Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 7:12

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

A place that did belong to the Tribe of Ephraim, Psal. 78.60. comp. 61. The situation whereof see Iudg. 21.19. and called Gods house, as the Temple is 1 Sam. 1.3, 7. he sends them hither for an Example, which had the same priviledges and holiness with the Temple, not to go thither locally, but to cast their thoughts back, and consider of it, that they might know, that Gods presence is not tyed to places, Act. 7.48.

Where I did at first give you the Token, and pledges of my presence among you, when you first entred into the pleasant Land, noting the antiquity of Shiloh before the Temple.

i. e. He utterly forsook it, he did not only deliver up his people into the Philistines hands, but the Ark also, the token of his Presence, which never returned to Shil[illegible: 1 letter]h more, and afterwards delivered the 10 tribes wherein Shiloh was scituate, into Captivity to the Assyrian, see ver. 14, 15. wherein he upbraids them for their folly in thinking that the Ark or Altar in the Temple should any more priviledge them than it did Shiloh.

He gives them the reason of it in these words the wickedness of his people, and chiefly the Priests, Hophni and Phineas, Eli's Sons, 1 Sam. 2.12. &c. and why should they think to escape, who did equal, if not exceed them.

Marginal references: Josh. 18.1. Judg. 18.31.