Bible Strands
Jeremiah 26:6
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the earth.’”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jeremiah delivers this declaration to the priests, prophets, and gathered people inside the house of the LORD. The statement follows his recounting of God's repeated warnings through His servants and precedes the audience's reaction.
The words — נָתַתִּי (na.tat.ti) literally means "I will make" or "I will give," grounding the judgment in divine action. הַ/בַּ֥יִת הַ/זֶּ֖ה (ha./Ba.yit ha./Zeh) specifies "this house" as the temple building currently standing.
The thread — The text states the temple will be reduced to the ruined state of Shiloh, a pattern of divine judgment repeated in Jeremiah 24:9 and Isaiah 65:15 regarding national cursing and disgrace.
Why it lands — The passage states that persistent rejection of prophetic warning results in the removal of sanctuary and civic protection. It requires the reader to recognize that divine patience has a defined limit and that hearing demands obedience.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
Cross-references
- 2 Kings 22:19 because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 24:9 I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.
- Isaiah 65:15 You will leave behind your name as a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord GOD will slay you; but to His servants He will give another name.
- Jeremiah 25:18 to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;
- 1 Samuel 4:10 So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. The slaughter was very great—thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.
- 1 Samuel 4:19 Now Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news of the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth, for her labor pains overtook her.
- Psalms 78:60 He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.
- Jeremiah 7:12 But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.
- Daniel 9:11 All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, because we have sinned against You.
- Joshua 18:1 Then the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there. And though the land was subdued before them,