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.’”
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- WEB then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.”’”
- KJV Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
- NKJV then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.” ’ ”
- NASB then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.” ’ ”
- NLT 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.’”
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Quick answer
If Judah will not repent, God will reduce His own temple to ruins like Shiloh and make Jerusalem a byword among the nations. Sacred privilege is no shield against unrepentant sin.
Overview
Shiloh, the earlier home of the tabernacle, had been abandoned and destroyed (Psalm 78:60), so the comparison shatters the false confidence that the temple guaranteed safety. God will not be presumed upon; His presence does not protect rebellion. This warning sets the stage for the dramatic confrontation that follows. It anticipates how Jesus too foretold the temple's destruction (Matthew 24:2), showing that true security is found in covenant faithfulness, not buildings.
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- 2 Kgs 22:19because your heart was tender and you humbled yourself before the LORD when you heard what I spoke against this place and against its people, that they would become a desolation and a curse, and because you have torn your clothes and wept before Me, I have heard you,’ declares the LORD.
- Jer 24:9I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.
- Jer 25:18to make them a ruin, an object of horror and contempt and cursing, as they are to this day—Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials;
- Isa 65:15You will leave behind your name as a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord GOD will slay you; but to His servants He will give another name.
- Jer 7:12–14But 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.
- Ps 78:60–64He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent He had pitched among men.
- Dan 9:11All Israel has transgressed Your law and turned away, refusing to obey Your voice; so the oath and the curse written in the Law of Moses the servant of God has been poured out on us, because we have sinned against You.
- 1 Sam 4:10–12So 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.
- 1 Sam 4:19–22Now Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news of the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth, for her labor pains overtook her.
- Jer 29:22Because of them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!’
- Jer 44:8–12Why are you provoking Me to anger by the work of your hands by burning incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, where you have gone to reside? As a result, you will be cut off and will become an object of cursing and reproach among all the nations of the earth.
- Josh 18:1Then the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there. And though the land was subdued before them,
- Mal 4:6And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Otherwise, I will come and strike the land with a curse.”
- Jer 42:18For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Just as My anger and wrath were poured out on the residents of Jerusalem, so will My wrath be poured out on you if you go to Egypt. You will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and disgrace, and you will never see this place again.’
- Jer 44:22So the LORD could no longer endure the evil deeds and detestable acts you committed, and your land became a desolation, a horror, and an object of cursing, without inhabitant, as it is this day.
- Isa 43:28So I will disgrace the princes of your sanctuary, and I will devote Jacob to destruction and Israel to reproach.”
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