Jeremiah 26:6
New International Version
then I will make this house like Shiloh and this city a curse among all the nations of the earth.’”

New Living Translation
then I will destroy this Temple as I destroyed Shiloh, the place where the Tabernacle was located. And I will make Jerusalem an object of cursing in every nation on earth.’”

English Standard Version
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.’”

Berean Standard Bible
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the earth.’ ”

King James Bible
Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

New King James Version
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.” ’ ”

New American Standard Bible
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.”’”

NASB 1995
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city I will make a curse to all the nations of the earth."’”

NASB 1977
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city I will make a curse to all the nations of the earth.”’”

Legacy Standard Bible
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city I will make a curse to all the nations of the earth.”’”

Amplified Bible
then I will make this house [the temple] like Shiloh, and I will make this city [subject to] the curse of all nations of the earth [because it will be so vile in their sight].”’”

Christian Standard Bible
I will make this temple like Shiloh. I will make this city an example for cursing for all the nations of the earth.’ ”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I will make this temple like Shiloh. I will make this city an object of cursing for all the nations of the earth.”

American Standard Version
then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

Contemporary English Version
I will destroy this temple, just as I destroyed the town of Shiloh. Then everyone on earth will use the name "Jerusalem" as a curse word.

English Revised Version
then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then I will do to this temple what I did to Shiloh. I will turn this city into something that will be cursed by all the nations on earth.'"

Good News Translation
If you continue to disobey, then I will do to this Temple what I did to Shiloh, and all the nations of the world will use the name of this city as a curse."

International Standard Version
then I'll make this house like Shiloh and make this city into a curse to all the nations of the earth.'"'"

Majority Standard Bible
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the earth.’”

NET Bible
If you do not obey me, then I will do to this temple what I did to Shiloh. And I will make this city an example to be used in curses by people from all the nations on the earth.'"

New Heart English Bible
then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.'"

Webster's Bible Translation
Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

World English Bible
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.’”
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
then I have given up this house as Shiloh, and this city I give up for a reviling to all nations of the earth.”

Young's Literal Translation
Then I have given up this house as Shiloh, and this city I give up for a reviling to all nations of the earth.'

Smith's Literal Translation
And I gave this house as Shiloh, and this city I will give for cursing to all the nations of the earth.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
I will make this house like Silo: and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

Catholic Public Domain Version
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city into a curse for all the nations of the earth.”

New American Bible
I will treat this house like Shiloh, and make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.

New Revised Standard Version
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
Then I will make this house like Shiloh and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
I shall make this house like Shiloh, and this city I shall give as a curse to all the nations of the Earth
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.'

Brenton Septuagint Translation
then will I make this house as Selo, and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of all the earth.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
A Warning to the Cities of Judah
5and if you do not listen to the words of My servants the prophets, whom I have sent you again and again even though you did not listen, 6then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the earth.’”

Cross References
2 Kings 21:12-15
this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah that the news will reverberate in the ears of all who hear it. / I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down. / So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. And they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies, ...

2 Chronicles 7:19-22
But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods, / then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples. / And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’ ...

Jeremiah 7:12-14
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. / And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but you would not answer, / 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.

1 Samuel 4:10-11
So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. The slaughter was very great—thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell. / The ark of God was captured, and Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, died.

Lamentations 2:7
The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.

Micah 3:12
Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.

Matthew 23:37-38
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! / Look, your house is left to you desolate.

Luke 13:34-35
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! / Look, your house is left to you desolate. And I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”

1 Kings 9:6-9
But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and worship other gods, / then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples. / And when this temple has become a heap of rubble, all who pass by it will be appalled and will hiss and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’ ...

Isaiah 64:10-11
Your holy cities have become a wilderness. Zion has become a wasteland and Jerusalem a desolation. / Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.

Ezekiel 7:20-22
His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them. / And I will hand these things over as plunder to foreigners and loot to the wicked of the earth, who will defile them. / I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.

Hosea 9:15
All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.

Zechariah 11:6
For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king, who will devastate the land, and I will not deliver it from their hands.”

Matthew 21:41-43
“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time.” / Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’? / Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.

Mark 12:9
What then will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and kill those tenants and give the vineyard to others.


