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Nova Vulgata
Isaiæ 7:11
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Pete tibi signum a Domino Deo tuo, in profundum inferni, sive in excelsum supra.
Numquid ergo spelunca latronum facta est domus ista,
in qua invocatum est nomen meum in oculis vestris?
Ego, ego sum: ego vidi, dicit Dominus.
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
this: 2 Chronicles 6:33, Isaiah 56:7, Matthew 21:13, Mark 11:17, Luke 19:45, Luke 19:46, John 2:16
even: Jeremiah 2:34, Jeremiah 16:16, Jeremiah 16:17, Jeremiah 23:24, Hebrews 4:13, Revelation 2:18, Revelation 2:19
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 9:13 - I have 1 Samuel 15:19 - fly upon Proverbs 21:27 - sacrifice Jeremiah 7:10 - which is called Jeremiah 23:11 - in Jeremiah 34:15 - which is called by my name Zechariah 11:3 - for their Luke 21:6 - there 1 Corinthians 6:10 - thieves
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Is this house, which is called by my name,.... Meaning the temple:
become a den of robbers in your eyes? or do you look upon it, and make use of it, as thieves do of dens; who, when they have robbed and murdered men, betake themselves to them, not only to share their spoil, but to hide themselves? just so those thieves, murderers adulterers, perjurers, and idolaters, after they had committed such gross enormities, came into the temple and offered sacrifices; thinking hereby to cover their sins, and expiate the guilt of them, and to be looked upon as good men, and true worshippers of God, when they were no better than thieves and robbers; and such were the Pharisees in Christ's time, and such was the temple as made by them; see Matthew 21:13:
behold, even I have seen it, saith the Lord; not only all the abominations committed by them, but the use they made of the temple and the worship of it; all the hypocrisy of their hearts, and the inward thoughts of them, and their views and intentions in their offerings and sacrifices; as well as what ruin and destruction the Lord designed to bring shortly upon them, and upon that house which they had made a den of robbers; as follows:
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Robbers - literally, tearers, those who rob with violence. The temple was the place which sheltered them. It had been consecrated to God. Now that it harbors miscreants, must it not as inevitably be destroyed as a den of robbers would be by any righteous ruler?