Jeremiah 2:7

But I brought you to the land of Carmel, to eat its fruit and other good things! 1 Yet when you came, you defiled my land, you made my inheritance an abomination! 1

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In The King James Version

And I brought you into a plentiful country, to eat the fruit thereof and the goodness thereof; but when ye entered, ye defiled my land, and made mine heritage an abomination.

In Context

6They did not say, 'Where is Yahweh, who brought us up from the land of Egypt? 1 Where is Yahweh, who led us to the wilderness, into the land of the Arabah and pits, 1 in a land of drought and deep darkness, 1 a land through which no one passes and where no one lives?' 1

8The priest did not say, 'Where is Yahweh?' and the experts in the law did not care about me! 1 The shepherds transgressed against me. The prophets prophesied for Baal and walked after unprofitable things. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 18:25The land became defiled, so I punished their sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

Numbers 14:7They spoke to all the community of the people of Israel. They said, “The land that we passed through and examined is a very good land.

Deuteronomy 6:10When Yahweh your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you, with large and very good cities that you did not build,

Deuteronomy 8:7For Yahweh your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing out into valleys and among hills;

Deuteronomy 11:10For the land, where you go in to possess it, is not like the land of Egypt, from where you came, where you sowed your seed and watered it with your foot, like a garden of herbs;

Deuteronomy 32:9For Yahweh's portion is his people; 1 Jacob is his apportioned inheritance. 1

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 2:2-9

Jeremiah's First Message; The Divine Goodness to Israel. ( b. c. 629.) 1 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2 Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the Lord ; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown. 3 Israel was holiness unto the Lord , and the first-fruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord . 4 Hear ye the word of the… Read the whole commentary →

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