John Gill's Exposition on Jeremiah 7:14

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, etc.] The temple, as in (<240711>Jeremiah 7:11), for though it was called by his name, and his name was called upon in it, yet this could not secure it from desolation; for so the name of the Lord was set in the tabernacle at Shiloh, and yet he forsook it through the wickedness of the people: wherein ye trust; they trusted in the sacrifices there offered up, and the service there performed; in the holiness of the place, and because it was the residence of the divine Majesty; wherefore they thought this would be a protection and defence of them; and this was trusting in lying words, as in (<240704>Jeremiah 7:4): and unto the place which I gave unto you and your fathers; meaning either Jerusalem; and so the Syriac version renders it, “and to the city”; or the whole land of Judea, as in (<240707>Jeremiah 7:7): as I have done to Shiloh; (See Gill on “<240712>Jeremiah 7:12”).

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