Jeremiah 2:8

Lighthouse Bible 2006

The priests did not say, Where is the LORD? and those who handle the law did not know me: the shepherds also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

Cross References

1 Kings 18:22

Then said Elijah to the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men.

1 Kings 18:29

And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.

1 Kings 18:40

And Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.

Job 35:10

But none says, Where is God my maker, who gives songs in the night;

Isaiah 28:7

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink have left the pathway; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up by wine, they have left the pathway through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

Isaiah 29:10

For the LORD has poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers has he covered.

Isaiah 30:5

They were all ashamed of a people that could not profit them, nor be a help nor profit, but a shame, and also a reproach.

Jeremiah 10:21

For the shepherds have become stupid, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

Jeremiah 12:10

Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

Jeremiah 16:19

O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come to you from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things in which there is no profit.

Jeremiah 18:18

Then they said, Come, and let us devise plans against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.

Jeremiah 2:11

Has a nation changed their gods, which are yet no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

Jeremiah 2:6

Neither did they say, Where is the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?

Jeremiah 4:22

For my people are foolish, they have not known me; they are stupid children, and they have no understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do at the end of it?

Jeremiah 7:8

Behold, you trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

Jeremiah 9:14

But have walked according to the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

Ezekiel 22:26

Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shown any difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

Ezekiel 34:2

Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say to them, Thus says the Lord GOD to the shepherds; Woe be to the shepherds of Israel who feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the flocks?

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, so that you shall be no priest to me: seeing that you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

Habakkuk 2:18

What does the sculptured image profit, that its maker has carved it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusts in it, to make dumb idols?

Matthew 16:26

For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

Luke 11:52

Woe to you, lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge: you did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered.

John 16:3

And these things will they do to you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

John 8:55

Yet you have not known him; but I know him: and if I would say, I do not know him, I would be a liar like you: but I know him, and keep his saying.

2 Corinthians 4:2

But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

Deuteronomy 33:10

They shall teach Jacob your judgments, and Israel your law: they shall put incense before you, and whole burnt sacrifice upon your altar.

1 Samuel 12:21

And turn not aside: for then would you go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.

1 Samuel 2:12

Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.