Jeremiah 2:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit.

And they that

The pastors

Jeremiah 10:21

Jeremiah 12:10

Jeremiah 23:1

Do not

General references

Leviticus 10:11

Bible References

And they that

“How can you say, ‘We are wise,
And the law of the Lord is with us’?
But behold, the lying pen of the scribes
Has made it into a lie.

“They shall teach Your ordinances to Jacob,
And Your law to Israel.

They shall put incense before You,

And whole burnt offerings on Your altar.

True instruction was in his mouth and unrighteousness was not found on his lips; he walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and he turned many back from iniquity.

Woe to you

lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge; you yourselves did not enter, and you hindered those who were entering.”

and you have not come to know Him, but I know Him; and if I say that I do not know Him, I will be a liar like you, but I do know Him and keep His word.

These things they will do because they have not known the Father or Me.

But if you bear the name “Jew” and rely upon the Law and boast in God,

but we have renounced the things hidden because of shame, not walking in craftiness or adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

The pastors

For the shepherds have become stupid
And have not sought the Lord;
Therefore they have not prospered,
And all their flock is scattered.

“Many shepherds have ruined My vineyard,
They have trampled down My field;
They have made My pleasant field
A desolate wilderness.

“Woe to the shepherds who are destroying and scattering the sheep of My pasture!” declares the Lord.

Do not

“Has a nation changed gods
When they were not gods?
But My people have changed their glory
For that which does not profit.

“Behold, you are trusting in deceptive words to no avail.

You must not turn aside, for then you would go after futile things which can not profit or deliver, because they are futile.

“Everyone will be ashamed because of a people who cannot profit them,
Who are not for help or profit, but for shame and also for reproach.”

“What profit is the idol when its maker has carved it,
Or an image, a teacher of falsehood?
For its maker trusts in his own handiwork
When he fashions speechless idols.

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

General references

and so as to teach the sons of Israel all the statutes which the Lord has spoken to them through Moses.”