Jeremiah 17:1
The sin of Judah, is written With a stylus of iron, With the point of a diamond: It is engraved Upon the tablet of their heart, And upon the horns of your altars;
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Leviticus 4:17and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood,—and shall sprinkle of the blood seven times before Yahweh, upon the face of the veil;
Job 19:23Oh, then, that my words, could be written, Oh that, in a record, they could be inscribed:
Proverbs 3:3Lovingkindness and faithfulness, let them not forsake thee,—bind them, upon thy neck, write them upon the tablet of thy heart:
Jeremiah 11:13for according to the number of thy cities, have become thy gods O Judah,—and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem, have ye set up altars to the Shameful thing, altars for burning incense to Baal.
Hosea 8:11Because Ephraim hath multiplied altars sinfully, they have become to him the altars of sin.
2 Corinthians 3:3Manifesting yourselves that ye are a letter of Christ, ministered by us,—inscribed—not with ink, but with [the] Spirit of a Living God, not in tablets of stone, but in tablets [which are] hearts of flesh.
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 →