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Jeremiah 23:14

King James Version (KJV)

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Jeremiah 23:14

Verse 14 of 40

Scripture focus

I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 23:14 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Jeremiah 23:14

Theological / Devotional

An horrible thing. The hypocritical boldness of the false prophets that led them to prophesy in the Lord’s name while they transgressed the Lord’s commandments was more “horrible” to Jeremiah than even the open worship of Baal. Because of the very nature of the sin of hypocrisy, there is more hope for the open sinner than for hypocrites (see 5T 144).

As Sodom. So wicked had these spiritual leaders become that, like Isaiah, Jeremiah likens them to “the inhabitants” of the cities of the plain (see Isa. 1:10).

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