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Jeremiah 7:7

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.

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.
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 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 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

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 confirm my covenant with you. You will enter the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and your sons' wives with you.
Genesis 7:1
The Lord said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.
Genesis 7:13
On that very day Noah entered the ark, accompanied by his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, along with his wife and his sons' three wives.
Genesis 7:15
Pairs of all creatures that have the breath of life came into the ark to Noah.
Proverbs 22:3
A shrewd person sees danger and hides himself, but the naive keep right on going and suffer for it.
Matthew 24:38
For in those days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark.
Luke 17:27
People were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage—right up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
Hebrews 6:18
so that we who have found refuge in him may find strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us through two unchangeable things, since it is impossible for God to lie.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, when he was warned about things not yet seen, with reverent regard constructed an ark for the deliverance of his family. Through faith he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
1 Peter 3:20
after they were disobedient long ago when God patiently waited in the days of Noah as an ark was being constructed. In the ark a few, that is eight souls, were delivered through 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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