Jeremiah, 2
23. How can you say, `I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Ba'als'? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done -- a restive young camel interlacing her tracks,
23. How can you say, `I am not defiled, I have not gone after the Ba'als'? Look at your way in the valley; know what you have done -- a restive young camel interlacing her tracks,
Jeremiah 2 begins with the prophet rebuking the people of Israel to abandon God and follow after other gods. He makes an analogy between Israel's love for other gods and prostitution, describing how Israel abandoned his faithfulness to God and prostituted himself with idols of wood and stone. Below are five verses related to the topics covered in Jeremiah 2:
Deuteronomy 32:15: "But Jesurum gained and gave me2 (fat, thickened, and covered you with fat); and left God who did, and despised the rock of his salvation." The people of Israel have become complacent and satisfied with their material prosperity, forgetting God and despising His salvation.
Psalm 106:19-21: "They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped the cast image. Thus they exchanged their glory by the figure of an ox that eats herb. They forgot God, his Savior, who had done great things in Egypt. " This verse describes the rebellion of Israel against God in worshiping an idol, forgetting the great miracles He performed to free them from slavery in Egypt.
Ezekiel 23:30: "These things will be done with you, because you prostitute you with the nations, contaminating you with your idols." This verse talks about the consequences of Israel's idolatry and infidelity, resulting in punishments and judgments.
Exodus 20:3: "You will not have other gods before me." This is the first commandment given to Moses by God, which emphasizes the importance of loving and worshiping only to God, not to other gods or idols.
Hosea 2:13: "She did not acknowledge that I was the one who gave her the wheat, the new wine and the oil, and multiply the silver and the gold, which they used for Baal." This verse describes how Israel forgot that God was the source of all his material blessings, giving his prosperity to Baal, a false God.
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