Jeremiah 7:11

Do 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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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

10and then come and stand before me in my own Temple and say, “We're safe, so we can continue doing all these offensive things”?

12So why don't you go to Shiloh where I first made myself a place for me to live with you, and see what I did to it because of the evil my people Israel did?

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Cross References

Isaiah 1:12When you come to appear before me in worship, who asked you to proudly tramp around my courts?

Jeremiah 2:34On top of that, your clothes are stained with the blood of the poor and the innocent. It's not like you killed them breaking into your homes. Despite all this,

Jeremiah 16:17I see everything they're doing. They can't hide from me, and their sins aren't hidden from me either.

Jeremiah 29:23They did outrageous things in Israel—they committed adultery with their neighbors' wives and told lies in my name. I didn't tell them to say anything. I am the one who knows what they did, and I can witness to it, declares the Lord.

Matthew 21:13He told them, “Scripture says, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you've turned it into a den of thieves.”

Luke 19:45Jesus entered the Temple and began driving out all the people trading there.

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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