Jeremiah 7:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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.

My place which was in Shiloh - God caused His tabernacle to be set up in Shiloh in Joshua's days (Joshua 18:1; Judges 18:31) In Eli's time God gave the ark which had beet at Shiloh into the hands of the Philistines (Psalms 78:56-61, "They provoked Him to anger with their high places, and moved Him to jealousy with their graven images ... so that He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which He placed among men"). Shiloh was situated between Bethel and Shechem in Ephraim.

At the first - implying that Shiloh exceeded the Jewish temple in antiquity. But God's favour is not tied down to localities (Acts 7:48).

What I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel. Israel was God's people, yet He spared it not when rebellious: neither will He spare Judah, now that it rebels, though heretofore it has been His people.

Jeremiah 7:12

12 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.