Jeremiah 2:20 Cross References

Jeremiah 2:20

20: Long ago I broke your yoke and tore away the chains of your slavery, but still you would not obey me. On every hill and under every green tree, you have prostituted yourselves by bowing down to idols.

Deuteronomy 12:2

  1. "When you drive out the nations that live there, you must destroy all the places where they worship their gods--high on the mountains, up on the hills, and under every green tree.

Leviticus 26:13

  1. I, the LORD, am your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt so you would no longer be slaves. I have lifted the yoke of slavery from your neck so you can walk free with your heads held high.

Hosea 3:3

  1. Then I said to her, "You must live in my house for many days and stop your prostitution. During this time, you will not have sexual intercourse with anyone, not even with me. "

Jeremiah 17:2

  1. Even their children go to worship at their sacred altars and Asherah poles, beneath every green tree and on every high hill.

Isaiah 1:21

  1. See how Jerusalem, once so faithful, has become a prostitute. Once the home of justice and righteousness, she is now filled with murderers.

Jeremiah 30:8

  1. "For in that day, says the LORD Almighty, I will break the yoke from their necks and snap their chains. Foreigners will no longer be their masters.

Ezekiel 20:28

  1. for when I brought them into the land I had promised them, they offered sacrifices and incense on every high hill and under every green tree they saw! They roused my fury as they offered up sacrifices to their gods. They brought their perfumes and incense and poured out their drink offerings to them!

Jeremiah 3:6

  1. During the reign of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, "Have you seen what fickle Israel does? Like a wife who commits adultery, Israel has worshiped other gods on every hill and under every green tree.
  2. I thought that after she had done all this she would return to me. But she did not come back. And though her faithless sister Judah saw this,
  3. she paid no attention. She saw that I had divorced faithless Israel and sent her away. But now Judah, too, has left me and given herself to prostitution.

Exodus 3:8

  1. So I have come to rescue them from the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own good and spacious land. It is a land flowing with milk and honey--the land where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites live.

Ezekiel 16:28

  1. You have prostituted yourselves with the Assyrians, too. It seems you can never find enough new lovers! And after your prostitution there, you still were not satisfied.

Exodus 24:3

  1. When Moses had announced to the people all the teachings and regulations the LORD had given him, they answered in unison, "We will do everything the LORD has told us to do."

Psalms 78:58

  1. They made God angry by building altars to other gods; they made him jealous with their idols.

Ezekiel 16:31

  1. You build your pagan shrines on every street corner and your altars to idols in every square. You have been worse than a prostitute, so eager for sin that you have not even demanded payment for your love!

Deuteronomy 15:15

  1. Remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you! That is why I am giving you this command.

Deuteronomy 4:20

  1. Remember that the LORD rescued you from the burning furnace of Egypt to become his own people and special possession; that is what you are today.

Exodus 34:14

  1. You must worship no other gods, but only the LORD, for he is a God who is passionate about his relationship with you.
  2. "Do not make treaties of any kind with the people living in the land. They are spiritual prostitutes, committing adultery against me by sacrificing to their gods. If you make peace with them, they will invite you to go with them to worship their gods, and you are likely to do it.
  3. And you will accept their daughters, who worship other gods, as wives for your sons. Then they will cause your sons to commit adultery against me by worshiping other gods.

Isaiah 10:27

  1. In that day the LORD will end the bondage of his people. He will break the yoke of slavery and lift it from their shoulders.

Deuteronomy 4:34

  1. Has any other god taken one nation for himself by rescuing it from another by means of trials, miraculous signs, wonders, war, awesome power, and terrifying acts? Yet that is what the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, right before your very eyes.

Hosea 2:5

  1. For their mother is a shameless prostitute and became pregnant in a shameful way. She said, `I'll run after other lovers and sell myself to them for food and drink, for clothing of wool and linen, and for olive oil.'

Isaiah 14:25

  1. I will break the Assyrians when they are in Israel; I will trample them on my mountains. My people will no longer be their slaves.

Ezekiel 23:5

  1. "Then Oholah lusted after other lovers instead of me, and she gave her love to the Assyrians, her neighbors.

Isaiah 9:4

  1. For God will break the chains that bind his people and the whip that scourges them, just as he did when he destroyed the army of Midian with Gideon's little band.

Ezekiel 16:15

  1. "But you thought you could get along without me, so you trusted instead in your fame and beauty. You gave yourself as a prostitute to every man who came along. Your beauty was theirs for the asking!
  2. You used the lovely things I gave you to make shrines for idols, where you carried out your acts of prostitution. Unbelievable! How could such a thing ever happen?

Joshua 24:26

  1. Joshua recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God. As a reminder of their agreement, he took a huge stone and rolled it beneath the oak tree beside the Tabernacle of the LORD.

Joshua 1:16

  1. They answered Joshua, "We will do whatever you command us, and we will go wherever you send us.

Exodus 19:8

  1. They all responded together, "We will certainly do everything the LORD asks of us." So Moses brought the people's answer back to the LORD.

Deuteronomy 26:17

  1. You have declared today that the LORD is your God. You have promised to obey his laws, commands, and regulations by walking in his ways and doing everything he tells you.

Isaiah 57:5

  1. You worship your idols with great passion beneath every green tree. You slaughter your children as human sacrifices down in the valleys, under overhanging rocks.
  2. Your gods are the smooth stones in the valleys. You worship them with drink offerings and grain offerings. They, not I, are your inheritance. Does all this make me happy?
  3. You have committed adultery on the mountaintops by worshiping idols there, and so you have been unfaithful to me.

1 Samuel 12:10

  1. "Then they cried to the LORD again and confessed, `We have sinned by turning away from the LORD and worshiping the images of Baal and Ashtoreth. But we will worship you and you alone if you will rescue us from our enemies.'

Joshua 24:24

  1. The people said to Joshua, "We will serve the LORD our God. We will obey him alone."

Ezekiel 16:41

  1. They will burn your homes and punish you in front of many women. I will see to it that you stop your prostitution and end your payments to your many lovers.

Deuteronomy 5:27

  1. You go and listen to what the LORD our God says. Then come and tell us everything he tells you, and we will listen and obey.'

Ezekiel 16:24

  1. you built a pagan shrine and put altars to idols in every town square.
  2. On every street corner you defiled your beauty, offering your body to every passerby in an endless stream of prostitution.

Jeremiah 3:1

  1. "If a man divorces a woman and she marries someone else, he is not to take her back again, for that would surely corrupt the land. But you have prostituted yourself with many lovers, says the LORD. Yet I am still calling you to come back to me.
  2. "Look all around you. Is there anywhere in the entire land where you have not been defiled by your adulteries? You sit like a prostitute beside the road waiting for a client. You sit alone like a nomad in the desert. You have polluted the land with your prostitution and wickedness.

Nahum 1:13

  1. Now I will break your chains and release you from Assyrian oppression."

1 Kings 12:32

  1. Jeroboam also instituted a religious festival in Bethel, held on a day in midautumn, similar to the annual Festival of Shelters in Judah. There at Bethel he himself offered sacrifices to the calves he had made. And it was at Bethel that he appointed priests for the pagan shrines he had made.
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