Jeremiah 7:10

And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things?

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In The King James Version

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?

In Context

9Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;

11Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.

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Cross References

2 Kings 21:4And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

2 Chronicles 33:7And he put the image he had made in the house of God, the house of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

Proverbs 15:8The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.

Isaiah 48:2For they say that they are of the holy town, and put their faith in the God of Israel: the Lord of armies is his name.

Jeremiah 7:11Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 7:30For the children of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes, says the Lord: they have put their disgusting images in the house which is named by my name, making it unclean.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 7:2-16

A Call of Repentance. ( b. c. 606.) 1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord , saying, 2 Stand in the gate of the Lord 's house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord , all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the Lord . 3 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place. 4 Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple of the Lord , The temple of the Lord , The temple of the Lord , are… Read the whole commentary →

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