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

I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear to 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; The LORD 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 the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

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

And they shall treat thee with hatred, and shall take away all thy labor, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy prostitutions shall be disclosed, both thy lewdness and thy prostitutions.

And they come to thee as the people come, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

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

Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment-hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they 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, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.

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

And ye had now turned, and had done right in my sight, 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 the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

Also he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

General references

Behold, your house is left to you desolate.