Jeremiah 8:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

Jeremiah 8:10 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 6:12-13
And their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields and wives together: for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD. …
Ezekiel 33:31
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
Isaiah 28:7
But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
Jeremiah 23:11-17
For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD. …
Ezekiel 22:27-28
Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. …

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Avarice Backsliders Call Church Congregation Converts Covetousness

Commentary

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

(vv. 4-12)

The prophet here is instructed to set before this people the folly of their impenitence, which was it that brought this ruin upon them. They are here represented as the most stupid senseless people in the world, that would not be made wise by all the methods that Infinite Wisdom took to bring them to themselves and their right mind, and so to prevent the ruin that was coming upon them. I. They wou…

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

(vv. 10)

10-12. Repeated from Jr 6:12-15. See a similar repetition, Jr 8:15; Jr 14:19. inherit--succeed to the possession of them.