Jeremiah 23:24
In what secret place may a man take cover without my seeing him? says the Lord. Is there any place in heaven or earth where I am not? says the Lord.
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23Am I only a God who is near, says the Lord, and not a God at a distance?
Cross References
1 Kings 8:27But is it truly possible that God may be housed on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place; how much less this house which I have made!
2 Chronicles 6:18But is it truly possible that God may be housed with men on earth? see, heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be your resting-place: how much less this house which I have made:
Job 24:13Then there are those who are haters of the light, who have no knowledge of its ways, and do not go in them.
Psalms 90:8You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face.
Psalms 139:8If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.
Psalms 148:13Let them give glory to the name of the Lord: for his name only is to be praised: his kingdom is over the earth and the heaven.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 23:10-33
Guilt of False Prophets. ( b. c. 600.) 9 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the Lord , and because of the words of his holiness. 10 For the land is full of adulterers; for because of swearing the land mourneth; the pleasant places of the wilderness are dried up, and their course is evil, and their force is not right. 11 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their… Read the whole commentary →