Jeremiah 41:5

The Passion Translation

eighty men arrived from the towns of Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria. They were on their way to the temple to offer gifts of grain and incense to Yahweh. They had shaved off their beards, torn their clothes, and cut themselves because they were mourning.

Cross References

Joshua 18:1

After the Israelites had conquered the land, all of them gathered at Shiloh, and the priests set up the tabernacle.

Judges 9:1

Abimelech son of Baal-Fighter (or Gideon) went to his mother’s brothers and to the rest of her clan in Shechem and said to them,

Genesis 33:18

Jacob’s journey home from Paddan-Aram finally brought him safe and sound to the Canaanite city of Shechem, where he camped just outside of the city.

Isaiah 15:2

The people of Dibon went to their temple to weep; they went up to their high places to lament. Moab wails with sorrow over what happened to Mount Nebo and Mount Medeba. Humiliated, every head is shaved bald and every beard cut off.

Jeremiah 7:14

So I will do to this temple what I did before in Shiloh. You have put your trust in this temple, which bears my name, but I will destroy this very sanctuary that I gave to you and your ancestors.

Jeremiah 7:12

“ ‘Just go to the place where my sanctuary once stood in Shiloh, where I first made a dwelling place for my name. And when you see its rubble, understand what I did in response to the wickedness of the people of Israel.

Psalm 102:14

For your servants weep in sympathy over Zion’s ruins and feel love for her every stone.

Joshua 24:32

They buried Joseph’s bones, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, at Shechem, in the tract of land that Jacob bought for a hundred pieces of silver from the children of Hamor, Shechem’s father. So the land became the inheritance of Joseph’s descendants.

Genesis 34:2

Now Hamor, the tribal chief of the Hivites, had a son named Shechem, who was the prince. When he saw how attractive Dinah was, he seized her and sexually assaulted her.

Genesis 37:12

One day, when his brothers had gone to Shechem to care for their father’s flock,

Judges 18:31

So they enshrined the idol Micah had made, and they made it their own even though the proper house of God stood at Shiloh.

Psalm 78:60

God walked away from them and left his dwelling place at Shiloh, abandoning the place where he had lived among them,

Jeremiah 16:6

The least and the greatest alike will die in this land. They will not be buried. No one will mourn for them, cut themselves, or shave their heads to show their grief.

Jeremiah 41:4

The very next day, before anyone knew of it,

Jeremiah 47:5

The people of Gaza will mourn with great sorrow, for Ashkelon has been destroyed. You descendants of the giants, how long will you slash yourselves?

Jeremiah 48:37

Every head is shaved, and every beard is cut off as a sign of mourning. And around the waist is sackcloth, on all the hands are gashes.