Jeremiah 2:30
I have punished your people in vain. They would not accept discipline. 1 Your sword has devoured your prophets like a destructive lion! 1
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1 Kings 19:14Elijah replied, “I have been very zealous for Yahweh, God of hosts, because the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, destroyed your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. Now I, only I, am left and they are also trying to take my life.”
2 Chronicles 28:22This same King Ahaz sinned even more against Yahweh in his time of suffering.
Nehemiah 9:26Then they became disobedient and they rebelled against you. They threw your law behind their backs. They murdered your prophets who had warned them to turn back to you, and they committed great blasphemies.
Isaiah 9:13Yet the people will not turn to him who struck them, nor will they seek Yahweh of hosts. 1
Jeremiah 6:29The bellows are scorched by the fire that is burning them; the lead is consumed in the flames. 1 The refining continues among them, but it is useless, because the evil is not removed. 1
Jeremiah 26:20Meanwhile there was another man who prophesied in the name of Yahweh—Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath Jearim—he also prophesied against this city and this land, agreeing with all of Jeremiah's words.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 2:30-37
Expostulations with Israel. ( b. c. 629.) 29 Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord . 30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion. 31 O generation, see ye the word of the Lord . Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee? 32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people… Read the whole commentary →