Jeremiah 9:14 “Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone…”

Jeremiah 9:14

Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

But have walked after the imagination of their own heart, and after Baalim, which their fathers taught them:

World English Bible

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”

American Standard Version

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baalim, which their fathers taught them;

Geneva Bible 1599

But haue walked after the stubbernesse of their owne heart, and after Baalims, which their fathers taught them,

Darby Translation

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart, and after the Baals, as their fathers taught them;

Young's Literal Translation

And they walk after the stubbornness of their heart, And after the Baalim, that their fathers taught them,

Bible in Basic English

But they have been walking in the pride of their hearts, going after the Baals, as their fathers gave them teaching.

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Cross references

“walked”

Jeremiah 3:17 Jeremiah 7:24 Romans 1:21–24 Ephesians 2:3 Genesis 6:5 Ephesians 4:17–19

Jeremiah 3:17 · BSB

At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations will be gathered in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. They will no longer follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.

Jeremiah 7:24 · BSB

Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.

Romans 1:21–24 · BSB

For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.

Ephesians 2:3 · BSB

All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.

Genesis 6:5 · BSB

Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.

Ephesians 4:17–19 · BSB

So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

“which”

Galatians 1:14 1 Peter 1:18 Jeremiah 44:17 Zechariah 1:4 Zechariah 1:5

Galatians 1:14 · BSB

I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

1 Peter 1:18 · BSB

For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,

Jeremiah 44:17 · BSB

Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the str…

Zechariah 1:4 · BSB

Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Turn now from your evil ways and deeds.’ But they did not listen or pay attention to Me, declares the LORD.

Zechariah 1:5 · BSB

Where are your fathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever?

Also

Jeremiah 2:8 Jeremiah 2:23

Jeremiah 2:8 · BSB

The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.

Jeremiah 2:23 · BSB

“How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,

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

In context

13And the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.

15Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.

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