Jeremiah 17:2
When their children shall remember their altars, and their groves, and their green trees upon high mountains,
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 they did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they forgot their God, and served Baalim and Astaroth.
2 Chronicles 33:3And he turned, and built again the high places which Ezechias his father had destroyed: and he built altars to Baalim, and made groves, and he adored all the host of heaven, and worshipped them.
Psalms 78:58They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things.
Isaiah 17:8And he shall not look to the altars which his hands made: and he shall not have respect to the things that his fingers wrought, such as groves and temples.
Jeremiah 7:18The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to offer libations to strange gods, and to provoke me to anger.
Hosea 4:13They offered sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burnt incense upon the hills: under the oak, and the poplar, and the turpentine tree, because the shadow thereof was good: therefore shall your daughters commit fornication, and your spouses shall be adulteresses.
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 →