Jeremiah 7:9
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that ye have not known,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
Cross References
Exodus 20:3Thou shall have no other gods before me.
Judges 5:8They chose new gods, then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Psalms 50:16But to the wicked man God says, What have thou to do to declare my statutes, and that thou have taken my covenant in thy mouth,
Jeremiah 5:2And though they say, As LORD lives, surely they swear falsely.
Jeremiah 9:2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Jeremiah 11:17For LORD of hosts, who planted thee, has pronounced evil against thee because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have wrought for themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 7:2-16
A Call of Repentance. ( b. c. 606.) 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord , saying, 2 Stand in the gate of the Lord 's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord , all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the Lord . 3 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. 4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord , The temple of the Lord , The temple of the Lord , are… Read the whole commentary →