Jeremiah 17:1

The sinne of Iudah is written with a pen of yron, and with the poynt of a diamonde, and grauen vpon the table of their heart, and vpon the hornes of your altars.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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;

In Context

2They remember their altars as their children, with their groues by the greene trees vpon the hilles.

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Cross References

Leviticus 4:17And the Priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seuen times before the Lord, euen before the vaile.

Job 19:23Oh that my wordes were nowe written! oh that they were written euen in a booke,

Proverbs 3:3Let not mercie and trueth forsake thee: binde them on thy necke, and write them vpon the table of thine heart.

Jeremiah 11:13For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Iudah, and according to the number of the streetes of Ierusalem haue yee set vp altars of confusion, euen altars to burne incense vnto Baal.

Hosea 8:11Because Ephraim hath made many altars to sinne, his altars shalbe to sinne.

2 Corinthians 3:3In that yee are manifest, to be the Epistle of Christ, ministred by vs, and written, not with yncke, but with the Spirite of the liuing God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 17:1

In this chapter, I. God convicts the Jews of the sin of idolatry by the notorious evidence of the fact, and condemns them to captivity for it, ver. 1-4 . II. He shows them the folly of all their carnal confidences, which should stand them in no stead when God's time came to contend with them, and that this was one of the sins upon which his controversy with them was grounded, ver. 5-11 . III. The prophet makes his appeal and address to God upon occasion of the malice of his enemies against him, committing himself… Read the whole commentary →

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