Jeremiah 26:6
Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
Study Note
Study Note
The threat to make the temple 'like Shiloh' invokes Israel's traumatic memory of the destruction of the sanctuary at Shiloh, where the ark was captured by the Philistines (1 Samuel 4), a site that Psalm 78:60 describes as abandoned by God. Jeremiah's temple sermon (chapters 7 and 26) was deeply subversive: it challenged the popular theology that God would unconditionally protect Jerusalem simply because his temple stood there. The historical parallel was used to argue that covenant faithfulness, not institutional religion, was the true basis of divine protection — a message whose transmission nearly cost Jeremiah his life (26:7–19).
Other Translations
then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
Then I have given up this house as Shiloh, and this city I give up for a reviling to all nations of the earth.'
Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this town a curse to all the nations of the earth.
Cross References
And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the …
And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a …
And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his …
And his daughter in law, Phinehas’ wife, was with child, near to be delivered: and when she heard the tidings …
And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: for the ark of God is taken.
Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against …
So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord God shall slay thee, and …