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A den of robbers
Jeremiah stood at the temple gate and asked whether the house that bore God's name had become a den of robbers. Jesus used his words in the same courts six centuries later.
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New TestamentMark 11:17Open this recordRead the earlier witness
Has this house, which bears my Name, become a den of robbers to you? But I have been watching! declares the Lord. Read the later witness
And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’” Why FaithGraph draws this line
Mark 11:17 quotes Jeremiah 7:11.
The phrase den of robbers comes from Jeremiah's temple sermon, which warned that the house bearing God's name would not protect a corrupt people.
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