Jeremiah 2:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²²For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.

Jeremiah 2:22 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 17:1
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
Job 14:17
My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.
Hosea 13:12
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
Jeremiah 16:17
For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
Psalms 130:3
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 20-28)

In these verses the prophet goes on with his charge against this backsliding people. Observe here, I. The sin itself that he charges them with—idolatry, that great provocation which they were so notoriously guilty of. 1. They frequented the places of idol-worship (Jer. 2:20): “ Upon every high hill and under every green tree, in the high places and the groves, such as the heathen had a foolish fon…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 22)

22. nitre--not what is now so called, namely, saltpeter; but the natron of Egypt, a mineral alkali, an incrustation at the bottom of the lakes, after the summer heat has evaporated the water: used for washing (compare Job 9:30; Pr 25:20). soap--potash, the carbonate of which is obtained impure from burning different plants, especially the kali of Egypt and Arabia. Mixed with oil it was used for wa…