Jeremia 7:30

Lutherbibel

Denn die Kinder Juda tun übel vor meinen Augen, spricht der HERR. Sie setzen ihre Greuel in das Haus, das nach meinem Namen genannt ist, daß sie es verunreinigen,

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Denn die Kinder Juda haben getan, was in meinen Augen böse ist, spricht der Herr ; sie haben ihre Greuel in das Haus gesetzt, das nach meinem Namen genannt ist, und es dadurch verunreinigt.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they: Jeremiah 23:11, Jeremiah 32:34, 2 Kings 21:4, 2 Kings 21:7, 2 Kings 23:4-6, 2 Kings 23:12, 2 Chronicles 33:4, 2 Chronicles 33:5, 2 Chronicles 33:7, 2 Chronicles 33:15, Ezekiel 7:20, Ezekiel 8:5-17, Ezekiel 43:7, Ezekiel 43:8, Daniel 9:27

Reciprocal: Jeremiah 7:10 - which is called Ezekiel 8:3 - the image Ezekiel 8:6 - even

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord,.... Meaning not a single action only, but a series, a course of evil actions; and those openly, in a daring manner, not only before men, but in the sight of God, and in contempt of him, like the men of Sodom, Genesis 13:13:

they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it; that is, set their idols in the temple; here Manasseh set up a graven image of the grove, 2 Kings 21:7 which was done, as if it was done on purpose to defile it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Jeremiah summons the people to lament over the miserable consequences of their rejection of God. In the valley of Hinnom, where lately they offered their innocents, they shall themselves fall before the enemy in such multitudes that burial shall be impossible, and the beasts of the field unmolested shall prey upon their remains.

Jeremiah 7:29

The daughter of Zion, defiled by the presence of enemies in her sanctuary, and rejected of God, must shear off the diadem of her hair, the symbol of her consecration to God, just as the Nazarite, when defiled by contact with a corpse, was to shave his crowned head.

Take up a lamentation ... - Or, lift up a “lamentation on the bare hill-sides” Jeremiah 3:2.

Jeremiah 7:30

They have set their abominations ... - Probably a reference to the reign of the fanatic Manasseh, in whose time the worship of Astarte and of the heavenly bodies was the established religion of the land 2 Kings 21:3-5, and even the temple was used for idolatrous services. The people had never heartily accepted Josiah’s reformation.

Jeremiah 7:31

The high places - Here, probably, not natural hills, but artificial mounts, on which the altars were erected.

Tophet (marginal reference note) is not here a proper name; as applied to Baal-worship the term is not an ordinary one, but almost unique to Jeremiah. Comparing this verse with Jeremiah 19:5; Jeremiah 32:35, it will be found that Baal is in those passages substituted for Tophet. Just as it is the practice of the prophets to substitute “Bosheth, shame,” for Baal (see Jeremiah 3:24), so here Jeremiah uses “Tophet, an object of abhorrence” (compare Job 17:6 note), in just the same way.

Valley of the son of Hinnom - See Joshua 15:8 note.

To burn ... - The children were not burned alive, but slain first Ezekiel 16:21.

Jeremiah 7:32

The valley of slaughter - Where they killed their helpless children, there shall they be slaughtered helplessly by their enemies.

Till there be no place - Rather, for want of room elsewhere.