Jeremiah 7:11

Is this house, which is called by my name,.... Meaning the temple:

become a den of robbers in your eyes? or do you look upon it, and make use of it, as thieves do of dens; who, when they have robbed…

Robbers - literally, tearers, those who rob with violence. The temple was the place which sheltered them. It had been consecrated to God. Now that it harbors miscreants, must it not as inevitably be…

These verses begin another sermon, which is continued in this and the two following chapters, much to the same effect with those before, to reason them to repentance. Observe,

I. The orders given to…

den of robbers a place of retreat in the intervals between acts of violence. Caves in Palestine were often used thus. This v. is alluded to in Mat 21:13, and the parallel passages (Mar 11:17 and Luk…