Treasury of Scripture

Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

will I.

Jeremiah 7:12-14
But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I set my name at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel…

1 Samuel 4:10-12,19-22
And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen…

Psalm 78:60-64
So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; …

a curse.

Jeremiah 24:9
And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them.

Jeremiah 25:18
To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;

Jeremiah 29:22
And of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captivity of Judah which are in Babylon, saying, The LORD make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;

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1. Jeremiah by promises and threats exhorts to repentance.
8. He is therefore apprehended,
10. and arraigned.
12. His apology.
16. He is quit in judgment, by the example of Micah,
20. and of Urijah,
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then I will make
The phrase "then I will make" indicates a divine action and intention. In Hebrew, the verb used here is "עָשָׂה" (asah), which means to do, make, or accomplish. This verb is often used in the context of God's creative and sovereign acts. It underscores the certainty and authority of God's pronouncement. The use of this verb reminds us of God's power to bring about His will, whether in creation or judgment.

this house
"This house" refers to the temple in Jerusalem, which was the center of Jewish worship and the symbol of God's presence among His people. The temple was a place of sacrifice, prayer, and divine encounter. However, it had become a place of false security for the people, who believed that its mere presence guaranteed God's favor, despite their disobedience. This serves as a warning against placing trust in religious symbols rather than in a genuine relationship with God.

like Shiloh
Shiloh was an ancient city in Israel where the tabernacle was located before the temple was built in Jerusalem. It was a significant religious center until it was destroyed, likely by the Philistines, as a result of Israel's unfaithfulness (1 Samuel 4). The mention of Shiloh serves as a historical reminder of the consequences of turning away from God. It is a sobering example of how even sacred places can be abandoned by God if His people persist in sin.

and I will make this city
The phrase "and I will make this city" extends the warning from the temple to the entire city of Jerusalem. The city, like the temple, was seen as a place of divine protection. However, God's judgment is not limited to religious institutions but encompasses the whole community when it turns away from Him. This highlights the comprehensive nature of divine judgment and the importance of communal faithfulness.

an object of cursing
"An object of cursing" indicates a reversal of fortune for Jerusalem. Instead of being a source of blessing, it would become a byword for disaster and divine judgment. In Hebrew, the word for curse is "קְלָלָה" (qelalah), which conveys the idea of being despised or brought low. This serves as a stark warning of the consequences of disobedience and the seriousness with which God views covenant unfaithfulness.

among all the nations of the earth
The phrase "among all the nations of the earth" emphasizes the global impact of Jerusalem's judgment. It would serve as a testimony to the nations of God's righteousness and the consequences of forsaking Him. This reflects the biblical theme that Israel was to be a light to the nations, but in disobedience, it becomes a warning instead. It underscores the universal scope of God's sovereignty and the call for all nations to recognize His authority.

(6) I will make this house like Shiloh.--See Notes on Jeremiah 7:14. The surprise and anger with which the announcement was received indicate that it was now heard for the first time, and so far confirms the view that we have here a summary of the discourse given in extenso, and probably edited, as it were, with many additions, in Jeremiah 7-10



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
then I will make
וְנָתַתִּ֛י (wə·nā·ṯat·tî)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

this
הַזֶּ֖ה (haz·zeh)
Article | Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

house
הַבַּ֥יִת (hab·ba·yiṯ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1004: A house

like Shiloh,
כְּשִׁלֹ֑ה (kə·ši·lōh)
Preposition-k | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 7887: Shiloh -- a city in Ephraim

and
וְאֶת־ (wə·’eṯ-)
Conjunctive waw | Direct object marker
Strong's 853: Untranslatable mark of the accusative case

I will make
אֶתֵּ֣ן (’et·tên)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

this
הַזֹּאת֙ (haz·zōṯ)
Article | Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,

city
הָעִ֤יר (hā·‘îr)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5892: Excitement

an object of cursing
לִקְלָלָ֔ה (liq·lā·lāh)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7045: Vilification

among all
לְכֹ֖ל (lə·ḵōl)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the nations
גּוֹיֵ֥י (gō·w·yê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts

of the earth.”
הָאָֽרֶץ׃ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land


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