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In this chapter, God directed Jeremiah to position himself on a specific site on the Temple Mount and to address all those who passed him on their way in, saying: \u201cMend your ways and your actions, and I will let you dwell in this place\u201d (3). He also added a word of caution: \u201cDon\u2019t put your trust in illusions and say, \u2018The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord are these [buildings]\u2019\u201d (4).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Why the threefold repetition?<\/span><\/p>\n

Rashi, relying on the Aramaic Targum, connected it to the three annual pilgrimage festivals, and was followed in this interpretation by his younger colleague Yosef Kara. Radak, however, on the authority of his father, Yosef, identified it with three specific chambers in the Temple: the outermost (\u2018<\/em><\/span>ulam<\/span><\/em>), the middle (<\/span>heikhal<\/span><\/em>), and the innermost (<\/span>d\u2019vir<\/span><\/em>). Shadal concurred in Radak\u2019s identification, adding, in the name of Ludovico, a Christian exegete, that it is conceivable that as Jeremiah referred to each of the three halls, he pointed to it with his finger.<\/span><\/p>\n

These interpretations to v.4 link up with vs.10-11, in which the prophet denounced the people who thought the Temple would provide them with sanctuary from the enemy and who said: \u201cWe are safe\u2014to do all these abhorrent things.\u201d He asked them, rhetorically, \u201cDo you consider this House, which bears My name, to be a den of thieves? As for Me, I have been watching\u2014declares the Lord.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

What had God been watching? The earlier exegetes assumed that Jeremiah was simply reporting to the people that while they may have been fooling themselves about the security offered by the Temple\u2014they were not fooling Him; He \u201csaw\u201d through them. Shadal,* however, saw in it something more consequential:<\/span><\/p>\n

If it appears to be a den of thieves to you, then I, too, regard it as such. Therefore, I no longer consider it sacred and I will give it over into the hands of the enemy. It will not provide you with cover.<\/span><\/p>\n

*For an explanation of our objectives in studying Shadal\u2019s commentary, <\/span>see our introduction.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":69442,"id":69442,"title":"jer7-temple3","filename":"jer7-temple3.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-temple3.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-temple-the-temple-the-temple\/jer7-temple3\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"jer7-temple3","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":69441,"date":"2020-02-02 19:28:29","modified":"2023-12-24 21:10:09","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1278,"height":314,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-temple3-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-temple3-300x74.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":74,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-temple3-768x189.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":189,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-temple3-1024x252.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":252,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-temple3.jpg","1536x1536-width":1278,"1536x1536-height":314,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-temple3.jpg","2048x2048-width":1278,"2048x2048-height":314,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-temple3-1200x295.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":295,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/jer7-temple3.jpg","home_baner-width":1278,"home_baner-height":314}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"The Temple! 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