Jeremiah 2:20

God's Word

“Long ago you broke off your yoke, tore off your chains, and said that you wouldn’t be a slave. You lay down and acted like a prostitute on every high hill and under every large tree.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:32

Jeroboam appointed a festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, just like the festival in Judah. He went to the altar in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had made. He appointed priests from the illegal worship sites ⌞to serve⌟ in Bethel.

1 Kings 14:23

They built worship sites for themselves and ⌞put up⌟ large stones and Asherah poles to worship on every high hill and under every large tree.

Psalm 107:14

He brought them out of the dark, out of death’s shadow. He broke apart their chains.

Psalm 2:3

“Let’s break apart their chains and shake off their ropes.”

Psalm 78:58

They made him angry because of their illegal worship sites. They made him furious because they worshiped idols.

Exodus 19:8

All the people answered together, “We will do everything the Lord has said.” So Moses brought their answer back to the Lord.

Exodus 24:3

Moses went and told the people all the Lord’s words and legal decisions. Then all the people answered with one voice, “We will do everything the Lord has told us to do.”

Exodus 3:8

I have come to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them from that land to a good land with plenty of room ⌞for everyone⌟. It is a land flowing with milk and honey where the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites live.

Isaiah 1:21

How the faithful town has become a prostitute! She was full of justice, and righteousness lived in her. But now murderers live there!

Isaiah 10:27

At that time their burden will be removed from your shoulders. Their yoke  will be removed from your neck. The yoke will be torn away because you have grown fat.

Isaiah 14:25

I’ll crush Assyria on my land. I’ll trample it underfoot on my mountains. Then its yoke  will be removed from my people, and its burden will be removed from their shoulders.”

Isaiah 9:4

You will break the yoke  that burdens them, the bar that is across their shoulders, and the stick used by their oppressor, as ⌞you did in the battle against⌟ Midian.

Jeremiah 13:27

I have seen you commit adultery and squeal with delight. I have seen you act like a shameless prostitute on the hills and in the fields. How horrible it will be for you, Jerusalem! Will you ever be clean?”

Jeremiah 17:2

Even their children remember their altars and their poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah beside large trees on high hills

Jeremiah 2:31

“Consider the Lord’s word, people of this generation. Haven’t I been a desert, a land of thick darkness, for Israel? Why do my people say that they are free to wander around and no longer come to me?

Jeremiah 3:13

Admit that you’ve done wrong! You have rebelled against the Lord your God. You have given yourself to strangers under every large tree. You have not obeyed me,’ declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 30:8

“On that day,” declares the Lord of Armies, “I will break the yokes  off your necks and tear off your ropes. Foreigners will no longer make you serve them.

Jeremiah 5:5

Let me go to important people and speak to them. They know the way of the Lord and the justice that God demands.” But they, too, had broken off their yokes and torn off their chains.

Ezekiel 16:28

“ ‘You had sex with the Assyrians because you weren’t satisfied. You still weren’t satisfied.

Ezekiel 16:31

You build your platforms at the head of every street and place your illegal worship sites in every square. Yet, you aren’t like other prostitutes, because you don’t want to be paid.

Ezekiel 16:41

They will burn your houses and punish you in the presence of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will no longer pay others.

Ezekiel 20:28

I brought them to the land that I promised to give them. When they saw any high hill or any leafy tree, they made sacrifices and brought offerings there to make me angry. There they offered their sacrifices and poured out their wine offerings.

Ezekiel 23:5

Oholah acted like a prostitute, although she was my wife. She lusted after her Assyrian lovers who lived nearby.

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, the Lord told him, “Marry a prostitute and have children with that prostitute. The people in this land have acted like prostitutes and abandoned the Lord.”

Hosea 2:5

Their mother acted like a prostitute. The woman who became pregnant with them did shameful things. She said, ‘I’ll chase after my lovers. They will give me food and water, wool and linen, olive oil and wine.’

Hosea 3:3

Then I told her, “You must wait for me a long time. Don’t be a prostitute or offer yourself to any man. I will wait for you.”

Hosea 4:13

They offer sacrifices on mountaintops, and they burn incense on the hills under oaks, poplars, and other trees. They think that these trees provide good shade. “That is why your daughters become prostitutes, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

Hosea 9:1

Israel, don’t rejoice. Don’t celebrate as other nations do. You have been unfaithful to your God. You have sold sex on every threshing floor.

Leviticus 26:13

I am the Lord your God. I brought you out of Egypt so that you are no longer slaves of the Egyptians. I have broken their power over you and made you live as a free people.

Nahum 1:13

But now I will break Nineveh’s yoke  off of you and tear its chains from you.

Deuteronomy 12:2

Completely destroy all the worship sites on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every large tree. The people you’re forcing out worship their gods in these places.

Deuteronomy 15:15

Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and the Lord your God freed you. That’s why I’m giving you this command today.

Deuteronomy 26:17

Today you have declared that the Lord is your God and that you will follow his directions, obey his laws, commands, and rules, and listen to him.

Deuteronomy 4:20

But you are the people the Lord brought out of Egypt, the iron smelter, in order to make you his own people as you still are today.

Deuteronomy 4:34

Or has any god ever tried to come and take one nation away from another for himself? The Lord your God used his mighty hand and powerful arm to do this for you in Egypt. He did this using plagues, miraculous signs, amazing things, and war. He did his great and awe-inspiring deeds in front of you.

Deuteronomy 5:27

⌞Moses,⌟ go and listen to everything that the Lord our God says. Then tell us whatever the Lord our God tells you. We’ll listen and obey.”

Joshua 1:16

The people responded to Joshua, “We’ll do everything you tell us and go wherever you send us.

Joshua 24:24

The people replied to Joshua, “We will serve the Lord our God and obey him.”

Joshua 24:26

Joshua wrote these things in the Book of God’s Teachings. Then he took a large stone and set it up under the oak tree at the Lord’s holy place.

Revelation 17:1

One of the seven angels who held the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of that notorious prostitute who sits on raging waters.

Judges 10:6

The people of Israel again did what the Lord considered evil. They began to serve other gods and goddesses—the Baals and the Astartes—and the gods of Aram, Sidon, Moab, Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines. They abandoned the Lord and did not serve him.

Judges 2:11

The people of Israel did what the Lord considered evil. They began to serve other gods—the Baals.

Judges 2:13

They abandoned the Lord to serve the god Baal and the goddess Astarte.

1 Samuel 12:10

Then they cried out to the Lord and said, ‘We have sinned. We have abandoned the Lord and served other gods and goddesses—the Baals and the Astartes. But rescue us from our enemies now, and we will serve you.’