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Jeremiah 17:2 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 17 · verse 2
Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.Jeremiah 17:2 · King James Version
Jeremiah 17:2 in context
1The 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;
2Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
3O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.
4And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- rememberzâkarproperly, to markH2142 →
- altarsmizbêachan altarH4196 →
- grovesʼăshêrâhAsherah a Phoenician goddessH842 →
- greenraʻănânverdantH7488 →
- treesʻêtsa treeH6086 →
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The people had asked (Jer 16:10), What is our iniquity, and what is our sin? as if they could not be charged with any thing worth speaking of, for which God should enter into judgment with them; their challenge was answered there, but here we have a further reply to it, in which, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-4