Jeremiah 2:28

Webster's Bible (1833)

But where are your gods that you have made you? let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah.

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  • Jer 11:13 : 13 For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.
  • Deut 32:37 : 37 He will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;
  • Isa 45:20 : 20 Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations: they have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can't save.
  • Judg 10:14 : 14 Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress.
  • 2 Kgs 17:30-31 : 30 The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima, 31 and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
  • Isa 46:7 : 7 They bear it on the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands, from its place it shall not move: yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
  • Hos 10:1 : 1 Israel is a luxuriant vine that puts forth his fruit. According to the abundance of his fruit he has multiplied his altars. As their land has prospered, they have adorned their sacred stones.
  • 2 Kgs 3:13 : 13 Elisha said to the king of Israel, What have I to do with you? get you to the prophets of your father, and to the prophets of your mother. The king of Israel said to him, No; for Yahweh has called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.
  • Isa 46:2 : 2 They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

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  • Jer 2:27
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    27who tell a stock, You are my father; and to a stone, You have brought me forth: for they have turned their back to me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.

  • Jer 11:12-13
    2 verses
    80%

    12Then shall the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem go and cry to the gods to which they offer incense: but they will not save them at all in the time of their trouble.

    13For according to the number of your cities are your gods, Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have you set up altars to the shameful thing, even altars to burn incense to Baal.

  • Deut 32:37-38
    2 verses
    78%

    37He will say, Where are their gods, The rock in which they took refuge;

    38Which ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink-offering? Let them rise up and help you, Let them be your protection.

  • Jer 2:29
    77%

    29Why will you contend with me? you all have transgressed against me, says Yahweh.

  • Judg 10:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    13Yet you have forsaken me, and served other gods: therefore I will save you no more.

    14Go and cry to the gods which you have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress.

  • 2 Kgs 18:33-35
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    33Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

    34Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

    35Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

  • Jer 16:20
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    20Shall a man make to himself gods, which yet are no gods?

  • Isa 36:18-20
    3 verses
    74%

    18Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, Yahweh will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

    19Where are the gods of Hamath and Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

    20Who are they among all the gods of these countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

  • Deut 4:28
    73%

    28There you shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

  • Jer 2:11
    73%

    11Has a nation changed [its] gods, which yet are no gods? but my people have changed their glory for that which does not profit.

  • Isa 45:20
    73%

    20Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations: they have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can't save.

  • Isa 37:19
    73%

    19and have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.

  • Jer 1:16
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    16I will utter my judgments against them touching all their wickedness, in that they have forsaken me, and have burned incense to other gods, and worshiped the works of their own hands.

  • 2 Kgs 19:18
    72%

    18and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.

  • 2 Kgs 18:22
    72%

    22But if you tell me, We trust in Yahweh our God; isn't that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

  • Ps 115:2
    72%

    2Why should the nations say, "Where is their God, now?"

  • 2 Chr 32:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13Don't you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any wise able to deliver their land out of my hand?

    14Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?

  • Isa 36:7
    71%

    7But if you tell me, We trust in Yahweh our God: isn't that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar?

  • Hos 13:10
    71%

    10Where is your king now, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges, of whom you said, 'Give me a king and princes?'

  • 2 Chr 34:26
    70%

    26But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, thus shall you tell him, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: As touching the words which you have heard,

  • Deut 28:36
    70%

    36Yahweh will bring you, and your king whom you shall set over you, to a nation that you have not known, you nor your fathers; and there shall you serve other gods, wood and stone.

  • 2 Chr 29:8
    70%

    8Therefore the wrath of Yahweh was on Judah and Jerusalem, and he has delivered them to be tossed back and forth, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as you see with your eyes.

  • 2 Chr 32:19
    70%

    19They spoke of the God of Jerusalem, as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men's hands.

  • 2 Kgs 22:18
    70%

    18But to the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of Yahweh, thus shall you tell him, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel: As touching the words which you have heard,

  • Jer 2:5
    70%

    5thus says Yahweh, What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

  • 1 Kgs 12:28
    70%

    28Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: see your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

  • 2 Kgs 17:29
    70%

    29However every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities in which they lived.

  • Nah 1:14
    70%

    14Yahweh has commanded concerning you: "No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, will I cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile."

  • 2 Chr 7:22
    70%

    22They shall answer, Because they forsook Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshiped them, and served them: therefore has he brought all this evil on them.

  • Jer 44:8
    69%

    8in that you provoke me to anger with the works of your hands, burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you are gone to sojourn; that you may be cut off, and that you may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

  • 2 Chr 28:10
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    10Now you purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondservants and bondmaids to you: [but] aren't there even with you trespasses of your own against Yahweh your God?

  • Jer 10:11
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    11Thus shall you say to them, The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth, these shall perish from the earth, and from under the heavens.

  • Ps 97:7
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    7Let all them be shamed who serve engraved images, Who boast in their idols. Worship him, all you gods!

  • Isa 42:17
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    17They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly disappointed, who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, You are our gods.

  • Judg 18:24
    69%

    24He said, you have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and are gone away, and what have I more? and how then say you to me, What ails you?

  • 2 Chr 24:18
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    18They forsook the house of Yahweh, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherim and the idols: and wrath came on Judah and Jerusalem for this their guiltiness.

  • 2 Kgs 19:12
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    12Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar?

  • Isa 44:17
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    17The residue of it he makes a god, even his engraved image; he falls down to it and worships, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me; for you are my god.

  • Jer 7:17
    69%

    17Don't you see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

  • Jer 5:19
    69%

    19It shall happen, when you shall say, Why has Yahweh our God done all these things to us? then shall you say to them, Like as you have forsaken me, and served foreign gods in your land, so shall you serve strangers in a land that is not yours.