Jeremiah 7:9

KJV

Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;

— Jeremiah 7:9, King James Version
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Study Note

Jeremiah's indictment lists violations of the Decalogue's social commandments (stealing, murder, adultery, false swearing) alongside explicit polytheism (burning incense to Baal, following other gods), yoking Sinai's moral and cultic stipulations together as a unified covenantal package. The verb forms suggest habitual action rather than isolated transgression, depicting Judah's corruption as systemic social-religious breakdown rather than episodic failure. The following verse's rhetorical question — 'and come and stand before me in this house?' — makes the Temple the site of cognitive dissonance: the same community that violates covenant uses the Temple as a 'den of robbers' (Jeremiah 7:11), a phrase Jesus directly cites in his own Temple action (Mark 11:17). The passage is thus the explicit source text for Jesus' most dramatic prophetic sign-act.

Outras Traduções

ASV

Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods that ye have not known,

YLT

Stealing, murdering, and committing adultery, And swearing to falsehood, and giving perfume to Baal, And going after other gods whom ye knew not.

BBE

Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;

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