Jeremiah 7:9 “Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense t…”

Jeremiah 7:9

Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;

World English Bible

Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

American Standard Version

Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods that ye have not known,

Geneva Bible 1599

Will you steale, murder, and commit adulterie, and sweare falsely and burne incense vnto Baal, and walke after other gods whome yee knowe not?

Darby Translation

What? steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not...

Young's Literal Translation

Stealing, murdering, and committing adultery, And swearing to falsehood, and giving perfume to Baal, And going after other gods whom ye knew not.

Bible in Basic English

Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;

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Cross references

“steal”

James 4:1–4 Romans 2:2 Galatians 5:19–21 Revelation 22:15 Jeremiah 9:2–9 Psalm 50:16–21

James 4:1–4 · BSB

What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?

Romans 2:2 · BSB

And we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth.

Galatians 5:19–21 · BSB

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;

Revelation 22:15 · BSB

But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Jeremiah 9:2–9 · BSB

If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.

Psalm 50:16–21 · BSB

To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?

“and burn”

Jeremiah 11:13 Jeremiah 11:17 1 Kings 18:21 Jeremiah 32:29

Jeremiah 11:13 · BSB

Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up—the altars to burn incense to Baal—are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’

Jeremiah 11:17 · BSB

The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you on account of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have brought upon themselves, provoking Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.”

1 Kings 18:21 · BSB

Then Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him. But if Baal is God, follow him.” But the people did not answer a word.

Jeremiah 32:29 · BSB

And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come in, set it on fire, and burn it, along with the houses of those who provoked Me to anger by burning incense to Baal on their rooftops and by pouring out drin…

“and walk”

Jeremiah 7:6 Exodus 20:3 Jeremiah 13:10 Jeremiah 44:3 Deuteronomy 32:17 Judges 5:8

Jeremiah 7:6 · BSB

if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,

Exodus 20:3 · BSB

You shall have no other gods before Me.

Jeremiah 13:10 · BSB

These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this loincloth—of no use at all.

Jeremiah 44:3 · BSB

because of the evil they have done. They provoked Me to anger by continuing to burn incense and to serve other gods that neither they nor you nor your fathers ever knew.

Deuteronomy 32:17 · BSB

They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.

Judges 5:8 · BSB

When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.

10and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?

Read Jeremiah 7