Jeremiah 2:20

Overview - Jeremiah 2
God having shewed his former kindness, expostulates with the Jews on their causeless and unexampled revolt.
14 They are the causes of their own calamities.
18 The sins and idolatries of Judah.
35 Her confidence is rejected.
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Jeremiah 2:20  (King James Version)
For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
 


For of
30:8 Exodus 3:8 ; Leviticus 26:13 ; Deuteronomy 4:20 Deuteronomy 4:34 ; 15:15 Isaiah 9:4 ; 10:27 14:25
Nahum 1:13

and thou saidst
Exodus 19:8 ; 24:3 Deuteronomy 5:27 ; 26:17 Joshua 1:16 ; 24:26-24 1 Samuel 12:10

transgress
or, serve. when upon.
3:6 Deuteronomy 12:2 ; 1 Kings 12:32 ; Psalms 78:58 ; Isaiah 57:5-7 ; Ezekiel 16:24 Ezekiel 16:25 Ezekiel 16:31
Ezekiel 20:28

playing
Jeremiah 3:1 Jeremiah 3:6-8 Exodus 34:14-16 ; Deuteronomy 12:2 ; Isaiah 1:21 ; Ezekiel 16:15 Ezekiel 16:16 Ezekiel 16:28 Ezekiel 16:41 ; 23:5
Hosea 2:5 ; 3:3