Jeremiah 44:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“But they did not listen or incline their ears; they did not turn from their wickedness or stop burning incense to other gods.”
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“But they did not listen or incline their ears; they did not turn from their wickedness or stop burning incense to other gods.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.”
King James Version · Public Domain“But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and they have not hearkened nor inclined their ear, to turn back from their wickedness, not to make perfume to other gods,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Jeremiah 44:5 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Chronicles 36:16But they mocked the messengers of God, despising His words and scoffing at His prophets, until the wrath of the LORD against His people was stirred up beyond remedy.
- Nehemiah 9:30You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit admonished them through Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.
- Psalms 81:11But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.
- Isaiah 48:4For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
- Isaiah 48:18If only you had paid attention to My commandments, your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like waves of the sea.
- Jeremiah 7:24Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
- Jeremiah 11:8Yet they would not obey or incline their ears, but each one followed the stubbornness of his evil heart. So I brought on them all the curses of this covenant I had commanded them to follow but they did not keep.”
- Jeremiah 11:10They have returned to the sins of their forefathers who refused to obey My words. They have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken the covenant I made with their fathers.
- Jeremiah 11:13Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up—the altars to burn incense to Baal—are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’
- Jeremiah 11:17The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you on account of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have brought upon themselves, provoking Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.”
- Jeremiah 19:13The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be defiled like that place, Topheth—all the houses on whose rooftops they burned incense to all the host of heaven and poured out drink offerings to other gods.”
- Jeremiah 44:17Instead, we will do everything we vowed to do: We will burn incense to the Queen of Heaven and offer drink offerings to her, just as we, our fathers, our kings, and our officials did in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. At that time we had plenty of food and good things, and we saw no disaster.
- Hosea 11:2But the more I called Israel, the farther they departed from Me. They sacrificed to the Baals and burned incense to carved images.
- Zechariah 7:11But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
- Revelation 2:21Even though I have given her time to repent of her immorality, she is unwilling.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).