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the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Jeremiah 7:7

If you obey me, I will let you live in this place. I gave this land to your ancestors for them to keep forever.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Condescension of God;   Integrity;   Orphan;   Repentance;   Widow;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fatherless;   Justice;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Widow;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Ethics;   Hypocrisy;   Lamentations, Theology of;   Wealth;   Zechariah, Theology of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Election;   Hope;   Jeremiah;   Jerusalem;   Justice;   Sacrifice and Offering;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Habakkuk;   Jeremiah;   Widow;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Self-Examination;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Josiah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Duty;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will allow you to live in this place, the land I gave to your ancestors long ago and forever.
Hebrew Names Version
then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore.
King James Version
Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
English Standard Version
then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers forever.
New American Standard Bible
then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
New Century Version
If you do these things, I will let you live in this land that I gave to your ancestors to keep forever.
Amplified Bible
then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers [to live in] forever and ever.
World English Bible
then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even forevermore.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then will I let you dwell in this place in the lande that I gaue vnto your fathers, for euer and euer.
Legacy Standard Bible
then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
Berean Standard Bible
then I will allow you to live in this place, in the land I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
Contemporary English Version
Then I will let you enjoy a long life in this land I gave your ancestors.
Complete Jewish Bible
then I will let you stay in this place, in the land I gave to your ancestors forever and ever.
Darby Translation
then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers from of old even for ever.
George Lamsa Translation
Then I will cause you to dwell in this country, in the land that I gave to your fathers for ever and ever.
Good News Translation
If you change, I will let you go on living here in the land which I gave your ancestors as a permanent possession.
Lexham English Bible
then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your ancestors forever and ever.
Literal Translation
then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from forever and to forever.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
then wil I let you dwell in this place, yee in the londe that I gaue afore tyme vnto youre fathers for euer.
American Standard Version
then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even for evermore.
Bible in Basic English
Then I will let you go on living in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers in the past and for ever.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
King James Version (1611)
Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gaue to your fathers, for euer and euer.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then wyll I let you dwell in this place, yea in the land that I gaue afore tyme to your fathers for euer.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers of old and for ever.
English Revised Version
then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even for evermore.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y schal dwelle with you in this place, in the lond which Y yaf to youre fadris, fro the world and til in to the world.
Update Bible Version
then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, from of old even for evermore.
Webster's Bible Translation
Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
New English Translation
If you stop doing these things, I will allow you to continue to live in this land which I gave to your ancestors as a lasting possession.
New King James Version
then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
New Living Translation
Then I will let you stay in this land that I gave to your ancestors to keep forever.
New Life Bible
then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
New Revised Standard
then I will dwell with you in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your ancestors forever and ever.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then will I cause you to dwell In this place, In the land which I gave to your fathers, - From one age even unto another,
Douay-Rheims Bible
I will dwell with you in this place: in the land, which I gave to your fathers from the beginning and for evermore.
Revised Standard Version
then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave of old to your fathers for ever.
Young's Literal Translation
Then I have caused you to dwell in this place, In the land that I gave to your fathers, From age even unto age.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
then I will let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

Contextual Overview

1 This is the Lord 's message to Jeremiah: 2 "Jeremiah, stand at the gate of the Lord 's house. Teach this message at the gate: "‘Hear the message from the Lord , all you people of the nation of Judah. All you who come through these gates to worship the Lord , hear this message. 3 The Lord All-Powerful, the God of Israel, says: Change your lives and do good things. If you do this, I will let you live in this place. 4 Don't trust the lies that some people say. They say, "This is the Temple of the Lord , the Temple of the Lord , the Temple of the Lord !" 5 If you change your lives and do good things, I will let you live in this place. You must be fair to each other. 6 You must be fair to strangers. You must help widows and orphans. Don't kill innocent people! And don't follow other gods, because they will only ruin your lives. 7 If you obey me, I will let you live in this place. I gave this land to your ancestors for them to keep forever. 8 "‘But you are trusting lies that are worthless. 9 Will you steal and murder? Will you commit adultery? Will you falsely accuse other people? Will you worship the false god Baal and follow other gods that you have not known? 10 If you commit these sins, do you think that you can stand before me in this house that is called by my name? Do you think you can stand before me and say, "We are safe," just so you can do all these terrible things?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

will I: Jeremiah 17:20-27, Jeremiah 18:7, Jeremiah 18:8, Jeremiah 25:5

in the land: Jeremiah 3:18, Deuteronomy 4:40, 2 Chronicles 33:8

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 19:10 - General Jeremiah 38:17 - If thou Ezekiel 18:7 - hath not Zephaniah 3:7 - so John 4:23 - true

Cross-References

Genesis 6:18
I will make a special agreement with you. You, your wife, your sons, and their wives will all go into the boat.
Genesis 7:1
Then the Lord said to Noah, "I have seen that you are a good man, even among the evil people of this time. So gather your family, and all of you go into the boat.
Genesis 7:15
All these animals went into the boat with Noah. They came in groups of two from every kind of animal that had the breath of life.
Proverbs 22:3
Wise people see trouble coming and get out of its way, but fools go straight to it and suffer for it.
Matthew 24:38
In those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving their children to be married right up to the day Noah entered the boat.
Luke 17:27
People were eating, drinking, and getting married even on the day when Noah entered the boat. Then the flood came and killed them all.
Hebrews 6:18
These two things cannot change: God cannot lie when he says something, and he cannot lie when he makes an oath. So these two things are a great help to us who have come to God for safety. They encourage us to hold on to the hope that is ours.
Hebrews 11:7
Noah was warned by God about things that he could not yet see. But he had faith and respect for God, so he built a large boat to save his family. With his faith, Noah showed that the world was wrong. And he became one of those who are made right with God through faith.
1 Peter 3:20
Those were the spirits who refused to obey God long ago in the time of Noah. God was waiting patiently for people while Noah was building the big boat. And only a few—eight in all—were saved in the boat through the floodwater.
2 Peter 2:5
And God punished the evil people who lived long ago. He brought a flood to the world that was full of people who were against God. But he saved Noah and seven other people with him. Noah was a man who told people about living right.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then will I cause you to dwell in this place,.... In the land of Judea, and not suffer them to be carried captive, which they had been threatened with, and had reason to expect, should they continue in their sins, in their impenitence and vain confidence:

in the land that I gave to your fathers; to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, by promise; and to the Jewish fathers in the times of Joshua, by putting them in actual possession of it:

for ever and ever: for a great while; a long time, as Kimchi explains it; from the days of Abraham for ever, even all the days of the world, provided they and their children walked in the ways of the Lord. This clause may either be connected with the word "dwell", or with the word give; and the sense is, either that they should dwell in it for ever and ever; or it was given to their fathers for ever and ever.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A summary of the conditions indispensable on man’s part, before he can plead the terms of the covenant in his favor.

Jeremiah 7:6

In this place - i. e., in Jerusalem. The prophet refers to innocent blood shed there judicially. Of one such judicial murder Jehoiakim had already been guilty Jeremiah 26:23.

Jeremiah 7:7

Why then do not the Jews still possess a land thus eternally given them? Because God never bestows anything unconditionally. The land was bestowed upon them by virtue of a covenant Genesis 17:7; the Jews had broken the conditions of this covenant Jeremiah 7:5-6, and the gift reverted to the original donor.


 
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