John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"therefore will I do unto the house which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh." — Jeremiah 7:14 (ASV)
Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name
The temple, as in (Jeremiah 7:11), for though it was called by his name, and his name was called upon in it, yet this could not secure it from desolation; for so the name of the Lord was set in the tabernacle at Shiloh, and yet he forsook it through the wickedness of the people:
wherein you trust;
They trusted in the sacrifices there offered up, and the service there performed; in the holiness of the place, and because it was the residence of the divine Majesty; wherefore they thought this would be a protection and defence of them; and this was trusting in lying words, as in (Jeremiah 7:4):
and unto the place which I gave unto you and your fathers;
Meaning either Jerusalem; and so the Syriac version renders it, "and to the city"; or the whole land of Judea, as in (Jeremiah 7:7):
As I have done to Shiloh; (See Gill on Jeremiah 7:12).