Jeremiah 16:11
then you shall tell them, ‘Because your fathers have forsaken me,’ says the LORD, ‘and have walked after other gods, have served them, have worshiped them, have forsaken me, and have not kept my law.
World English Bible Classic
In The King James Version
In Context
Cross References
Judges 2:11The children of Israel did that which was evil in the LORD’s sight, and served the Baals.
Judges 2:13They abandoned the LORD, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.
1 Kings 9:9and they will answer, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD their God, who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and embraced other gods, and worshiped them, and served them. Therefore the LORD has brought all this evil on them.’”
Psalms 106:35but mixed themselves with the nations, and learned their works.
Jeremiah 5:7“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.
Jeremiah 9:14but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 16:11-14
Causes of Divine Judgments. ( b. c. 605.) 10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God? 11 Then shalt thou say unto them, Because your fathers have forsaken me, saith the Lord , and have walked after other gods, and have served them, and have worshipped them, and have forsaken me, and have not… Read the whole commentary →