Cross references

Jeremiah 2:7

I brought you into a fertile land

to eat its fruit and bounty,

but you came and defiled My land

and made My inheritance detestable.

Jeremiah 2:7 BSB

Jeremiah 2:7 has 18 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Deuteronomy 8:7–9 (10 votes) and Jeremiah 16:18 (8 votes). 16 other verses point back to it. It links with 12 other books, from Exodus 3 to Malachi 2.

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Which verses does Jeremiah 2:7 point to?

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

  1. For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills; a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive oil and honey; …

  2. And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and they have filled My inheritance with their abominations.”

  3. And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!

  4. “Son of man, when the people of Israel lived in their land, they defiled it by their own ways and deeds. Their behavior before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman’s impurity.

  5. They shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood. They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

  6. “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.

  7. Indifferent to her own infidelity, Israel had defiled the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.

  8. Do not defile yourselves by any of these practices, for by all these things the nations I am driving out before you have defiled themselves. Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants. …

  9. and said to the whole congregation of Israel, “The land we passed through and explored is an exceedingly good land. If the LORD delights in us, He will bring us into this land, a land flowing with milk and honey, and He will give it to us.

  10. Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it. Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell. For I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.”

  11. Micah 2:102 votes

Which verses point to Jeremiah 2:7?

The 10 strongest of 16.