Jeremiah 2:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,

Jeremiah 2:26 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezra 9:7
Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
Nehemiah 9:32-34
Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day. …
Jeremiah 32:32
Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
Proverbs 6:30-31
Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry; …
Jeremiah 3:24-25
For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. …

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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. 26)

26. is ashamed--is put to shame. thief--(Joh 10:1). Israel--that is, Judah (Jr 2:28).