Jeremiah 7:14

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Summary

Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

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General references

Psalm 78:60

Matthew 23:38

Bible References

Wherein

Do not trust in deceptive words, saying, ‘This is the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord.’

It shall besiege you in all your towns until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout your land, and it shall besiege you in all your towns throughout your land which the Lord your God has given you.

Her leaders pronounce judgment for a bribe,
Her priests instruct for a price
And her prophets divine for money.
Yet they lean on the Lord saying,
“Is not the Lord in our midst?
Calamity will not come upon us.”

They put forward false witnesses who said, “This man incessantly speaks against this holy place and the Law;

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then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city I will make a curse to all the nations of the earth.”’”

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

So the Philistines fought and Israel was defeated, and every man fled to his tent; and the slaughter was very great, for there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers.

then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have consecrated for My name, I will cast out of My sight. So Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

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.

As for this house, which was exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

All the articles of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king and of his officers, he brought them all to Babylon.

And now all its carved work
They smash with hatchet and hammers.

So that He abandoned the dwelling place at Shiloh,
The tent which He had pitched among men,

Our holy and beautiful house,
Where our fathers praised You,
Has been burned by fire;
And all our precious things have become a ruin.

The Lord has rejected His altar,
He has abandoned His sanctuary;
He has delivered into the hand of the enemy
The walls of her palaces.
They have made a noise in the house of the Lord
As in the day of an appointed feast.

How dark the gold has become,
How the pure gold has changed!
The sacred stones are poured out
At the corner of every street.

They transformed the beauty of His ornaments into pride, and they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things with it; therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing to them.

But to the others He said in my hearing, “Go through the city after him and strike; do not let your eye have pity and do not spare.

‘Speak to the house of Israel, “Thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I am about to profane My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes and the delight of your soul; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.

Therefore, on account of you

Zion will be plowed as a field,

Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins,

And the mountain of the temple will become high places of a forest.

Jesus came out from the temple and was going away when His disciples came up to point out the temple buildings to Him.

General references

So that He abandoned the dwelling place at Shiloh,
The tent which He had pitched among men,

Behold, your house is being left to you desolate!