Jeremiah 2:20

New American Bible - revised edition

Long ago you broke your yoke, you tore off your bonds. You said, “I will not serve.” On every high hill, under every green tree, you sprawled and served as a prostitute.

Cross References

1 Kings 12:32

Jeroboam established a feast in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month like the pilgrimage feast in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did this in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves he had made. He stationed in Bethel the priests of the high places he had built.

1 Kings 14:23

They, too, built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and asherahs, upon every high hill and under every green tree.

Psalm 107:14

He brought them forth from darkness and the shadow of death and broke their chains asunder.

Psalm 2:3

“Let us break their shackles and cast off their chains from us!”

Psalm 78:58

They enraged him with their high places, and with their idols provoked him to jealous anger.

Exodus 19:8

all the people answered together, “Everything the Lord has said, we will do.” Then Moses brought back to the Lord the response of the people.

Exodus 24:3

When Moses came to the people and related all the words and ordinances of the Lord, they all answered with one voice, “We will do everything that the Lord has told us.”

Exodus 3:8

Therefore I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them up from that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Hivites and the Jebusites.

Isaiah 1:21

How she has become a prostitute, the faithful city, so upright! Justice used to lodge within her, but now, murderers.

Isaiah 10:27

On that day, His burden shall be taken from your shoulder, and his yoke shattered from your neck. He has come up from Rimmon,

Isaiah 14:25

To break the Assyrian in my land and trample him on my mountains; Then his yoke shall be removed from them, and his burden from their shoulder.

Isaiah 9:4

For every boot that tramped in battle, every cloak rolled in blood, will be burned as fuel for fire.

Jeremiah 13:27

Your adulteries, your neighings, your shameless prostitutions: On the hills, in the fields I see your detestable crimes. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are clean?

Jeremiah 17:2

when their children remember their altars and their asherahs, beside the green trees, on the high hills,

Jeremiah 2:31

You people of this generation, consider the word of the Lord: Have I become a wilderness to Israel, a land of gloom? Why then do my people say, “We have moved on, we will not come to you any more”?

Jeremiah 3:13

Only admit your guilt: how you have rebelled against the Lord, your God, How you ran here and there to strangers under every green tree and would not listen to my voice—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 30:8

On that day—oracle of the Lord of hosts—I will break his yoke off your neck and snap your bonds. Strangers shall no longer enslave them;

Jeremiah 5:5

Let me go to the leaders and speak with them; For they must know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God. But, one and all, they have broken the yoke, torn off the harness.

Ezekiel 16:28

You also served as a prostitute for the Assyrians, because you were not satisfied. Even after serving as a prostitute for them, you were still not satisfied.

Ezekiel 16:31

when you built your platform at every intersection and set up your high place in every public square. But unlike a prostitute, you disdained payment.

Ezekiel 16:41

They shall set fire to your homes and inflict punishments on you while many women watch. Thus I will put an end to your prostitution, and you shall never again offer payment.

Ezekiel 20:28

When I brought them to the land I had sworn to give them, and they saw all its high hills and leafy trees, there they offered sacrifices, there they made offerings to provoke me, there they sent up sweet-smelling oblations, there they poured out their libations.

Ezekiel 23:5

Oholah became a prostitute while married to me and lusted after her lovers, the Assyrians: warriors

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord began to speak with Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea: Go, get for yourself a woman of prostitution and children of prostitution, for the land prostitutes itself, turning away from the Lord.

Hosea 2:5

Or I will strip her naked, leaving her as on the day of her birth; I will make her like the wilderness, make her like an arid land, and let her die of thirst.

Hosea 3:3

Then I said to her: “You will wait for me for many days; you will not prostitute yourself Or belong to any man; I in turn will wait for you.”

Hosea 4:13

On the mountaintops they offer sacrifice and on the hills they burn incense, Beneath oak and poplar and terebinth, because of their pleasant shade. Therefore your daughters prostitute themselves, and your daughters-in-law commit adultery.

Hosea 9:1

Do not rejoice, Israel, do not exult like the nations! For you have prostituted yourself, abandoning your God, loving a prostitute’s fee upon every threshing floor.

Leviticus 26:13

I, the Lord, am your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be their slaves no more, breaking the bars of your yoke and making you walk erect. The Punishment of Disobedience.

Nahum 1:13

Now I will break his yoke off of you, and tear off your bonds.

Deuteronomy 12:2

Destroy entirely all the places where the nations you are to dispossess serve their gods, on the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

Deuteronomy 15:15

For remember that you too were slaves in the land of Egypt, and the Lord, your God, redeemed you. That is why I am giving you this command today.

Deuteronomy 26:17

Today you have accepted the Lord’s agreement: he will be your God, and you will walk in his ways, observe his statutes, commandments, and ordinances, and obey his voice.

Deuteronomy 4:20

but you the Lord has taken and led out of that iron foundry, Egypt, that you might be his people, his heritage, as you are today.

Deuteronomy 4:34

Or did any god venture to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by testings, by signs and wonders, by war, with strong hand and outstretched arm, and by great terrors, all of which the Lord, your God, did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

Deuteronomy 5:27

You go closer and listen to all that the Lord, our God, will say, and then tell us what the Lord, our God, tells you; we will listen and obey.”

Joshua 1:16

They answered Joshua, “We will do all you have commanded us, and we will go wherever you send us.

Joshua 24:24

Then the people promised Joshua, “We will serve the Lord, our God, and will listen to his voice.”

Joshua 24:26

Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the terebinth that was in the sanctuary of the Lord.

Revelation 17:1

Then one of the seven angels who were holding the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come here. I will show you the judgment on the great harlot who lives near the many waters.

Judges 10:6

The Israelites again did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, serving the Baals and Ashtarts, the gods of Aram, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. Since they had abandoned the Lord and would not serve him,

Judges 2:11

the Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They served the Baals,

Judges 2:13

Because they had abandoned the Lord and served Baal and the Astartes,

1 Samuel 12:10

They cried out to the Lord and said, ‘We have sinned because we abandoned the Lord and served the Baals and Astartes. Now deliver us from the power of our enemies, and we will serve you.’