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 say, "I'm not defiled. I haven't gone after the Baals.'? Look at what you've done in the valley. Know what you have done. You are a swift young camel galloping aimlessly;

All of a sudden, the glory of the God of Israel was there! It looked like what I had seen back in the valley.

In the afterlife, where he was in constant torment, he looked up and saw Abraham far away and Lazarus by his side.

Unto

"For long ago I broke your yoke and tore off your bonds, But you said, "I won't serve you!' Instead, on every high hill and under every green tree, you bend down to commit fornication.

Be sure you destroy there all the places where the nations that you're going to dispossess serve their gods upon the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.

He had 700 princess wives and 300 mistresses who turned his heart away from the LORD,

The king defiled the high places which faced Jerusalem on the south side of Corruption Mountain, which King Solomon of Israel had constructed for Ashtoreth, the Sidonian abomination, for Chemosh, the Moabite abomination, and for Milcom, the Ammonite abomination.

You took some of your clothes and made gaily-colored high places and prostituted yourself all around them something which had never happened before nor will ever happen again.

I brought them to the land that I had promised to give them. But whenever they saw any high hill and or any leafy tree, they slaughtered their sacrifices there and presented their offerings that provoked my anger. There they presented their pleasing aromas and poured out their drink offering.

In the

So she took off her mourning apparel, covered herself with a shawl, and concealed her outward appearance. Then she went out and sat at the entrance of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah, because she knew that even though Shelah had grown up, she wasn't being given to him as his wife.

She is brazen and defiant her feet don't remain at home.

Surely she lies in wait like a bandit, increasing those who are faithless among mankind.

"You built raised mounds and high places for yourself on every plaza.

Thou hast

"When a man divorces his wife, she leaves him and becomes another man's wife, will the first husband return to her again? The land would be deeply polluted, would it not? Since you have committed fornication with many lovers, would you now return to me?" declares the LORD.

"I brought you into the fruitful land to eat its fruit and its good things. But you came in, defiled my land, and made my inheritance into an abomination.

General references

Now she is in the street, now in the plazas, she lurks near every corner.

"You have made your bed on a high and lofty mountain, and you went up to offer sacrifice there.