Jeremiah 17:12 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹²A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.

Jeremiah 17:12 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 96:6
Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
Jeremiah 3:17
At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
Ezekiel 43:7
And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.
Jeremiah 14:21
Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
Ezekiel 1:26
And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-18)

Here, as often before, we have the prophet retired for private meditation, and alone with God. Those ministers that would have comfort in their work must be much so. In his converse here with God and his own heart he takes the liberty which devout souls sometimes use in their soliloquies, to pass from one thing to another, without tying themselves too strictly to the laws of method and coherence.…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 12)

12. throne--the temple of Jerusalem, the throne of Jehovah. Having condemned false objects of trust, “high places for sin” (Jr 17:3), and an “arm of flesh,” he next sets forth Jehovah, and His temple, which was ever open to the Jews, as the true object of confidence, and sanctuary to flee to. Henderson makes Jehovah, in Jr 17:13, the subject, and this verse predicate, “A throne of glory, high from…