Jeremiah 7:9
Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,
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In Context
8Behold, you trust in lying words that can’t profit.
Cross References
Exodus 20:3“You shall have no other gods before me.
Judges 5:8They chose new gods. Then war was in the gates. Was there a shield or spear seen amongst forty thousand in Israel?
Psalms 50:16But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
Jeremiah 5:2Though they say, ‘As the LORD lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”
Jeremiah 9:2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Jeremiah 11:17For the LORD of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done to themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 7:2-16
A Call of Repentance. ( b. c. 606.) 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord , saying, 2 Stand in the gate of the Lord 's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord , all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the Lord . 3 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. 4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord , The temple of the Lord , The temple of the Lord , are… Read the whole commentary →