Cross references

Jeremiah 3:2

“Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see.

Is there any place where you have not been violated?

You sat beside the highways waiting for your lovers,

like a nomad in the desert.

You have defiled the land

with your prostitution and wickedness.

Jeremiah 3:2 BSB

Jeremiah 3:2 has 18 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 38:14 (4 votes) and Jeremiah 2:7 (4 votes). 37 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Genesis 38 to Acts 2.

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Which verses does Jeremiah 3:2 point to?

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

  1. she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.

  2. 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.

  3. “For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.

  4. And there I saw the glory of the God of Israel, like the vision I had seen in the plain. “Son of man,” He said to me, “now lift up your eyes to the north.” So I lifted up my eyes to the north, and in the entrance north of the Altar Gate I saw this idol of jealousy. …

  5. you built yourself a mound and made yourself a lofty shrine in every public square. At the head of every street you built your lofty shrines and degraded your beauty. With increasing promiscuity, you spread your legs to all who passed by.

  6. Destroy completely all the places where the nations you are dispossessing have served their gods—atop the high mountains, on the hills, and under every green tree.

  7. “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.

  8. He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines—and his wives turned his heart away.

  9. The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

  10. She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home.

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

  12. A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.

  13. You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and on them you prostituted yourself. Such things should not have happened; never should they have occurred!

  14. Luke 16:232 votes
  15. When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up their fragrant incense, and poured out their drink offerings.

Which verses point to Jeremiah 3:2?

The 10 strongest of 37.