Jeremiah 7:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh, where I caused my name to dwell at the first, and see what I did to it for the wickedness of my people Israel.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י לְכוּ־נָ֗א אֶל־מְקוֹמִי֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּשִׁיל֔וֹ אֲשֶׁ֨ר שִׁכַּ֧נְתִּֽי שְׁמִ֛י שָׁ֖ם בָּרִֽאשׁוֹנָ֑ה וּרְאוּ֙ אֵ֣ת אֲשֶׁר־עָשִׂ֣יתִי ל֔וֹ מִפְּנֵ֕י רָעַ֖ת עַמִּ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

Transliteration

For lĕkû-nāʾ to-my-mĕqômî which in-Šîlô which šikkantî my-šĕmî there at-the-rîʾšônāh û-rĕʾû ʾēt which-ʿāśîtî to-it from-pĕnê rāʿat ʿammî Yiśrāʾēl

Grammar Details

*lĕkû*: Qal imperative, masculine plural - go
*nāʾ*: particle - please/now
*mĕqômî*: noun, masculine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my place
*Šîlô*: proper noun - Shiloh
*šikkantî*: Piel perfect, 1st singular - I caused to dwell
*šĕmî*: noun, masculine singular construct with 1st singular suffix - my name
*rîʾšônāh*: definite adjective, feminine singular - first/beginning
*û*: conjunction - and
*rĕʾû*: Qal imperative, masculine plural - see
*ʾēt*: direct object marker
*ʿāśîtî*: Qal perfect, 1st singular - I did/made
*pĕnê*: construct noun, masculine plural - face of
*rāʿat*: construct noun, feminine singular - evil of
*ʿammî*: noun, masculine singular construct with 1st singular suffix - my people
*Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel

Word Meanings

*lĕkû-nāʾ*: go now/go please
*mĕqômî*: my place/my location/my site
*šikkantî*: I caused to dwell/I established/I placed
*rîʾšônāh*: first/beginning/former time
*rĕʾû*: see/look/observe
*ʿāśîtî*: I did/I made/I performed
*pĕnê rāʿat*: because of the evil/in the face of wickedness
*ʿammî*: my people/my nation

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Referenced Verses

1 Sam 4:10-11 : 10 And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man to his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen. 11 And the ark of God was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were slain.
1 Sam 4:22 : 22 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel; for the ark of God is taken.
Ps 78:60-64 : 60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent which he placed among men; 61 And delivered his strength into captivity, And his glory into the adversary's hand. 62 He gave his people over also unto the sword, And was wroth with his inheritance. 63 Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song. 64 Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation.
Jer 26:6 : 6 then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
Josh 18:1 : 1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there: and the land was subdued before them.
Judg 18:31 : 31 So they set them up Micah's graven image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
1 Sam 1:3 : 3 And this man went up out of his city from year to year to worship and to sacrifice unto Jehovah of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests unto Jehovah, were there.
1 Sam 4:3-4 : 3 And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath Jehovah smitten us to-day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of Shiloh unto us, that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies. 4 So the people sent to Shiloh; and they brought from thence the ark of the covenant of Jehovah of hosts, who sitteth [above] the cherubim: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
Deut 12:11 : 11 then it shall come to pass that to the place which Jehovah your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, thither shall ye bring all that I command you: your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto Jehovah.
Deut 12:5 : 5 But unto the place which Jehovah your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come;

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