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Jeremiah 5:7

King James Version (KJV)

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Jeremiah 5:7

Verse 7 of 31

Scripture focus

How shall I pardon thee for this? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by [them that are] no gods: when I had fed them to the full, they then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses.

Jeremiah 5:7 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Jeremiah 5:7

Theological / Devotional

Sworn. See Deut. 32:17, 21; Joshua 23:7; Zeph. 1:5; see on Jer. 2:11.

Committed adultery. Both spiritually and literally (see on Num. 25:1; Judges 2:17; 1 Kings 14:15; 2 Kings 9:22 ; 23:7). The association of immorality with the idolatrous cults makes the figure doubly apt.

By troops. They thronged the house of harlotry, the idol temples, the scenes of both spiritual and carnal adultery (see on 1 Kings 11:5).

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