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Jeremiah 9:14 KJV
Jeremiah · chapter 9 · verse 14
But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:Jeremiah 9:14 · King James Version
Jeremiah 9:14 in context
12Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
13And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
14But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:
15Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.
16I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- imaginationshᵉrîyrûwthobstinacyH8307 →
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- walkedyâlakto walkH3212 →
- BaalimBaʻalBaal, a Phoenician deityH1168 →
- afterʼacharproperly, the hind partH310 →
- heartlêbthe heartH3820 →
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Two things the prophet designs, in these verses, with reference to the approaching destruction of Judah and Jerusalem: - 1. To convince people of the justice of God in it, that they had by sin brought it upon themselves and that therefore they had no reason to quarrel with God, who did them no wrong at all, but a…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 12-22