Jeremiah 23:11 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹¹For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 23:11 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Zephaniah 3:4
Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
Jeremiah 6:13
For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
Jeremiah 32:34
But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.
Matthew 21:12-13
And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, …
Ezekiel 23:39
For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house.

Topics

Dress Government High Priest Minister, Christian Officer Priest Worship

Commentary

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

(vv. 9-32)

Here is a long lesson for the false prophets. As none were more bitter and spiteful against God’s true prophets than they, so there were none on whom the true prophets were more severe, and justly. The prophet had complained to God of those false prophets (Jer. 14:13), and had often foretold that they should be involved in the common ruin; but here they have woes of their own. I. He expresses the…

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

(vv. 11)

11. profane--(Eze 23:39; Zep 3:4). in my house--(Jr 7:30). They built altars to idols in the very temple (2Ki 23:12; Eze 8:3-16). Compare as to covetousness under the roof of the sanctuary, Mt 21:13; Joh 2:16.