Bible Strands
Jeremiah 7:10
and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jeremiah confronts the Judahite populace as they enter the temple courts after committing the idolatry and violence listed in verse 9. He speaks at the precise moment they attempt to use the sanctuary for ritual reassurance while maintaining their rebellious practices.
The words — The Hebrew verbs וּבָאתֶ֞ם (u./va.Tem) and וַ/עֲמַדְתֶּ֣ם (va./'a.mad.Tem) literally mean "you will come" and "you will stand." They denote the physical approach to the temple that the people mistakenly treat as a guarantee of their safety.
The thread — The pattern of profaning a sacred space while persisting in idolatry and bloodshed appears in Jeremiah 32:34 and Ezekiel 23:37, 39. These passages track the same theological claim that ritual presence cannot coexist with covenant violation.
Why it lands — The text states that entering a holy place while declaring immunity to continue sin is logically and spiritually incoherent. It requires the reader to abandon the assumption that religious activity or location can override moral accountability.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 32:34 They have placed their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
- Ezekiel 23:37 For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food for their idols.
- Ezekiel 23:39 On the very day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary to profane it. Yes, they did this inside My house.
- Jeremiah 7:11 Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 7:14 therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.
- Jeremiah 7:30 For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.
- Jeremiah 34:15 Recently you repented and did what pleased Me; each of you proclaimed freedom for his neighbor. You made a covenant before Me in the house that bears My Name.
- 2 Kings 21:4 Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”
- 2 Chronicles 33:4 Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”
- 2 Chronicles 33:7 Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.