Jeremiah 3:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. 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.

Lift

Jeremiah 2:23

Ezekiel 8:4

Luke 16:23

Unto

In the

Thou hast

Jeremiah 3:1

Jeremiah 2:7

General references

Proverbs 7:12

Isaiah 57:7

Bible References

Lift

How can you protest, “I am not defiled;
I have not followed the Baals”?
Look at your behavior in the valley;
acknowledge what you have done.
You are a swift young camel
twisting and turning on her way,

I saw the glory of the God of Israel there, like the vision I had seen in the plain.

And being in torment in Hades, he looked up and saw Abraham a long way off, with Lazarus at his side.

Unto

For long ago I broke your yoke;
I tore off your chains.
You insisted, “I will not serve!”
On every high hill
and under every green tree
you lie down like a prostitute.

Destroy completely all the places where the nations that you are driving out worship their gods—on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

He had 700 wives who were princesses and 300 concubines, and they turned his heart away from the Lord.

The king also defiled the high places that were across from Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Destruction, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth, the detestable idol of the Sidonians; for Chemosh, the detestable idol of Moab; and for Milcom, the abomination of the Ammonites.

You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and you engaged in prostitution on them. These places should not have been built, and this should never have happened!

When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices and presented their offensive offerings there. They also sent up their pleasing aromas and poured out their drink offerings there.

In the

So she took off her widow’s clothes, veiled her face, covered herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.

She is loud and defiant;
her feet do not stay at home.

indeed, she sets an ambush like a robber
and increases those among men who are unfaithful.

“you built yourself a mound and made yourself an elevated place in every square.

Thou hast

If a man divorces his wife
and she leaves him to marry another,
can he ever return to her?
Wouldn’t such a land become totally defiled?
But you!
You have played the prostitute with many partners—
can you return to Me?
This is the Lord’s declaration.

I brought you to a fertile land
to eat its fruit and bounty,
but after you entered, you defiled My land;
you made My inheritance detestable.

General references

Now in the street, now in the squares,
she lurks at every corner.

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