Jeremiah 11:13

Lexham English Bible

Contextual Overview

¹¹ Therefore thus says Yahweh, "I am about to bring on them disaster from which they will not be able to escape. Though they cry out to me, yet I will not listen to them. ¹² Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry out to the gods to whom they are making smoke offerings, but they will certainly not save them in the time of their trouble. ¹³ For the number of your towns are your gods, O Judah, and the number of the streets of Jerusalem are the altars you have set up to the shameful things, to make smoke offerings to Baal. ¹⁴ Therefore you must not pray for this people, and you must not lift up for them a cry of entreaty, or a prayer, for I will not listen in the time of their calling to me, in the time of their trouble. ¹⁵ What rights has my beloved in my house when she has done many wicked things? Can the flesh of holiness pass over you? For you engage in your wickedness, then you exult. ¹⁶ Yahweh called your name, ‘A leafy olive tree, beautiful with fine fruit.' With the sound of a great storm he will set fire to it, and its branches will be good for nothing. ¹⁷ And Yahweh of hosts, the one who planted you, has spoken evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and the house of Judah, that they have done to themselves, to provoke me to anger by making smoke offerings to Baal."

Bible Verse Review
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For according: Jeremiah 2:28, Jeremiah 3:1, Jeremiah 3:2, Deuteronomy 32:16, Deuteronomy 32:17, 2 Kings 23:4, 2 Kings 23:5, 2 Kings 23:13, Isaiah 2:8, Hosea 12:11

up altars: Jeremiah 19:5, Jeremiah 32:35, 2 Kings 21:4, 2 Kings 21:5

shameful thing: Heb. shame

Reciprocal: Judges 6:32 - Jerubbaal Jeremiah 3:24 - General Jeremiah 7:9 - and burn Jeremiah 19:4 - burned Jeremiah 30:15 - for the Jeremiah 44:21 - and in Hosea 2:5 - hath done Hosea 2:13 - she burned Hosea 9:10 - separated 1 Corinthians 8:5 - that

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah,.... :-,

and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem; of which there were many, and some of note i:

have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal; one of whose names is Bosheth, "shame"; see Hosea 9:10, hence Jerubbaal is called, in 2 Samuel 11:21, Jerubbesheth; very properly is this name given to Baal, not only because the worship of him was to the reproach of the true God, but brought shame and confusion in the issue to its worshipper; as well as because shameful things were done in the worship of it, especially of Baalpeor; who seems to be the same with the Priapus of other nations.

i Vid. Lightfoot, Chorograph. Cent. ad Matt. p. 34.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That shameful thing - i. e., Baal; public establishment of idolatry, such as actually took place in the reign of Manasseh (2 Chronicles 33:3. Contrast 2 Kings 18:4).