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Jeremiah 26:6

What does Jeremiah 26:6 mean?

A plain-English look at Jeremiah 26:6 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this town a curse to all the nations of the earth.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Then I have given up this house as Shiloh, and this city I give up for a reviling to all nations of the earth.'

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

I will make this house like Silo: and I will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

— then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

Context

v.5to hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send unto you, even rising up early and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;

v.6This passage

v.7And the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Jehovah.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 7:12

    But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

  • Joshua 18:1

    And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there: and the land was subdued before them.

  • Psalms 78:60

    So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men;

  • Jeremiah 29:22

    and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captives of Judah that are in Babylon, saying, Jehovah make thee like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;

  • Jeremiah 25:18

    to wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;

  • Jeremiah 44:8

    in that ye provoke me unto anger with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye are gone to sojourn; that ye may be cut off, and that ye may be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?

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