Jeremiah 2:20

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For long ago I   broke your yoke; I  tore off your chains. You insisted, ‘I will not serve! ’ On every high hill and under every green tree you lay down like a prostitute.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:2

Destroy completely all the places where the nations that you are driving out worship their gods   #– #on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

Leviticus 26:13

I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the bars of your yoke  and enabled you to live in freedom.

Jeremiah 17:2

while their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles, by the green trees on the high hills –

Hosea 3:3

I said to her, ‘You are to live with me many days. You must not be promiscuous or belong to any man, and I will act the same way towards you.’

Jeremiah 30:8

On that day – this is the declaration of the  Lord of Armies – I will break his yoke from your neck and tear off your chains, and strangers will never again enslave him.

Isaiah 1:21

The faithful town – what an adulteress  she has become! She was once full of justice. Righteousness once dwelt in her, but now, murderers!

Nahum 1:13

For I will now break off his yoke from you and tear off your shackles.

Hosea 2:5

Yes, their mother is promiscuous; she conceived them and acted shamefully. For she thought, ‘I will follow my lovers, the men who give me my food and water, my wool and flax, my oil and drink.’

Ezekiel 23:5

‘Oholah acted like a prostitute even though she was mine. She lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians:  warriors

Ezekiel 20:28

When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree,  they offered their sacrifices and presented their offensive offerings there. They also sent up their pleasing aromas and poured out their drink offerings there.

Ezekiel 16:41

They will burn your houses and execute judgements against you in the sight of many women. I will stop you from being a prostitute,  and you will never again pay fees for lovers.

Ezekiel 16:31

building your mound at the head of every street and making your elevated place in every square. But you were unlike a prostitute because you scorned payment.

Ezekiel 16:28

Then you engaged in prostitution with the Assyrian men because you were not satisfied.  Even though you did this with them, you were still not satisfied.

Isaiah 14:25

I will break Assyria  in my land; I will tread him down on my mountain. Then his yoke will be taken from them, and his burden will be removed from their shoulders.

Isaiah 10:27

On that day his burden will fall from your shoulders, and his yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because your neck will be too large.  ,

Isaiah 9:4

For you have shattered their oppressive yoke and the rod on their shoulders, the staff of their oppressor, just as you did on the day of Midian.

1 Kings 12:32

Jeroboam made a festival in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival in Judah.  He offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had made. He also stationed the priests in Bethel for the high places he had made.

1 Samuel 12:10

Then they cried out to the Lord and said, “We have sinned, for we abandoned the Lord and worshipped the Baals and the Ashtoreths. Now rescue us from the power of our enemies,  and we will serve you.”

Joshua 24:26

Joshua recorded these things in the book of the law of God;  he also took a large stone and set it up there under the oak at the sanctuary of the Lord.

Joshua 24:24

So the people said to Joshua, ‘We will worship the Lord our God and obey him.’

Joshua 1:16

They answered Joshua, ‘Everything you have commanded us we will do, and everywhere you send us we will go.

Deuteronomy 26:17

Today you have affirmed that the Lord is your God and that you will walk in his ways, keep his statutes, commands, and ordinances, and obey him.

Deuteronomy 15:15

Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed  you; that is why I am giving you this command today.

Deuteronomy 5:27

Go near and listen to everything the Lord our God says. Then you can tell us everything the Lord our God tells you; we will listen and obey.”

Deuteronomy 4:34

Or has a god attempted to go and take a nation as his own out of another nation, by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, by great terrors, as the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

Deuteronomy 4:20

But the Lord selected you and brought you out of Egypt’s iron furnace  to be a people for his inheritance, as you are today.

Exodus 24:3

Moses came and told the people all the commands of the Lord and all the ordinances. Then all the people responded with a single voice, ‘We will do everything that the Lord has commanded.’

Exodus 19:8

Then all the people responded together, ‘We will do all that the Lord has spoken.’  So Moses brought the people’s words back to the Lord.

Exodus 3:8

and I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them from that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey   #– #the territory of the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Revelation 17:1

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls  came and spoke with me: ‘Come, I will show you the judgement of the notorious prostitute  , who is seated on many  waters.

1 Kings 14:23

They also built for themselves high places,  sacred pillars,  and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree;

Jeremiah 2:31

Evil generation, pay attention to the word of the  Lord! Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do my people claim, ‘We will go where we want; we will no longer come to you’?

Jeremiah 3:13

Only acknowledge your guilt   – you have rebelled against the  Lord your God. You have scattered your favours to strangers under every green tree and have not obeyed me. This is the  Lord’s declaration.

Jeremiah 5:5

I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the  Lord, the justice of their God. However, these also had broken the yoke and torn off the chains.

Jeremiah 13:27

Your adulteries and your lustful neighing, your depraved prostitution on the hills, in the fields – I have seen your abhorrent acts. Woe to you, Jerusalem! You are unclean – for how long yet?

Hosea 4:13

They sacrifice on the mountaintops, and they burn offerings on the hills, and under oaks, poplars, and terebinths, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters act promiscuously and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

Judges 2:11

The Israelites did what was evil in the Lord’s sight.  They worshipped the Baals

Judges 2:13

for they abandoned him and worshipped Baal and the Ashtoreths.

Judges 10:6

Then the Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.  They worshipped the Baals and the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and the Philistines.  They abandoned the Lord and did not worship him.

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, he said this to him: Go and marry a woman of promiscuity, and have children of promiscuity, for the land is committing blatant acts of promiscuity by abandoning the  Lord.

Hosea 9:1

Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly as the nations do, for you have acted promiscuously,  leaving your God. You love the wages of a prostitute on every grain threshing-floor.