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Jeremiah 17:2

King James Version (KJV)

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— D.L. Moody

Scripture focus

Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.

Jeremiah 17:2 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Jeremiah 17:2

Theological / Devotional

Whilst their children remember. Brought up in an environment of idolatry, the children would be inclined to adopt the same wicked course.

Groves. Heb. ’asherim. Asherah was the name of a Canaanite goddess, worshiped with licentious rites, whose symbol was a tree or wooden post (see on Judges 3:7; see Vol. II, p. 39).

Green trees. While the Asherah was not a grove of trees, the shrine of this heathen goddess was generally connected with one, just as the “high hills” were associated with heathen altars (see Deut. 12:2, 3; Isa. 57:7).

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