Jeremiah 11:7
For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, Obey my voice.
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Exodus 23:21Take ye heed before him, and hearken to his voice, provoke him not. For he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.
Deuteronomy 5:29Oh that there were such a heart in them that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their sons forever!
Deuteronomy 8:6And thou shall keep the commandments of LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
Deuteronomy 11:26Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse:
Deuteronomy 28:1And it shall come to pass, if thou shall hearken diligently to the voice of LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that LORD thy God will set thee on high above all the nations of the ear
1 Samuel 8:9Now therefore hearken to their voice. However thou shall protest solemnly to them, and shall show them the manner of the king who shall reign over them.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 11:2-11
Charges against Judah. ( b. c. 606.) 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord , saying, 2 Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem; 3 And say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant, 4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you:… Read the whole commentary →