Jeremiah 26:6
4 And you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘If you do not listen to Me and walk in My law, which I have set before you,
5 and if you do not listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have sent you again and again even though you did not listen,
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.’”
7 Now the priests and prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the LORD,
8 and as soon as he had finished telling all the people everything the LORD had commanded him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people seized him, shouting, “You must surely die!
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- 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.’”
- KJV
- Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
- WEB
- then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.’”
- ASV
- then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
- DARBY
- then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
- BLB
- then I will give this house [to be] like Shiloh, and I will give this city to be a curse for all the nations of the earth.
- ÅB
- så vil jeg gjøre med dette hus som med Silo, og denne by vil jeg gjøre til en forbannelse for alle jordens folkeslag.
- OTB
- da vil jeg gjøre dette huset som Sjilo, og denne byen vil bli en forbannelse blant alle jordens nasjoner.'"
- B1930
- så vil jeg gjøre med dette hus som med Silo, og denne by vil jeg gjøre til en forbannelse for alle jordens folkeslag.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
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.
Read in context2 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, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
Read in contextIsaiah 65:15
You will leave behind your name as a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord GOD will slay you; but to His servants He will give another name.
Read in contextJeremiah 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;
Read in contextDaniel 9:11
All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, because we have sinned against You.
Read in context1 Samuel 4:19–22
Now Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news of the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth, for her labor pains overtook her.
Read in contextPsalms 78:60–64
He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.
Read in contextJeremiah 7:12–14
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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