Jeremiah 17:2
Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
In Context
Cross References
Judges 3:7And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and put out of their minds the Lord their God, and became servants to the Baals and the Astartes.
2 Chronicles 33:3For he put up again the high places which had been pulled down by his father Hezekiah; and he made altars for the Baals, and pillars of wood, and was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven;
Psalms 78:58They made him angry with their high places; moving him to wrath with their images.
Isaiah 17:8He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.
Jeremiah 7:18The children go for wood, the fathers get the fire burning, the women are working the paste to make cakes for the queen of heaven, and drink offerings are drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.
Hosea 4:13They make offerings on the tops of mountains, burning perfumes in high places, under trees of every sort, because their shade is good: and so your daughters are given up to loose ways and your brides are false to their husbands.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 17:2-5
The Guilt of Judah. ( b. c. 605.) 1 The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars; 2 Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills. 3 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders. 4 And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I… Read the whole commentary →