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 am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see your way in the valley, know what you have done: you are a swift dromedary traversing her ways;

And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel was there, like the vision that I saw in the plain.

And in hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and seeing Abraham far off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

Unto

For from of old I have broken your yoke, and burst your bands; and you said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree you wander, playing the harlot.

You shall utterly destroy all the places, in which the nations which you shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree:

And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

And the high places that were east of Jerusalem, which were on the south of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.

And of your garments you did take, and adorned your high places with various colors, and played the harlot on them: the like things have never been, neither shall be.

For when I had brought them into the land, for I lifted up my hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet aroma, and poured out there their drink offerings.

In the

And she put her widow's garments off from her, and covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him as wife.

(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the unfaithful among men.

That you have also built unto you an eminent place, and have made yourself a high place in every street.

Thou hast

They say, If a man puts away his wife, and she goes from him, and becomes another man's, may he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but you have played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, says the LORD.

And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.

General references

Now is she outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.)

Upon a lofty and high mountain have you set your bed: even there you went up to offer sacrifice.