him. And if I should say that I do not know him, I will be a liar like you, but I do know him and keep his word.

And they will do these things, because they have not known the Father nor me.

Behold, thou are called a Jew, and rely upon the law, and boast in God,

But we have renounced the covert things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor misrepresenting the word of God, but by the disclosure of the truth, commending ourselves to every conscience of men before God.

The pastors

For the shepherds have become brutish, and have not inquired of LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks are scattered.

Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard. They have trodden my portion under foot. They have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says LORD.

Do not

Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

And turn ye not aside after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

They shall all be ashamed because of a people who cannot profit them, who are not a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

What profits the graven image, that the maker of it has engraved it, the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make dumb idols?

For what does it profit a men, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

General references

and that ye may teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which LORD has spoken to them by Moses.