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Jer 17:1 — The sin of Judah [is] written with a pen of iron, [and] with the point of a diamond: [it is] graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

written		Job 19:23,24
point		Heb. nail
graven		Pro 3:3; Pro 7:3; 2Cr 3:3
and upon		Lev 4:17,18,25; Hsa 12:11

Correlating Passages

written

	Job 19:23	Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
	Job 19:24	That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!

graven

	Pro 3:3	Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
	Pro 7:3	Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
	2Cr 3:3	[Forasmuch as ye are] manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

and upon

	Lev 4:17	And the priest shall dip his finger [in some] of the blood, and sprinkle [it] seven times before the LORD, [even] before the vail.
	Lev 4:18	And he shall put [some] of the blood upon the horns of the altar which [is] before the LORD, that [is] in the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall pour out all the blood at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which [is at] the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
	Lev 4:25	And the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering with his finger, and put [it] upon the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and shall pour out his blood at the bottom of the altar of burnt offering.
	Hsa 12:11	[Is there] iniquity [in] Gilead? surely they are vanity: they sacrifice bullocks in Gilgal; yea, their altars [are] as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

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Scott, Thomas. "Jeremiah 17:1," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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