Jeremiah 12:7 KJV
I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
Matthew Henry
- The heavy judgments to come upon the nationGod's people had been the dearly-beloved of his soul, precious in his sight, but they acted so, that he gave them up to their enemies. Many professing...
Thompson Chains
- Desolation (1)See the chain from Isaiah 1:8 · 12 links
- Wicked ForsakenSee the chain from Judges 16:20 · 11 links
- ReprobationSee the chain from Leviticus 26:17 · 7 links
Cross References
- Isaiah 2:6 Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
- Jeremiah 11:15 What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
- Psalms 78:59–60 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: …
- Hosea 9:15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
- Jeremiah 7:14 Therefore will I do unto this 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 have done to Shiloh.
- Jeremiah 7:29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
- Jeremiah 51:5 For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.
- Lamentations 2:1–22 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! …
- Ezekiel 7:20–21 As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them. …
- Ezekiel 24:21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.
- Joel 2:15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:
- Joel 3:2 I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.
- Luke 21:24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
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Topics
- Backsliders Backsliding of Israel
- God Love of, exemplified
- Jeremiah Over the desolation of God’s heritage
- War God uses, as a judgment
Timeline
- Timeline of the Bible629–588 BC · Jeremiah, in the days of Josiah, Jehoiakim, and Zedekiah
Strong’s Numbers
- I have forsaken עָזַב ʻâzab
- mine house בַּיִת bayith
- I have left נָטַשׁ nâṭash
- mine heritage נַחֲלָה nachălâh
- I have given נָתַן nâthan
- the dearly beloved יְדִדוּת yᵉdidûwth
- of my soul נֶפֶשׁ nephesh
- into the hand כַּף kaph
- of her enemies אֹיֵב ʼôyêb
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