Jeremiah 7:11

11 Do you regard this temple, which bears my name, as a hiding place for criminals? I can see what's going on here, declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 7:11 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 7:11

Is this house, which is called by my name
Meaning the temple: become a den of robbers in your eyes?
or do you look upon it, and make use of it, as thieves do of dens; who, when they have robbed and murdered men, betake themselves to them, not only to share their spoil, but to hide themselves? just so those thieves, murderers adulterers, perjurers, and idolaters, after they had committed such gross enormities, came into the temple and offered sacrifices; thinking hereby to cover their sins, and expiate the guilt of them, and to be looked upon as good men, and true worshippers of God, when they were no better than thieves and robbers; and such were the Pharisees in Christ's time, and such was the temple as made by them; see ( Matthew 21:13 ) : behold, even I have seen it, saith the Lord;
not only all the abominations committed by them, but the use they made of the temple and the worship of it; all the hypocrisy of their hearts, and the inward thoughts of them, and their views and intentions in their offerings and sacrifices; as well as what ruin and destruction the Lord designed to bring shortly upon them, and upon that house which they had made a den of robbers; as follows:

Jeremiah 7:11 In-Context

9 Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, sacrifice to Baal and go after other gods that you don't know,

10 and then come and stand before me in this temple that bears my name, and say, "We are safe," only to keep on doing all these detestable things?

11 Do you regard this temple, which bears my name, as a hiding place for criminals? I can see what's going on here, declares the LORD.

12 Just go to my sanctuary in Shiloh, where I let my name dwell at first, and see what I did to it because of the evil of my people Israel.

13 And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, because you haven't listened when I spoke to you again and again or responded when I called you,