Jeremiah 17:2
What does Jeremiah 17:2 mean?
A plain-English look at Jeremiah 17:2 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees upon the high hills.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862As their sons remember their altars and their shrines, By the green tree, by the high hills.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752When their children shall remember their altars, and their groves, and their green trees upon the high mountains,
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890whilst their children remember their altars and their Asherahs, by the green trees, upon the high hills.
Context
v.1The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, andwith the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the tablet of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
v.2This passage
v.3O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures for a spoil, and thy high places, because of sin, throughout all thy borders.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 78:58
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, And moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
- Judges 3:7
And the children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and forgat Jehovah their God, and served the Baalim and the Asheroth.
- Ezekiel 20:28
For when I had brought them into the land, which I sware to give unto them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there also they made their sweet savor, and they poured out there their drink-offerings.
- Hosea 4:13
They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains, and burn incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and terebinths, because the shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters play the harlot, and your brides commit adultery.
- Jeremiah 7:18
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
- 2 Chronicles 24:18
And they forsook the house of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.
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