Jeremiah 11:15
in Jeremiah 11What right has My beloved in My house, having carried out so many evil schemes? Can consecrated meat avert your doom, so that you can rejoice?
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
What hath my beloved to do in my house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
KJV
What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
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This verse in Jeremiah 11
Commentary
8 notes on this verseWhat hath my beloved to do in mine house - This has been supposed to refer to Abraham, Moses, or such eminent servants of God, whose intercession was very powerful. Were even they to appear as intercessors, their prayer should not be regarded. Others think that this is an endearing expression which properly belonged to the Israelites.
This site's exposition
do not pray for these people
on Jeremiah 11:14-17
The order “do not pray for these people” repeats 7:16 nearly word for word. The LORD “once called you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit”. Verse 16 then turns the tree to kindling, “He will set it on fire, and its branches will be consumed”.
This site's exposition
What right has My beloved in My house
Adam Clarke gives two readings of the beloved: a great man of prayer such as Abraham or Moses, or Israel under a name of love. Wesley reads the consecrated meat as sacrifice set before idols as well as God, and so made unclean. Such offerings bought no escape.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Vers. 15, 16.) What is it that my beloved has done many wicked deeds in my house? Will the holy flesh take away your malice, in which you have boasted? The Lord called your name a fruitful, beautiful, and pleasant olive tree, but when the great fire of his voice blazed in it, its branches were consumed.
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
They were originally God's beloved, his spouse, he was married to them by the covenant of peculiarity; even the unbelieving Jews are said to be beloved for the fathers' sake, Rom. xi.
My beloved - My people, saith God, though I was formerly their husband, yet have wrought lewdness with many, that is, committed idolatry with many idols, and now what have they to do more in my house? The holy flesh - Flesh of their sacrifices, being set before idols, as well as before God, became polluted, and was abomination to the Lord.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Rather, "that great (or, manifold) enormity"; literally, "the enormity, the manifold"; namely, their idolatry, which made their worship of God in the temple a mockery (compare Jer 7:10; Eze 23:39) [HENDERSON]. holy flesh-- (Hag 2:12-14; Tit 1:15), namely, the sacrifices, which, through the guilt of the Jews, were no longer holy, that is, acceptable to God.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
What has my beloved to do in My house What reason has My treasured people to come anymore into My house?
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
to the sound of a great tumult Heb. המולה, an expression of the tumult of a large multitude that will come upon them.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
14 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מֶ֣ה | meh | what? | H4100 → | 752 times |
| לִֽידִידִ֞י | lididi | to beloved [one] my | H3039 → | |
| בְּבֵיתִ֗י | beveiti | in house my | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| עֲשׂוֹתָ֤הּ | asotah | doing it | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| הַֽמְזִמָּ֙תָה֙ | hamzimatah | <the> plan <towards> | H4209 → | 19 times |
| הָֽרַבִּ֔ים | harabim | the many [people] | H7227 → | 454 times |
| וּבְשַׂר־ | uvesar- | and flesh of | H1320 → | 270 times |
| קֹ֖דֶשׁ | kodesh | holiness | H6944 → | 469 times |
| יַעַבְר֣וּ | yaavru | they will pass away | H5674 → | 556 times |
| מֵֽעָלָ֑יִךְ | mealayikh | from on <the> you | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| כִּ֥י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| רָעָתֵ֖כִי | raatekhi | wickedness your | H7451 → | 662 times |
| אָ֥ז | ʾaz | then | H227 → | 141 times |
| תַּעֲלֹֽזִי׃ | taalozi | you will rejoice | H5937 → | 16 times |
מֶ֣הwhat?
mehH4100 →752 times
לִֽידִידִ֞יto beloved [one] my
lididiH3039 →
בְּבֵיתִ֗יin house my
beveitiH1004 →2046 times
עֲשׂוֹתָ֤הּdoing it
asotahH6213 →2628 times
הַֽמְזִמָּ֙תָה֙<the> plan <towards>
hamzimatahH4209 →19 times
הָֽרַבִּ֔יםthe many [people]
harabimH7227 →454 times
וּבְשַׂר־and flesh of
uvesar-H1320 →270 times
קֹ֖דֶשׁholiness
kodeshH6944 →469 times
יַעַבְר֣וּthey will pass away
yaavruH5674 →556 times
מֵֽעָלָ֑יִךְfrom on <the> you
mealayikhH5921 →5755 times
כִּ֥יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
רָעָתֵ֖כִיwickedness your
raatekhiH7451 →662 times
אָ֥זthen
ʾazH227 →141 times
תַּעֲלֹֽזִי׃you will rejoice
taaloziH5937 →16 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Proverbs 15:8The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
it leads to
- Proverbs 15:29
The LORD is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the righteous.
- 1 Chronicles 29:17
I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are…
- Proverbs 21:27
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable—how much more so when brought with ill intent!
- Proverbs 28:9
Whoever turns his ear away from hearing the law, even his prayer is detestable.
- Jeremiah 6:20
What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please Me.”
- Proverbs 15:29
Through
Titus 1:15To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
it leads to
- Romans 14:14
I am convinced and fully persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean.
- Romans 14:20
Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. All food is clean, but it is wrong for a man to let his eating be a stumbling block.
- 1 Corinthians 10:23
“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything is edifying.
- Romans 14:14
Where this verse is studied
About Jeremiah
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Calvin, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.