Jeremiah 17:2
While their children remember the altars, and the images of Astarte, Near the green trees, And upon the high hills.
Noyes Bible
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
Psalms 78:58They provoked his anger by their high places, And stirred up his jealousy by their graven images.
Isaiah 17:8He shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, Nor have respect to that which his fingers have made, The images of Astarte and the Sun-pillars.
Jeremiah 7:18The sons gather the wood, And the fathers kindle the fire, And the women knead dough, To make cakes for the queen of heaven, And to pour out libations to strange gods, That they may vex me.
Hosea 4:13On the tops of the mountains they sacrifice, And on the hills they burn incense, Under the oak, and the poplar, and the terebinth, Because their shade is pleasant. Therefore your daughters commit fornication, And your daughters-in-law commit adultery;
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 →