Jeremiah 3:6
The LORD said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the harlot.
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Judges 2:17And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.
2 Kings 17:7For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
Psalms 106:39Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.
Isaiah 57:7Upon a lofty and high mountain have you set your bed: even thither went you up to offer sacrifice.
Jeremiah 2:20For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bands; and you said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree you wander, playing the harlot.
Jeremiah 3:11And the LORD said unto me, The backsliding Israel has justified herself more than treacherous Judah.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 3:2-6
The Wickedness of Israel. ( b. c. 620.) 1 They say, If a man put away his wife, and she go from him, and become another man's, shall he return unto her again? shall not that land be greatly polluted? but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the Lord . 2 Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy… Read the whole commentary →