Jeremiah 26:6 - Forerunner Commentary

Jeremiah 26:6

4 And you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord: ^a“If you will not listen to Me, to walk in My law which I have set before you,

5 to heed the words of My servants the prophets ^awhom I sent to you, both rising up early and sending them (but you have not heeded),

6 then I will make this house like ^aShiloh, and will make this city ^ba curse to all the nations of the earth.” ’ ”

7 So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord.

8 Now it happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You will surely die!

9 Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be ^adesolate, without an inhabitant’?” And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.

10 When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house to the house of the Lord and sat down in the entry of the New Gate of the Lord’s house.

11 And the priests and the prophets spoke to the princes and all the people, saying,¹ “This man deserves to ^adie! For he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.”

Verse Comparison: Jeremiah 26:6

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American Standard Version
then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

Amplified® Bible
Then will I make this house [the temple] like Shiloh [the home of the Tent of Meeting, abandoned and later destroyed after the ark was captured by the Philistines], and I will make this city subject to the curses of all nations of the earth [so vile in their sight will it be].

Contemporary English Version
I will destroy this temple, just as I destroyed the town of Shiloh. Then everyone on earth will use the name "Jerusalem" as a curse word.

Darby English Version
-- then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

Good News Bible
If you continue to disobey, then I will do to this Temple what I did to Shiloh, and all the nations of the world will use the name of this city as a curse."

King James Version
Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

New American Standard Bible
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city I will make a curse to all the nations of the earth.'""

New International Version
then I will make this house like Shiloh and this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the earth.' "

New King James Version
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.”’”

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city I will make a curse to all the nations of the earth."'"

Revised Standard Version
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.'"

Young's Literal Translation
Then I have given up this house as Shiloh, and this city I give up for a reviling to all nations of the earth.'

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