Jeremiah 7:9
Will all of you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom all of you know not;
Updated King James Version
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In Context
8Behold, all of you trust in lying words, that cannot profit.
Cross References
Exodus 20:3You shall have no other gods before me.
Judges 5:8They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel?
Psalms 50:16But unto the wicked God says, What have you to do to declare my statutes, or that you should take my covenant in your mouth?
Jeremiah 5:2And though they say, The LORD lives; surely they swear falsely.
Jeremiah 9:2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of travelling men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Jeremiah 11:17For the LORD of hosts, that planted you, has pronounced evil against you, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger in offering incense unto 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 →