Study it in the app“Why have you prophesied in the name of YHWH, saying, ‘Like Shiloh this house will be, and this city will be laid waste, without inhabitant’?” And all the people gathered around Jeremiah in the house of YHWH.”
Whyמַדּוּעַhave you prophesiedנִבֵּיתָin the nameבְשֵׁםof YHWH,יְהוָהsaying,לֵאמֹר‘Like Shilohכְּשִׁלוֹthis houseהַבַּיִת הַזֶּהwill be,יִהְיֶהand this cityוְהָעִיר הַזֹּאתwill be laid waste,תֶּחֱרַבwithoutמֵאֵיןinhabitant’?”יוֹשֵׁבAnd allוַ כָּלthe peopleהָעָםgatheredיִּקָּהֵלaround Jeremiahאֶל יִרְמְיָהוּin the houseבְּבֵיתof YHWH.יְהוָה
why?
Why? For what reason?
Where else “madua” appearsprophesy
To speak what God's spirit gives to say.
Where else “nibeta” appearsname of YHWH
YHWH's name: himself, as he makes himself known.
Where else “shem” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appearsShiloh
See it on the mapWhere else “shilo” appearstemple
The temple: "the house of YHWH".
Where else “bayit” appearsbe
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “yihye” appearscity
A settled place protected by a wall, with a gate and houses.
Where else “ir” appearslie in ruins
To be left in ruins.
Where else “techerav” appearsdwell
To make one's home in a place.
Where else “yoshev” appearscrowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appearsassemble
Assemble people, call them together; gather.
Where else “yikahel” appearsJeremiah
Jeremiah: a name meaning "YHWH raises up" or "YHWH exalts," borne by several men: best known is the prophet, son of Hilkiah, from Anathoth (Jeremiah 1:1); in 2 Kings 23:31 and 24:18 another Jeremiah, of Libnah, grandfather of two kings.
Where else “yirmyahu” appearsShiloh
Today: Khirbet Seilun (Tel Shiloh), West Bank
A town in the hills of Ephraim, about 19 miles (30 km) north of Jerusalem.
The tabernacle stood there in the days of Joshua and Eli (Josh 18:1; 1 Sam 1:3). Hannah prayed there, and Samuel was born (1 Sam 1:9-20).
8And it happened, when Jeremiah finished speaking all that YHWH had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You shall surely die!
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10And the princes of Judah heard these things, and they came up from the house of the king to the house of YHWH, and sat at the entrance of the gate of YHWH, the New Gate.
