Jeremiah 41:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.

Came

2 Kings 10:13

Shechem

1 Kings 12:1

Shiloh

Jeremiah 7:12

Joshua 18:1

Samaria

1 Kings 16:24

Their beards

To the

1 Samuel 1:7

2 Kings 25:9

Psalm 102:14

Bible References

Came

Jehu met the relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and said, “Who are you?” And they answered, “We are the relatives of Ahaziah; and we have come down to greet the sons of the king and the sons of the queen mother.”

Shechem

Now Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram, and camped before the city.

When Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.

Now they buried the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel brought up from Egypt, at Shechem, in the piece of ground which Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for one hundred pieces of money; and they became the inheritance of Joseph’s sons.

And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s relatives, and spoke to them and to the whole clan of the household of his mother’s father, saying,

Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel had come to Shechem to make him king.

Shiloh

“But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I made My name dwell at the first, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.

Then the whole congregation of the sons of Israel assembled themselves at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there; and the land was subdued before them.

Samaria

He bought the hill Samaria from Shemer for two talents of silver; and he built on the hill, and named the city which he built

Samaria, after the name of Shemer, the owner of the hill.

Their beards

You shall not round off the side-growth of your heads nor harm the edges of your beard.

“You are the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves nor shave your forehead for the sake of the dead.

So Hanun took David’s servants and shaved off half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle as far as their hips, and sent them away.

They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, even to the high places to weep.
Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba;
Everyone’s head is bald and every beard is cut off.

To the

It happened year after year, as often as she went up to the house of the Lord, she would provoke her; so she wept and would not eat.

He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire.

Surely Your servants find pleasure in her stones
And feel pity for her dust.