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the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Good News Translation

Jeremiah 7:7

If you change, I will let you go on living here in the land which I gave your ancestors as a permanent possession.

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

1The Lord sent me to the gate of the Temple where the people of Judah went in to worship. He told me to stand there and announce what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, had to say to them: "Change the way you are living and the things you are doing, and I will let you go on living here. 4 Stop believing those deceitful words, ‘We are safe! This is the Lord 's Temple, this is the Lord 's Temple, this is the Lord 's Temple!' 5 "Change the way you are living and stop doing the things you are doing. Be fair in your treatment of one another. 6 Stop taking advantage of aliens, orphans, and widows. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop worshiping other gods, for that will destroy you. 7 If you change, I will let you go on living here in the land which I gave your ancestors as a permanent possession. 8 "Look, you put your trust in deceitful words. 9 You steal, murder, commit adultery, tell lies under oath, offer sacrifices to Baal, and worship gods that you had not known before. 10 You do these things I hate, and then you come and stand in my presence, in my own Temple, and say, ‘We are safe!' 11 Do you think that my Temple is a hiding place for robbers? I have seen what you are doing. 12 Go to Shiloh, the first place where I chose to be worshiped, and see what I did to it because of the sins of my people Israel.

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
but I will make a covenant with you. Go into the boat with your wife, your sons, and their wives.
Genesis 7:1
The Lord said to Noah, "Go into the boat with your whole family; I have found that you are the only one in all the world who does what is right.
Genesis 7:13
On that same day Noah and his wife went into the boat with their three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and their wives.
Genesis 7:15
A male and a female of each kind of living being went into the boat with Noah,
Proverbs 22:3
Sensible people will see trouble coming and avoid it, but an unthinking person will walk right into it and regret it later.
Matthew 24:38
In the days before the flood people ate and drank, men and women married, up to the very day Noah went into the boat;
Luke 17:27
Everybody kept on eating and drinking, and men and women married, up to the very day Noah went into the boat and the flood came and killed them all.
Hebrews 6:18
There are these two things, then, that cannot change and about which God cannot lie. So we who have found safety with him are greatly encouraged to hold firmly to the hope placed before us.
Hebrews 11:7
It was faith that made Noah hear God's warnings about things in the future that he could not see. He obeyed God and built a boat in which he and his family were saved. As a result, the world was condemned, and Noah received from God the righteousness that comes by faith.
1 Peter 3:20
These were the spirits of those who had not obeyed God when he waited patiently during the days that Noah was building his boat. The few people in the boat—eight in all—were saved by the water,

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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