Jeremiah 3:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

Lightness

Ezekiel 23:10

She defiled

Jeremiah 3:2

Jeremiah 2:7

Committed

General references

Ezekiel 16:32

Bible References

Lightness

These uncovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they had executed judgment upon her.

She defiled

Lift up your eyes unto the high places, and see where you have not been lain with. In the ways have you sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your harlotries and with your wickedness.

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.

Committed

Saying to a tree, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

But they are altogether senseless and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.

Among the smooth stones of the stream is your portion; they, they are your lot: even to them have you poured a drink offering, you have offered a grain offering. Should I receive comfort in these?

You have also taken your fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given you, and made to yourself images of men, and did commit harlotry with them,

My people ask counsel of their idols of wood, and their staff advises unto them: for the spirit of harlotry has caused them to err, and they have played the harlot against their God.

Woe unto him that says to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in it.

General references

But as a wife that commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!