Jeremiah 17:1

The sin of Judah is written down with a pen of iron, with the point of a diamond: it is engraved upon the table of their heart, and on the horns of your altars.

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In The King James Version

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;

In Context

2Like their remembrance of their children, so are [to them] their altars and their groves by [every] green tree upon the high hills.

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Cross References

Leviticus 4:17And the priest shall dip his finger in some of the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord, before the vail.

Job 19:23Oh who would but grant, that my words might be written down! oh who would grant that they were entered in a book!

Proverbs 3:3Let kindness and truth not forsake thee; bind them about thy throat; write them upon the table of thy heart:

Jeremiah 11:13For equal to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and equal to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to the disgraceful idol, altars, to burn incense unto Ba'al.

Hosea 8:11Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars to sin, the altars have been unto him the means of sinning.

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 →

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