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10 aand then come and stand before Me in this house bwhich is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered to do all these abominations’?  
11 Has athis house, which is called by My name, become a bden of thieves in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” says the Lord.  
12 “But go now to aMy place which was in Shiloh, bwhere I set My name at the first, and see cwhat I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.  
13 And now, because you have done all these works,” says the Lord, “and I spoke to you, arising up early and speaking, but you did not hear, and I bcalled you, but you did not answer,  
14 therefore I will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to this place which I gave to you and your fathers, as I have done to aShiloh.  
15 And I will cast you out of My sight, aas I have cast out all your brethren—bthe whole posterity of Ephraim.  
16 “Therefore ado not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, nor make intercession to Me; bfor I will not hear you.  
17 Do you not see what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
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Jeremiah 7:12

Go ye unto my place in Shiloh - This argument roused the indignation of the people Jeremiah 26:8-9, Jeremiah 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 (Joshua 18:1 note). The ruin of Shiloh is ascribed Psalms 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 Jeremiah 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.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Jeremiah 7:12:

Joshua 18:1
Judges 20:18
1 Samuel 3:11

 

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