Jeremiah 17:1
“The sin of Judah has been written with a pen of iron and a point of diamond. It has been engraved upon the breadth of their heart and upon the horns of their shrines.
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Leviticus 4:17and he shall dip his finger in it, sprinkling it seven times opposite the veil.
Job 19:23Who will grant to me that my words may be written down? Who will grant to me that they may be inscribed in a book,
Proverbs 3:3Let not mercy and truth abandon you: encircle them around your throat, and inscribe them on the tablets of your heart.
Jeremiah 11:13For according to the number of your cities, so were your gods, O Judah. And according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem, so did you establish altars of confusion, altars to offer libations to Baal.
Hosea 8:11For Ephraim multiplied altars to sin, and sanctuaries have become an offense for him.
2 Corinthians 3:3It has been made manifest that you are the Epistle of Christ, ministered by us, and written down, not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God, and not on tablets of stone, but on the fleshly tablets of the heart.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 17:1
In this chapter, I. God convicts the Jews of the sin of idolatry by the notorious evidence of the fact, and condemns them to captivity for it, ver. 1-4 . II. He shows them the folly of all their carnal confidences, which should stand them in no stead when God's time came to contend with them, and that this was one of the sins upon which his controversy with them was grounded, ver. 5-11 . III. The prophet makes his appeal and address to God upon occasion of the malice of his enemies against him, committing himself… Read the whole commentary →