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    Jeremiah · 34 verses

    Jeremiah 7

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    At the temple gate, a people arrive with theft, murder, adultery, perjury, and unfamiliar gods in their pockets, then declare themselves delivered. The house bearing the LORD’s Name is asked to serve as both sanctuary and alibi—an arrangement the LORD finds less than convincing.

    At the gate of the housevv. 1–15

    Jeremiah is sent to stand in the gate and speak to Judah: the temple is no charm against crooked ways. Justice toward one another, mercy for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and the refusal of innocent blood are the conditions named. Instead, the people trust the repeated little charm, “the temple of the LORD,” while stealing, murdering, swearing falsely, burning incense to Baal, and following gods they have not known. Then they come into the house bearing the LORD’s Name and say they are delivered—so, apparently, the abominations may continue. The LORD answers with a house turned den of robbers, and sends Judah to look at Shiloh, where a former dwelling for His Name did not save the place from the wickedness of Israel. What happened to Shiloh will happen here; even the descendants of Ephraim have already been cast out. Jeremiah is told not to pray for these people, which is a remarkably firm instruction to a prophet.

    Wood, fire, and cakesvv. 17–20

    The scene shifts to the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem. Sons gather wood, fathers light the fire, and women knead dough for cakes to the Queen of Heaven; drink offerings go to other gods as well. It is domestic, coordinated, and busy—the sort of household enterprise that might otherwise end with supper. Here it provokes the LORD’s anger, poured over the place, its people and animals, its trees and produce, with nothing in the sentence eager to go out.

    What was commanded, and what was donevv. 21–34

    Burnt offerings receive the chapter’s most startlingly unceremonious instruction: add them to the other sacrifices and eat the meat. The LORD recalls bringing their fathers out of Egypt, not merely to command sacrifices, but to command obedience. Yet the fathers would not listen; they followed their own stubborn hearts and went backward rather than forward. Prophets were sent again and again, and were answered with stiff necks. Truth has perished from the lips of the nation. Judah has defiled the house bearing the LORD’s Name and built Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom to burn sons and daughters—something never commanded, never even imagined by the LORD. The place will be called the Valley of Slaughter; corpses, birds, beasts, and an emptying of joy from Judah and Jerusalem complete the dreadful inventory.

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    1. Jer 7:1This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,

    2. Jer 7:2“Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD.

    3. Jer 7:3Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.

    4. Jer 7:4Do not trust in deceptive words, saying: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’

    5. Jer 7:5For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another,

    6. Jer 7:6if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,

    7. Jer 7:7then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.

    8. Jer 7:8But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail.

    9. Jer 7:9Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known,

    10. Jer 7:10and 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’?

    11. Jer 7:11Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.

    12. Jer 7:12But 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.

    13. Jer 7:13And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer,

    14. Jer 7:14therefore 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.

    15. Jer 7:15And I will cast you out of My presence, just as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim.

    16. Jer 7:16As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you.

    17. Jer 7:17Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

    18. Jer 7:18The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.

    19. Jer 7:19But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?

    20. Jer 7:20Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.

    21. Jer 7:21This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!

    22. Jer 7:22For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices,

    23. Jer 7:23but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.

    24. Jer 7:24Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.

    25. Jer 7:25From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again.

    26. Jer 7:26Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers.

    27. Jer 7:27When you tell them all these things, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer.

    28. Jer 7:28Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.

    29. Jer 7:29Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’

    30. Jer 7:30For 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.

    31. Jer 7:31They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.

    32. Jer 7:32So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.

    33. Jer 7:33The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away.

    34. Jer 7:34I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”

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    Where this is echoed

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    • 23Exodus 15:26saying, “If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in His eyes, and pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, then I will not bring on you any of the diseases I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.”
    • 23Deuteronomy 5:33You must walk in all the ways that the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live and prosper and prolong your days in the land that you will possess.
    • 23Exodus 19:5–6Now if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, you will be My treasured possession out of all the nations—for the whole earth is Mine.
    • 23Jeremiah 42:6Whether it is pleasant or unpleasant, we will obey the voice of the LORD our God to whom we are sending you, so that it may go well with us when we obey the voice of the LORD our God!”
    • 23Hebrews 5:9And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him
    • 22Hosea 6:6For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
    • 221 Samuel 15:22But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.
    • 23Deuteronomy 6:3Hear, O Israel, and be careful to observe them, so that you may prosper and multiply greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
    • 16Jeremiah 11:14As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster.
    • 22Psalms 51:16–17For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.
    • 23Deuteronomy 13:4You are to follow the LORD your God and fear Him. Keep His commandments and listen to His voice; serve Him and hold fast to Him.
    • 23Deuteronomy 30:20and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
    • 11Luke 19:45–46Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling there.
    • 11Isaiah 56:7I will bring them to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on My altar, for My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations.”
    • 16Jeremiah 14:11–12Then the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people.
    • 22Matthew 9:13But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

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