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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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Old TestamentJeremiah 7:11Open this record
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New TestamentMark 11:17Open this record

Read 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.
Jeremiah 7:11 New International Version (NIV)The Holy Bible, New International Version® NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by Permission of Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide.

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.’”
Mark 11:17 New International Version (NIV)The Holy Bible, New International Version® NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by Permission of Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide.

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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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