THEOSISJeremiah 7:11Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Is this house then, in which my name hath been called upon, in your eyes become a den of robbers? I, I am he: I have seen it, saith the Lord.
הַמְעָרַ֣ת פָּרִצִ֗ים הָיָ֨ה הַבַּ֧יִת הַזֶּ֛ה אֲשֶׁר־נִקְרָֽא־שְׁמִ֥י עָלָ֖יו בְּעֵינֵיכֶ֑ם גַּ֧ם אָנֹכִ֛י הִנֵּ֥ה רָאִ֖יתִי נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Luke 19:45And entering into the temple, he began to cast out them that sold therein and them that bought.
- Luke 19:46Saying to them: It is written: My house is the house of prayer. But you have made it a den of thieves.
- Isa 56:7I will bring them into my holy mount, and will make them joyful in my house of prayer: their holocausts, and their victims shall please me upon my altar: for my house shall be called the house of prayer, for all nations.
- Matt 21:13And he saith to them: It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves.
- Mark 11:17And he taught, saying to them: Is it not written: My house shall be called the house of prayer to all nations, but you have made it a den of thieves.
- 2 Chr 6:33Hear thou from heaven thy firm dwelling place, and do all that which that stranger shall call upon thee for: that all the people of the earth may know thy name, and may fear thee, as thy people Israel, and may know, that thy name is invoked upon this house, which I have built.
- Jer 23:24Shall a man be hid in secret places, and I not see him, saith the Lord? do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord?
- John 2:16And to them that sold doves he said: Take these things hence, and make not the house of my Father a house of traffic.