Verse Lens · Context pointer
Jeremiah 17:2 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 2. 2Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills.
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Role in This Section
The prophetic word through Jeremiah states or reports “Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills” at Jeremiah 17:2 as a specific part of “Judah's Engraved Sin Reaches Altars and Land.”
Read It With
- Jeremiah 17:1–4
Read Jeremiah 17:2 with 17:1–4. By itself, “Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, date, imperial horizon, poetic movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: Iron engraving, heart tablets, remembered altars, forfeited inheritance, and foreign service summarize entrenched covenant breach.
Why It Needs Context
Keep the line with Jeremiah 17:1–4. The prophetic word through Jeremiah states or reports “Whilst their children remember their altars and their groves by the green trees upon the high hills” at Jeremiah 17:2 as a specific part of “Judah's Engraved Sin Reaches Altars and Land.” The literary form and this limit govern it: Heart imagery does not diagnose bodies or make wrongdoing biologically permanent; the rhetoric concerns durable practice.
Continue in Context
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Read Jeremiah 17:1–4 — Judah's Engraved Sin Reaches Altars and LandSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? probable
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Jeremiah 17:1–4, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Jeremiah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2; fixed commit
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a critical apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Jer.xml, OSIS 17:1–4
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