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Jeremiah 7:11

Do you think this temple I have claimed as my own is to be a hideout for robbers? You had better take note! I have seen for myself what you have done! says the Lord .

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Condescension of God;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Quotations and Allusions;   Robbers;   Thompson Chain Reference - Dens;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Caves;   Sins, National;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Ethics;   Hypocrisy;   Lamentations, Theology of;   War, Holy War;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Election;   Jeremiah;   Jerusalem;   Sacrifice and Offering;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Habakkuk;   Jeremiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Cave ;   Den ;   Honesty ;   Old Testament (Ii. Christ as Student and Interpreter of).;   Robber ;   Self-Examination;   Septuagint;   Trade and Commerce;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Covenant, the New;   Josiah;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Has this house, which bears my name, become a den of robbers in your view? Yes, I too have seen it.
Hebrew Names Version
Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says the LORD.
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 .
English Standard Version
Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, declares the Lord .
New American Standard Bible
"Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Behold, I Myself have seen it," declares the LORD.
New Century Version
This place where I have chosen to be worshiped is nothing more to you than a hideout for robbers. I have been watching you, says the Lord .
Amplified Bible
"Has this house, which is called by My Name, become a den of robbers in your eyes [a place of retreat for you between acts of violence]? Behold, I Myself have seen it," says the LORD.
World English Bible
Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, says Yahweh.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Is this House become a denne of theeues, whereupon my Name is called before your eyes? Beholde, euen I see it, sayeth the Lord.
Legacy Standard Bible
Has this house, which is called by My name, become a robbers' den in your sight? Behold, I, even I, have seen it," declares Yahweh.
Berean Standard Bible
Has this house, which bears My name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.
Contemporary English Version
You are thieves, and you have made my temple your hideout. But I've seen everything you have done.
Complete Jewish Bible
Do you regard this house, which bears my name, as a cave for bandits? I can see for myself what's going on," says Adonai .
Darby Translation
Is this house, which is called by my name, a den of robbers in your eyes? Even I, behold, I have seen it, saith Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
This Temple is called by my name. Is this Temple nothing more to you than a hideout for robbers? I have been watching you.'" This message is from the Lord .
George Lamsa Translation
Is this house which is called by my name become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, says the LORD.
Good News Translation
Do you think that my Temple is a hiding place for robbers? I have seen what you are doing.
Lexham English Bible
Has this house, which is called by my name, become a cave of robbers in your eyes? Look, I, even I, have seen it," declares Yahweh.
Literal Translation
Has this house on which My name is called become a den of violent ones in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen, declares Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
What? thinke you this house that beareth my name, is a denne of theues? And these thinges are not done priuely, but before myne eyes, saieth the LORDE.
American Standard Version
Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, saith Jehovah.
Bible in Basic English
Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Is this house, whereupon My name is called, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, saith the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
Is this house, which is called by my Name, become a denne of robbers in your eies? Behold, euen I haue seen it, saith the Lord.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
What, thinke you this house that beareth my name, is a denne of thieues? And yet I see what you thinke, saith the Lorde.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Is my house, whereon my name is called, a den of robbers in your eyes? And, behold, I have seen it, saith the Lord.
English Revised Version
Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, saith the LORD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether therfor this hous, wherynne my name is clepid to help bifore youre iyen, is maad a denne of theues? I, Y am, Y siy, seith the Lord.
Update Bible Version
Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Look, I, even I, have seen it, says Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
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.
New King James Version
Has this house, which is called by My name, become a den of thieves in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it," says the LORD.
New Living Translation
Don't you yourselves admit that this Temple, which bears my name, has become a den of thieves? Surely I see all the evil going on there. I, the Lord , have spoken!
New Life Bible
Has this house which is called by My name become a place of robbers in your eyes? See, I Myself have seen it," says the Lord.
New Revised Standard
Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your sight? You know, I too am watching, says the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A den of robbers, hath this house on which my Name hath been called become in your own eyes? I, also, - lo! I have seen it Declareth Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Is this house then, in which my name hath been called upon, in your eyes become a den of robbers? I, I am he: I have seen it, saith the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it, says the LORD.
Young's Literal Translation
A den of burglars hath this house, On which My name is called, been in your eyes? Even I, lo, I have seen, an affirmation of Jehovah.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"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.

