Jeremiah 23:10-14
23:10 a People everywhere engaged in adultery. They thought that the ritual sex of Baal worship would guarantee good crops, but instead it brought the curse of a crop-destroying drought upon the people of Judah.23:11 b Judah’s religious leaders had committed despicable acts, not just in their private lives and in the hills and fields where pagan worship occurred, but even in the Temple, in the presence of the Lord.
23:12 c As a result of their wickedness, these priests and prophets would have no stability in their lives; every moment would be filled with danger.
Summary for Jer 23:13-14: 23:13-14 d Samaria, the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, had been dominated by Baal worship supported by the government prophets (1 Kgs 18:19 e; see also Jer 16:12 f). The religious leaders of Judah were even worse.
• Sodom and Gomorrah represented the worst of this kind of wickedness (Gen 18:20 g).
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