Jeremiah’s Message at the Temple Gate
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, “Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD. Jer 26:2Rev 3:22Amo 7:16Ezk 2:4-5Isa 1:10Jer 22:1-21Ki 22:19Hos 5:1 Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place. Jer 18:11Jer 26:13Pro 28:13Isa 1:16-19Isa 55:7Ezk 18:30-31Ezk 33:4-11Jer 7:5-7 Do not trust in deceptive words, chanting: Mic 3:11Mat 3:9-10Zep 3:11Ezk 13:19Jer 29:311Sa 4:3-4Jer 28:15Jer 6:14
‘This is the temple of the LORD,
the temple of the LORD,
the temple of the LORD.’
For if you really correct your ways and deeds, if you act justly toward one another, 1Ki 6:12-13Isa 1:19Jer 4:1-2Jer 7:3Ezk 18:17Ezk 18:8Isa 16:3Jer 22:3 if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm, Exo 22:21-24Deu 8:19Jer 13:10Zec 7:9-12Deu 11:28Deu 6:14-15Jer 2:34Deu 24:17 then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever. Deu 4:40Jer 25:5Jer 18:7-8Jer 3:182Ch 33:8Jer 17:20-27
But look, you keep trusting in deceptive words to no avail. Isa 28:15Ezk 13:6-16Isa 30:10Jer 14:13-14Jer 23:14-16Jer 23:26Jer 23:32Jer 4:10 Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known, Exo 20:3Jer 7:6Jas 4:1-4Jer 11:13Jer 11:171Ki 18:21Gal 5:19-21Rev 22:15 and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’? Jer 32:34Ezk 23:37Ezk 23:39Jer 34:15Jer 7:11Jer 7:14Jer 7:302Ch 33:4 Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers 1in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD. Isa 56:7Luk 19:45-46Mat 21:13Mrk 11:172Ch 6:33Jhn 2:16Jer 23:24Heb 4:13
But go now to the place in Shiloh where I first made a dwelling for My Name, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel. 1Sa 4:10-11Jer 26:6Jos 18:1Jdg 18:31Psa 78:60-641Sa 4:221Sa 1:31Sa 4:3-4 And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again 2but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer, Isa 65:122Ch 36:15-16Jer 7:25Pro 1:24Hos 11:2Zec 7:13Hos 11:7Isa 50:2 therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers. 2Ki 25:9Psa 78:60Jer 7:4Deu 28:52Jer 7:101Ki 9:7-81Sa 4:10-112Ch 36:18-19 And I will cast you out of My presence, just as I have cast out all your brothers, all the descendants of Ephraim. Jer 15:12Ki 17:23Hos 13:16Hos 9:16-17Jer 52:32Ch 15:92Ki 17:18-202Ki 24:20
Judah’s Idolatry Persists
As for you, do not pray for these people, do not offer a plea or petition on their behalf, and do not beg Me, for I will not listen to you. Jer 11:14Jer 14:11-12Isa 1:15Jer 15:1Ezk 14:14-20Exo 32:10Jer 18:20Mic 3:4 Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? Ezk 14:23Ezk 8:6-18Jer 6:27 The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger. Jer 19:13Jer 44:17-191Co 10:221Ki 14:91Ki 16:2Deu 32:16Deu 32:21Deu 32:37-38 But am I the One they are provoking? declares the LORD. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame? 1Co 10:22Dan 9:7-8Ezk 8:17-18Jer 2:19Jer 20:11Jer 9:19Job 35:6Deu 32:16
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished. Jer 42:18Isa 42:25Jer 17:27Lam 2:3-5Ezk 22:22Jer 44:6Lam 4:11Nam 1:6
This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves! Hos 8:13Jer 6:20Amo 5:21-23Isa 1:11-15 For when I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt, I did not merely command them about burnt offerings and sacrifices, Hos 6:61Sa 15:22Psa 51:16-17Mat 9:13Psa 40:6Psa 50:8-17Mrk 12:33 but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you. Exo 15:26Deu 5:33Exo 19:5-6Heb 5:9Jer 42:6Deu 6:3Deu 13:4Deu 30:20
Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward. Psa 81:11-12Deu 29:19Jer 7:26Jer 8:5Ezk 20:13Jer 32:33Exo 32:7-8Ezk 20:21 From the day your fathers came out of the land of Egypt until this day, I have sent you all My servants the prophets again and again. 3 2Ch 36:15Jer 25:4Neh 9:26Ezk 2:3Jer 7:13Luk 20:10-12Mat 21:34-361Sa 8:7-8 Yet they would not listen to Me or incline their ear, but they stiffened their necks and did more evil than their fathers. Jer 16:122Ch 30:8Jer 17:23Jer 19:15Jer 7:24Mat 23:322Ch 33:102Ki 17:14
When you tell them all these things, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer. Isa 50:2Isa 65:12Jer 1:7Jer 26:2Zec 7:13Act 20:27Ezk 2:4-7Ezk 3:17-18 Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips. Isa 59:14-15Isa 1:4-5Jer 32:33Pro 1:7Zep 3:2Hos 4:1Jer 2:30Jer 5:1 Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’ Job 1:20Jer 6:30Mic 1:16Jer 16:62Ki 17:20Act 2:40Deu 32:5Ezk 19:1
The Valley of Slaughter
For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it. Ezk 7:20Jer 32:34Dan 9:272Ch 33:4-52Ch 33:72Ki 21:42Ki 21:72Ch 33:15 They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind. 2Ki 23:102Ki 17:17Jer 32:35Lev 18:212Ch 28:3Deu 12:31Ezk 16:20Jer 19:5-6
So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room. Jer 19:11Jer 19:62Ki 23:10Ezk 6:5-7Jer 19:13Jer 7:31Lev 26:30 The corpses of this people will become food for the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to scare them away. Deu 28:26Jer 12:9Rev 19:17-18Ezk 39:18-20Ezk 39:4Jer 16:4Jer 19:7Jer 22:19
I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.” Ezk 26:13Hos 2:11Rev 18:23Isa 1:7Isa 24:7-8Jer 25:10Lev 26:33Isa 3:26