Jeremiah 7:10

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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?

Come

Which is called, etc

2 Chronicles 33:4

General references

Matthew 23:38

Bible References

Come

“I was due to offer peace offerings;
Today I have paid my vows.

The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
But the prayer of the upright is His delight.

Hear the word of the Lord,
You rulers of Sodom;
Give ear to the instruction of our God,
You people of Gomorrah.

“For they call themselves after the holy city
And lean on the God of Israel;
The Lord of hosts is His name.

“Yet they seek Me day by day and delight to know My ways,
As a nation that has done righteousness
And has not forsaken the ordinance of their God.
They ask Me for just decisions,
They delight in the nearness of God.

“As for you, O house of Israel,” thus says the Lord God, “Go, serve everyone his idols; but later you will surely listen to Me, and My holy name you will profane no longer with your gifts and with your idols.

They will deal with you in hatred, take all your property, and leave you naked and bare. And the nakedness of your harlotries will be uncovered, both your lewdness and your harlotries.

They come to you as people come, and sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not do them, for they do the lustful desires expressed by their mouth, and their heart goes after their gain.

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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

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I do not speak of all of you. I know the ones I have chosen; but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’

Then they *led Jesus from Caiaphas into the Praetorium, and it was early; and they themselves did not enter into the Praetorium so that they would not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

Which is called, etc

Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” declares the Lord.

But they put their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.

Although recently you had turned and done what is right in My sight, each man proclaiming release to his neighbor, and you had made a covenant before Me in the house which is called by My name.

He built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My name.”

He built altars in the house of the Lord of which the Lord had said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”

General references

Behold, your house is being left to you desolate!