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Jeremiah 7:12

in Jeremiah 7

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.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

KJV

But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

This verse in Jeremiah 7

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah · Written before 420.

(Verse 12.) Go to my place in Shiloh, where my name dwelt from the beginning, and see what I have done to it because of the evil of my people Israel. The present teaches from the past: and to those who say, 'The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord,' and who rejoice in the splendor of the precious house, Shiloh, where the tabernacle of God was first, recalls a history, about which it is written in the psalm: 'And he rejected the tabernacle of Shiloh' (Psalm 78:60).

This site's exposition

go now to the place in Shiloh

on Jeremiah 7:12-15

The command to “go now to the place in Shiloh” points to the tabernacle's first home, destroyed after Eli's sons and remembered in Psalm 78:60-64. The LORD draws the lesson, “what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name”.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

43 . [2.] It is as certain that Shiloh's fate will be Jerusalem's doom if a speedy and sincere repentance prevent it not. First, Jerusalem was now as sinful as ever Shiloh was; that is proved by the unerring testimony of God himself against them (

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The Nineteenth Century3 voices

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh - See what I did to my tabernacle and ark formerly: after a long residence at Shiloh, for the iniquity of the priests and the people, I suffered it to fall into the hands of the Philistines, and to be carried captive into their land, and to be set up in the house of their idols.

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Shiloh was situated between Beth-el and Shechem in Ephraim. at the first--implying that Shiloh exceeded the Jewish temple in antiquity. But God's favor is not tied down to localities (Ac 7:44). my people Israel--Israel was God's people, yet He spared it not when rebellious: neither will He spare Judah, now that it rebels, though heretofore it has been His people.
Go ye unto my place in Shiloh - This argument roused the indignation of the people Jer 26:8-9, Jer 26:11. The ark, Jeremiah shows, had not always been at Jerusalem. The place first chosen, as the center of the nation’s worship, was Shiloh, a town to the north of Bethel, situated in the powerful tribe of Ephraim (Jos 18:1 note). The ruin of Shiloh is ascribed Psa 78:58-64 to the idolatry which prevailed in Israel after the death of Joshua; a similar ruin due to similar causes should fall on Jerusalem Jer 7:14. The site of Shiloh is identified with Seilun, the ruins of which are so insignificant as to bear out Jerome’s remark, “At Silo, where once was the tabernacle and ark of the Lord, there can scarcely be pointed out the foundation of an altar.” At the first - In the first stage, the first period of the existence of the Jewish commonwealth, Shiloh was to the Judges what Jerusalem subsequently was to the kings; and as the fall of Shiloh through the wickedness of Eli’s sons marked the period when the government by Judges was to pass away, and the second stage begin; so the power of the kings perished at the fall of Jerusalem, and left the way clear for the third stage of Jewish polity, government by the scribes.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

Has..a cave of profligate men? Was this house in your eyes? This is a question.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Jeremiah 7:11:1, via Sefaria, The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg

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. 7 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

21 Hebrew words

Every 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.

  • כִּ֣יthat

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • לְכוּ־go

    lekhu-H1980 →1546 times

  • נָ֗אplease

    na'H4994 →404 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • מְקוֹמִי֙place my

    mekomiH4725 →401 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • בְּשִׁיל֔וֹ[was] in Shiloh

    beshiloH7887 →32 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֨רwhere

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • שִׁכַּ֧נְתִּֽיI caused to dwell

    shikantiH7931 →129 times

  • שְׁמִ֛יname my

    shemiH8034 →864 times

  • שָׁ֖םthere

    shamH8033 →834 times

  • בָּרִֽאשׁוֹנָ֑הat the former [time]

    barishonahH7223 →182 times

  • וּרְאוּ֙and see

    ureuH7200 →1300 times

  • אֵ֣ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־[that] which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • עָשִׂ֣יתִיI did

    ʾasitiH6213 →2628 times

  • ל֔וֹto <the> it

    lo

  • מִפְּנֵ֕י<from> because of

    mipeneiH6440 →2123 times

  • רָעַ֖ת[the] wickedness of

    raatH7451 →662 times

  • עַמִּ֥יpeople my

    ʾamiH5971 →1873 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Israel

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each 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

    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,

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 1:3

      Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to worship and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Joshua 19:51

      These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families distributed by lot to the tribes of Israel at Shiloh before the LORD at the entrance…

    • Joshua 21:2

      at Shiloh in the land of Canaan and said to them, “The LORD commanded through Moses that we be given cities in which to live, together with pasturelands for our livestock.”

    • 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.’”

  • Through

    Judges 18:31

    So they set up for themselves Micah’s graven image, and it was there the whole time the house of God was in Shiloh.

    it leads to

    • 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,

  • Through

    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.’”

    it leads to

    • 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.

    • 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,…

    • 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;

Where this verse is studied

About Jeremiah

Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, Rembrandt, 1630. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); 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) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.