34But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. …
For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD.
And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name. …
And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 26-44)We have here God’s answer to Jeremiah’s prayer, designed to quiet his mind and make him easy; and it is a full discovery of the purposes of God’s wrath against the present generation and the purposes of his grace concerning the future generations. Jeremiah knew not how to sing both of mercy and judgment , but God here teaches to sing unto him of both. When we know not how to reconcile one word of…
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