ESV Reformation Study Bible – Jer 2:7
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Jer 2:7

2:7 defiled my land . . . my heritage. See Deut. 21:23. God’s holy people (Deut. 7:6) dwell in the land He gave them for a heritage. The land can be defiled, or in religious terms be made “unclean,” by sin, because it remains God’s possession. See Lev. 25:23.