Jeremiah 7:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

Come

Which is called, etc

2 Chronicles 33:4

General references

Matthew 23:38

Bible References

Come

Sacrifices of peace-offerings are with me; This day have I paid my vows.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to Jehovah; But the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Hear the word of Jehovah, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.

(for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; Jehovah of hosts is his name):

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways: as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near unto God.

As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Go ye, serve every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not hearken unto me; but my holy name shall ye no more profane with your gifts, and with your idols.

and they shall deal with thee in hatred, and shall take away all thy labor, and shall leave thee naked and bare; and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be uncovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but do them not; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their gain.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows houses, even while for a pretence ye make long prayers: therefore ye shall receive greater condemnation.

I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled: He that eateth my bread lifted up his heel against me.

They lead Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium: and it was early; and they themselves entered not into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the passover.

Which is called, etc

Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, saith Jehovah.

But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

And ye were now turned, and had done that which is right in mine eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:

And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, whereof Jehovah said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, whereof Jehovah said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

General references

Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.