Jeremiah 26:6
I will make this house like Silo: and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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1 Samuel 4:10So the Philistines fought, and Israel was overthrown, and every man fled to his own dwelling: and there was an exceeding great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.
2 Kings 22:19And thy heart hath been moved to fear, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, hearing the words against this place, and the inhabitants thereof, to wit, that they should become a wonder and a curse: and thou hast rent thy garments, and wept before me, I also have heard thee, saith the Lord:
Isaiah 43:28And I have profaned the holy princes, I have given Jacob to slaughter, and Israel to reproach.
Jeremiah 7:12Go ye to my place in Silo, where my name dwelt from the beginning: and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel:
Jeremiah 25:18To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof: to make them a desolation, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a curse, as it is at this day.
Jeremiah 29:22And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Juda, that are in Babylon, saying: The Lord make thee like Sedecias, and like Achab, whom the king of Babylon fried in the fire :
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 26:2-7
Jeremiah's Solemn Address. ( b. c. 608.) 1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word from the Lord , saying, 2 Thus saith the Lord ; Stand in the court of the Lord 's house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the Lord 's house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word: 3 If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them… Read the whole commentary →