Jeremiah 2:17
Hast not thou procured this vnto thy selfe, because thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
16Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes haue broken thine head.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:15And if ye shall despise mine ordinances, either if your soule abhorre my lawes, so that yee will not do all my commandements, but breake my couenant,
Deuteronomy 28:15But if thou wilt not obey the voyce of the Lord thy God, to keepe and to do all his commandementes and his ordinances, which I command thee this day, then al these curses shall come vpon thee, and ouertake thee.
Deuteronomy 32:19The Lord then sawe it, and was angrie, for the prouocation of his sonnes and of his daughters.
2 Chronicles 7:19But if ye turne away, and forsake my statutes and my commandements which I haue set before you, and shall goe and serue other gods, and worshippe them,
Job 4:8As I haue seene, they that plow iniquitie, and sowe wickednesse, reape the same.
Psalms 77:20Thou diddest leade thy people like sheepe by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 2:15-20
Expostulations with Israel. ( b. c. 629.) 14 Is Israel a servant? is he a home-born slave? why is he spoiled? 15 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant. 16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head. 17 Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way? 18 And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what… Read the whole commentary →