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Jeremiah 7:9

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

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods that ye have not known,

KJV

Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;

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This verse in Jeremiah 7

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Will ye steal, murder - Will you continue to commit such abominations, and pretend to worship me; and thus defile the place that is called by my name; and so make my house a den of robbers? I have seen this, - and can you expect to escape condign punishment? Ye shall not escape.

This site's exposition

trusting in deceptive words to no avail

on Jeremiah 7:8-11

Verse 8 states the charge plainly, “you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail”. Jesus repeats the words “a den of robbers” at the temple cleansing in Matthew 21:13, Mark 11:17 and Luke 19:46. A den of robbers is where robbers go to feel safe after the crime.

This site's exposition

burn incense to Baal

The verse runs through the commandments of Sinai one by one: theft, murder, adultery, false oaths and other gods. Barnes hears the charge as a people who break the Ten Commandments and then walk into the temple. Clarke asks how such worshippers could expect to escape.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah · Written before 420.

proposed

(Verse 8 and following) Behold, you trust in yourselves with words of falsehood (or lies) which have not benefited you. To steal, to kill, to commit adultery, to swear falsely, to offer sacrifices to Baal, and to follow foreign gods that you do not know. And you have come and stood before me in this house, in which my name is invoked, and you have said: We are delivered (or we have ceased): because we have done all these abominations. They vainly have confidence in the temple, as the following sins show.

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Those that think to excuse themselves in unchristian practices with the Christian name, and sin the more boldly and securely because there is a sin-offering provided, do, in effect, make God's house of prayer a den of thieves, as the priests in Christ's time, Matt. xxi.

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Will ye steal - Can you think that this can be grateful to me, or advantageous to yourselves, to frequent my house, and yet retain these odious sins. Whom - Such as they had set up new, and never had any experience of, and therefore could have no reason to serve them.
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely,....

The words behind it

14 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.

  • הֲגָנֹ֤ב׀¿ will you steal

    haganoH1589 →

  • רָצֹ֙חַ֙will you murder?

    ratzoachH7523 →

  • וְֽנָאֹ֔ףand will you commit adultery?

    venaofH5003 →31 times

  • וְהִשָּׁבֵ֥עַand will you swear?

    vehishavea'H7650 →186 times

  • לַשֶּׁ֖קֶרto <the> falsehood

    lashekerH8267 →113 times

  • וְקַטֵּ֣רand will you make smoke?

    vekaterH6999 →116 times

  • לַבָּ֑עַלto <the> Baal

    labaalH1168 →82 times

  • וְהָלֹ֗ךְand will you walk?

    vehalokhH1980 →1546 times

  • אַחֲרֵ֛יafter

    ʾachareiH310 →715 times

  • אֱלֹהִ֥יםgods

    ʾelohimH430 →2601 times

  • אֲחֵרִ֖יםother

    ʾacherimH312 →166 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • לֹֽא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • יְדַעְתֶּֽם׃you have known

    yeda'temH3045 →945 times

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

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Jeremiah 1:16I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me to burn incense to other gods and to worship the works of their own hands.6 worksExodus 20:3You shall have no other gods before Me.5 worksJeremiah 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,5 worksEphesians 4:28He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing good with his own hands, that he may have something to share with the one in need.5 worksJames 4:1–4What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?4 worksJeremiah 11:17The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you on account of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have brought upon themselves, provoking Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.”4 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Jeremiah 11:13Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up—the altars to burn incense to Baal—are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’4 worksJeremiah 19:4because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.4 worksHosea 2:13I will punish her for the days of the Baals when she burned incense to them, when she decked herself with rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers. But Me she forgot,” declares the LORD.4 works1 Kings 18:21Then Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him. But if Baal is God, follow him.” But the people did not answer a word.3 worksRomans 2:2And we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth.3 worksGalatians 5:19–21The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;3 worksRevelation 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.3 worksHosea 11:10They will walk after the LORD; He will roar like a lion. When He roars, His children will come trembling from the west.3 worksJeremiah 5:2Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ they are swearing falsely.”3 worksZechariah 5:3–4Then he told me, “This is the curse that is going out over the face of all the land, for according to one side of the scroll, every thief will be removed; and according to the other side, every perjurer will be removed.2 works1 Corinthians 6:9–10Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,2 worksJudges 5:8When they chose new gods, then war came to their gates. Not a shield or spear was found among forty thousand in Israel.2 works

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

    Exodus 20:3

    You shall have no other gods before Me.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 5:7

      You shall have no other gods before Me.

    • Matthew 4:10

      “Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus declared. “For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.’”

    • Psalms 81:9

      There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.

    • Isaiah 46:9

      Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me.

    • Deuteronomy 6:5

      And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 7:6

    if 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,

    it leads to

    • Exodus 22:21–24

      You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

    • Jeremiah 13:10

      These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and worship them, they will be like this…

    • Deuteronomy 8:19

      If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.

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.
Jeremiah: the study guide →Read Jeremiah 7 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; 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.

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