Jeremiah 7:10

and then come and stand before me in my own Temple and say, “We're safe, so we can continue doing all these offensive 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

9Are you really going to continue stealing, murdering, committing adultery, and lying, burning incense to Baal, and worshiping other gods that you know nothing about,

11Do you see this house, my own Temple, as a den of thieves? Well, that's what it looks like to me too, declares the Lord.

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Cross References

2 Kings 21:4He set up pagan altars in the Lord's Temple, right where the Lord had said, “I will place my name in Jerusalem forever.”

2 Chronicles 33:7He took a pagan idol he had made and set it up in God's Temple, about which God had told David and his son Solomon, “I will be honored forever in this Temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel.

Proverbs 15:8The Lord hates the sacrifices of the wicked, but he loves the prayers of the good.

Isaiah 48:2You say you're from the “Holy City,” and claim you're trusting in the God of Israel, whose name is the Lord Almighty.

Jeremiah 7:11Do you see this house, my own Temple, as a den of thieves? Well, that's what it looks like to me too, declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 7:30For the people of Judah have done what is evil in my sight, declares the Lord. They have placed their offensive idols in my own Temple, 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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