Contextual Overview

1 The Lord said to Jeremiah: 2 "Stand in the gate of the Lord 's temple and proclaim this message: ‘Listen, all you people of Judah who have passed through these gates to worship the Lord . Hear what the Lord has to say. 3 The Lord God of Israel who rules over all says: Change the way you have been living and do what is right. If you do, I will allow you to continue to live in this land. 4 Stop putting your confidence in the false belief that says, "We are safe! The temple of the Lord is here! The temple of the Lord is here! The temple of the Lord is here!" 5 You must change the way you have been living and do what is right. You must treat one another fairly. 6 Stop oppressing foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop paying allegiance to other gods. That will only bring about your ruin. 7 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. 8 "‘But just look at you! You are putting your confidence in a false belief that will not deliver you. 9 You steal. You murder. You commit adultery. You lie when you swear on oath. You sacrifice to the god Baal. You pay allegiance to other gods whom you have not previously known. 10 Then you come and stand in my presence in this temple I have claimed as my own and say, "We are safe!" You think you are so safe that you go on doing all those hateful sins!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

this: 2 Chronicles 6:33, Isaiah 56:7, Matthew 21:13, Mark 11:17, Luke 19:45, Luke 19:46, John 2:16

even: Jeremiah 2:34, Jeremiah 16:16, Jeremiah 16:17, Jeremiah 23:24, Hebrews 4:13, Revelation 2:18, Revelation 2:19

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 9:13 - I have 1 Samuel 15:19 - fly upon Proverbs 21:27 - sacrifice Jeremiah 7:10 - which is called Jeremiah 23:11 - in Jeremiah 34:15 - which is called by my name Zechariah 11:3 - for their Luke 21:6 - there 1 Corinthians 6:10 - thieves

Cross-References

Genesis 1:7
So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. It was so.
Genesis 6:17
I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy from under the sky all the living creatures that have the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the earth will die,
Genesis 7:5
And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him.
Genesis 7:6
Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters engulfed the earth.
Genesis 7:8
Pairs of clean animals, of unclean animals, of birds, and of everything that creeps along the ground,
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month—on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst open and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Genesis 7:23
So the Lord destroyed every living thing that was on the surface of the ground, including people, animals, creatures that creep along the ground, and birds of the sky. They were wiped off the earth. Only Noah and those who were with him in the ark survived.
Genesis 7:24
The waters prevailed over the earth for 150 days.
2 Kings 7:2
An officer who was the king's right-hand man responded to the prophet, "Look, even if the Lord made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?" Elisha said, "Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!"
2 Kings 7:19
But the officer replied to the prophet, "Look, even if the Lord made it rain by opening holes in the sky, could this happen so soon?" Elisha said, "Look, you will see it happen with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of the food!"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Is this house, which is called by my name,.... Meaning the temple:

become a den of robbers in your eyes? or do you look upon it, and make use of it, as thieves do of dens; who, when they have robbed and murdered men, betake themselves to them, not only to share their spoil, but to hide themselves? just so those thieves, murderers adulterers, perjurers, and idolaters, after they had committed such gross enormities, came into the temple and offered sacrifices; thinking hereby to cover their sins, and expiate the guilt of them, and to be looked upon as good men, and true worshippers of God, when they were no better than thieves and robbers; and such were the Pharisees in Christ's time, and such was the temple as made by them; see Matthew 21:13:

behold, even I have seen it, saith the Lord; not only all the abominations committed by them, but the use they made of the temple and the worship of it; all the hypocrisy of their hearts, and the inward thoughts of them, and their views and intentions in their offerings and sacrifices; as well as what ruin and destruction the Lord designed to bring shortly upon them, and upon that house which they had made a den of robbers; as follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Robbers - literally, tearers, those who rob with violence. The temple was the place which sheltered them. It had been consecrated to God. Now that it harbors miscreants, must it not as inevitably be destroyed as a den of robbers would be by any righteous ruler?


 
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