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Jeremiah 19:4 Cross-References
Explore 20 cross-references for Jeremiah 19:4 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Jeremiah chapter 19 verse 4 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;”
Jeremiah 19:4 (KJV)
Commentary on Jeremiah 19:4
The indictment specifies Judah's sin: "Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place." "Forsaken" (azav, עָזַב) means abandoned, left behind—covenant breach. "Estranged" (nakhar, נָכַר) means treated as foreign, profaned what should be holy. They've transformed God's city into alien territory through idolatry: "burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah."The phrase "whom neither they nor their fathers have known" emphasizes these gods' foreignness—not inherited ancestral traditions but recently adopted apostasy. C...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Jeremiah 19:4
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“Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search”
“until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin”
“confusion”
“who forget my holy mountain”
“murder”
“the spring of living waters”
“and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.”
“in that you have forsaken Yahweh your God”
“the hope of Israel”
“Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to the shameful thing”