Cross references

Jeremiah 2:5

This is what the LORD says:

“What fault did your fathers find in Me

that they strayed so far from Me?

They followed worthless idols,

and became worthless themselves.

Jeremiah 2:5 BSB

Jeremiah 2:5 has 20 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 10 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 2 Kings 17:15 (8 votes) and Romans 1:21 (7 votes). 32 other verses point back to it. It links with 21 other books, from Genesis 4 to Revelation 2.

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Which verses does Jeremiah 2:5 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. They rejected His statutes and the covenant He had made with their fathers, as well as the decrees He had given them. They pursued worthless idols and became worthless themselves, going after the surrounding nations that the LORD had commanded them not to imitate.

  2. 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.

  3. Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them. They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

  4. Jonah 2:86 votes

    Those who cling to worthless idols forsake His loving devotion.

  5. Those who make them become like them, as do all who trust in them.

  6. They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.

  7. Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.

  8. All makers of idols are nothing, and the things they treasure are worthless. Their witnesses fail to see or comprehend, so they are put to shame.

  9. Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them. They are worthless, a work to be mocked. In the time of their punishment they will perish.

  10. Acts 14:154 votes

    “Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.

  11. You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?

  12. But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!

Which verses point to Jeremiah 2:5?

The 10 strongest of 32.