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Jeremiah 11:10

in Jeremiah 11

They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, who refused to hear my words; and they are gone after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

KJV

They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers, which refused to hear my words; and they went after other gods to serve them: the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant which I made with their fathers.

This verse in Jeremiah 11

Commentary

8 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah · Written before 420.

(Vers. 9, 10) And the Lord said to me: A conspiracy has been found among the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem have turned back to the iniquities of their former fathers, who refused to listen to my words. And so they went after foreign gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken my covenant, which I made with their fathers. As for the conspiracy, which we have interpreted according to Symmachus, Aquila, and the Septuagint, Theodotion has translated it as 'connection,' which we can also call 'binding.'

This site's exposition

There is a conspiracy among the men of Judah

on Jeremiah 11:9-10

The word “conspiracy” names the covenant breach as a deliberate plot. Verse 10 states its breadth, “The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant”, north and south joined in one indictment. The fathers here are the wilderness generation “who refused to obey My words”.

This site's exposition

They have returned to the sins

Adam Clarke sets the verse after Josiah's reform. Under his sons the public idols came back, and Judah returned to the sins of the fathers. John Gill notes that Kimchi dates this word to the days of Jehoiakim.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Origen of Alexandria

HOMILIES ON JEREMIAH 9 · Written before 253.

"A conspiracy," then, "has been found among the men of Judah and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem. They have turned back to the injustices of their fathers of former times." "They have turned back to the injustices"—of whom? He does not say simply "of the fathers." What is the addition? "They have turned back to the injustices of their fathers of former times." We were saying that these things are spoken to us and to those among us who sin.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers,.... According to Kimchi, this prophecy was delivered out in the times of Jehoiakim.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Jeremiah himself saw that many lived in open disobedience to God, but the Lord told him that the matter was worse than he thought of: A conspiracy is found among them, by him whose eye is upon the hidden works of darkness.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

They are turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers - A great reformation had taken place under the reign of Josiah, and the public worship of idols had been abolished, and most of the high places destroyed; but under the reign of his son and his successors, they had turned back again to idolatry, and were become worse than ever. It required a captivity to cure them of this propensity: and God sent one: after that, there was no idolatry among the Jews.
Their forefathers - literally, “their fathers, the first ones:” in allusion to the idolatries committed in the wilderness, and by the generations whose history is given in the Book of Judges. And they went after - Rather, yea! they have walked “after other gods to serve them.” The “they” refers to the men of Jeremiah’s day.

The words behind it

27 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • שָׁ֩בוּ֩they have returned

    shavuH7725 →1056 times

  • עַל־to

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • עֲוֹנֹ֨ת[the] iniquities of

    ʾavonotH5771 →233 times

  • אֲבוֹתָ֜םancestors their

    ʾavotamH1 →1212 times

  • הָרִֽאשֹׁנִ֗ים<the> former

    harishonimH7223 →182 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֤רwho

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • מֵֽאֲנוּ֙they refused

    meanuH3985 →41 times

  • לִשְׁמ֣וֹעַto hear

    lishmoa'H8085 →1159 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • דְּבָרַ֔יwords my

    devaraiH1697 →1440 times

  • וְהֵ֣מָּהand they

    vehemahH1992 →553 times

  • הָלְכ֗וּthey have walked

    halekhuH1980 →1546 times

  • אַחֲרֵ֛יafter

    ʾachareiH310 →715 times

  • אֱלֹהִ֥יםgods

    ʾelohimH430 →2601 times

  • אֲחֵרִ֖יםother

    ʾacherimH312 →166 times

  • לְעָבְדָ֑םto serve them

    leavedamH5647 →288 times

  • הֵפֵ֤רוּthey have broken

    heferuH6565 →50 times

  • בֵֽית־[the] house of

    veit-H1004 →2046 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵל֙Israel

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • וּבֵ֣יתand [the] house of

    uveitH1004 →2046 times

  • יְהוּדָ֔הJudah

    yehudahH3063 →819 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • בְּרִיתִ֕יcovenant my

    beritiH1285 →284 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • כָּרַ֖תִּיI made

    karatiH3772 →288 times

  • אֶת־with

    ʾet-H854 →929 times

  • אֲבוֹתָֽם׃ סancestors their

    ʾavotamH1 →1212 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 31:16

    And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will…

    it leads to

    • Judges 10:6

      And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus…

    • Judges 10:13

      But you have forsaken Me and served other gods, so I will no longer save you.

    • Judges 2:12

      Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down…

    • Exodus 34:15

      Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.

    • Revelation 19:2

      For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her…

  • Through

    Judges 2:19

    But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices…

    it leads to

    • Judges 8:33

      And as soon as Gideon was dead, the Israelites turned and prostituted themselves with the Baals, and they set up Baal-berith as their god.

    • Judges 4:1

      After Ehud died, the Israelites again did evil in the sight of the LORD.

    • 2 Chronicles 24:17–18

      After the death of Jehoiada, however, the officials of Judah came and paid homage to the king, and he listened to them.

Where this verse is studied

About Jeremiah

Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Origen of Alexandria, HOMILIES ON JEREMIAH 9.