Cross references

Jeremiah 2:8

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 2:8 BSB

Jeremiah 2:8 has 30 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 6 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Habakkuk 2:18 (5 votes) and Jeremiah 5:31 (4 votes). 25 other verses point back to it. It links with 20 other books, from Leviticus 10 to 2 Timothy 2.

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Which verses does Jeremiah 2:8 point to?

The 20 strongest of 30, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.

  2. The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?

  3. For the shepherds have become senseless; they do not seek the LORD. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flock is scattered.

  4. Hosea 4:64 votes

    My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

  5. Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God; if you know His will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law; …

  6. Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

  7. For the LORD has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep. He has shut your eyes, O prophets; He has covered your heads, O seers.

  8. everyone will be put to shame because of a people useless to them. They bring neither help nor benefit, but only shame and disgrace.”

  9. Luke 11:523 votes

    Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”

  10. John 16:33 votes

    They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.

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

  12. They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’

  13. Has a nation ever changed its gods? (Yet they are not gods at all.) But My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols.

Which verses point to Jeremiah 2:8?

The 10 strongest of 25.