Jeremiah 11 in the early church
[Vulgate: Jeremias]
91 passages quote, allude to, or echo Jeremiah 11, grouped by verse; passages on the same verse are in date order. Verse text from the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). References use the Protestant English Bible's numbering, with a writer's own numbering in brackets where it differs.
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Jeremiah 11:1
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jer 11:1 | Homilies on Jeremiah 9, title · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240 |
| Jer 11:1 | Homilies on Jeremiah 9.1 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240 |
| Jer 11:1–3 | Commentary on Jeremiah 2.97 · Jerome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 414-419 |
Jeremiah 11:2
“Listen to the words of this covenant and tell them to the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jer 11:2 | Homilies on Jeremiah 9, title · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240 |
| Jer 11:2 | Homilies on Jeremiah 9.1 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240 |
| Jer 11:2 | Homilies on Jeremiah 9.2 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240 |
Jeremiah 11:3
You must tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jer 11:3 | Homilies on Jeremiah 9.2 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240 |
| Jer 11:3 | Homilies on Jeremiah 9.4 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240 |
| Jer 11:3–6 | Commentary on Jeremiah 2.99 · Jerome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 414-419 |
Jeremiah 11:4
which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.’
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jer 11:4 | Homilies on Jeremiah 9.2 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240 |
| Jer 11:4 | Homilies on Jeremiah 9.3 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240 |
| Jer 11:4 | Exposition of Psalm 118 20.11.1 · Ambrose | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 386-397 |
Jeremiah 11:5
This was in order to establish the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is to this day.” “Amen, LORD,” I answered.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jer 11:5 | Homilies on Jeremiah 9.3 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240 |
| Jer 11:5 | Homilies on Jeremiah 9.4 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240 |
Jeremiah 11:6
Then the LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear the words of this covenant and carry them out.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jer 11:6 | Homilies on Jeremiah 9.4 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240 |
Jeremiah 11:7
For from the time I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, I strongly warned them again and again, saying, ‘Obey My voice.’
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jer 11:7–12 | Commentary on Jeremiah 2.103 · Jerome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 414-419 |
Jeremiah 11:8
Yet 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.”
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jer 11:8 | Homilies on Jeremiah 9.4 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240 |
Jeremiah 11:9
And the LORD told me, “There is a conspiracy among the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jer 11:9 | Homilies on Jeremiah 9.4 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240 |
Jeremiah 11:10
They 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.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jer 11:10 | Homilies on Jeremiah 9, title · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240 |
| Jer 11:10 | Homilies on Jeremiah 9.4 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240 |
| Jer 11:10 | Demonstration 12.11 · Aphrahat | quotation, high confidence | 337-345 |
Jeremiah 11:11
Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jer 11:11 | Against Marcion 2.24 · Tertullian | quotation, medium confidence | 207/208 (third edition, completed later) |
| Jer 11:11 | The Conferences 6.6 · John Cassian | quotation, high confidence | ca. 426–429 |
Jeremiah 11:13
Your 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.’
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jer 11:13 | The Instructor 1.9.76 · Clement of Alexandria | quotation, medium confidence | ca. 190–200 |
| Jer 11:13 | Preparation for the Gospel 9.39.2 · Eusebius of Caesarea | echo, medium confidence | ca. 313–324 |
| Jer 11:13 | Commentary on Jeremiah 1.38 · Jerome | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 414-419 |
| Jer 11:13 | Commentary on Jeremiah 2.106 · Jerome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 414-419 |
Jeremiah 11:14
As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jer 11:14 | On Modesty 2 · Tertullian | quotation, high confidence | ca. 210–220 |
| Jer 11:14 | On the Lapsed 19 · Cyprian of Carthage | quotation, high confidence | 251 |
| Jer 11:14 | To Fortunatus 4 · Cyprian of Carthage | quotation, high confidence | 253 or 257 |
| Jer 11:14 | Commentary on Jeremiah 2.107 · Jerome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 414-419 |
Jeremiah 11:15
What right has My beloved in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your doom? When you are wicked, then you rejoice.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jer 11:15 | Against Heresies 4.17.3 · Irenaeus of Lyons | quotation, medium confidence | ca. 180–190 |
| Jer 11:15 | Homilies on the Psalms 28.1 · Basil of Caesarea | quotation, high confidence | ca. 360-378 |
| Jer 11:15–16 | Commentary on Jeremiah 2.108 · Jerome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 414-419 |
Jeremiah 11:16
The LORD once called you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. But with a mighty roar He will set it on fire, and its branches will be consumed.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jer 11:16 | Demonstration of the Gospel 6.18.18 · Eusebius of Caesarea | quotation, high confidence | ca. 314–324 |
Jeremiah 11:17
The 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.”
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jer 11:17 | Commentary on Jeremiah 2.109 · Jerome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 414-419 |
Jeremiah 11:18
And the LORD informed me, so I knew. Then You showed me their deeds.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jer 11:18 | Homilies on Jeremiah 10, title · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240 |
| Jer 11:18 | Homilies on Jeremiah 10.1 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240 |
| Jer 11:18–19 | To Quirinus 2.15 · Cyprian of Carthage | quotation, high confidence | ca. 248–250 (book 3 perhaps later) |
| Jer 11:18 | Prophetic Extracts 3.33 · Eusebius of Caesarea | quotation, high confidence | before 325 (probably ca. 310–320) |
| Jer 11:18 | Divine Institutes 4.18.27 · Lactantius | quotation, high confidence | ca. 303–311 |
| Jer 11:18 | On the Christian Faith 4.12 · Ambrose | quotation, high confidence | ca. 378–380 |
| Jer 11:18 | Exposition of Psalm 118 16.35.1 · Ambrose | quotation, high confidence | ca. 386-397 |
| Jer 11:18–20 | Commentary on Jeremiah 2.110 · Jerome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 414-419 |
Jeremiah 11:19
For I was like a gentle lamb led to slaughter; I did not know that they had plotted against me: “Let us destroy the tree with its fruit; let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be remembered no more.”
Jeremiah 11:20
O LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, who examines the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jer 11:20 | On Prayer 8.2 · Origen | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 233–234 |
| Jer 11:20 | Homilies on Jeremiah 10.4 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240 |
| Jer 11:20 | Letter 1.3 · Jerome | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 370–419 |
| Jer 11:20 | On the Making of Man 12 · Gregory of Nyssa | allusion, low confidence | 379 |
| Jer 11:20 | On the Lord's Prayer 1129 · Gregory of Nyssa | allusion, high confidence | ca. 380–394 |
Jeremiah 11:21
Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the people of Anathoth who are seeking your life and saying, “You must not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by our hand.”
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jer 11:21 | Homily on Luke 33 · Origen | allusion, medium confidence | ca. 233–250 |
| Jer 11:21 | Homilies on Jeremiah 10.4 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240 |
| Jer 11:21–23 | Commentary on Jeremiah 2.111 · Jerome | quotation, high confidence | ca. 414-419 |
Jeremiah 11:22
So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jer 11:22 | Homilies on Jeremiah 10.4 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240 |
Jeremiah 11:23
There will be no remnant, for I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.”
| Reference | Passage | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jer 11:23 | Homilies on Jeremiah 10.4 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240 |
| Jer 11:23 | Homilies on Jeremiah 10.5 · Origen | quotation, high confidence | ca. 240 |