Jeremias 7:8

"Behold, ye trust in lying words that cannot profit. Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods that ye have not known, and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that ye may do all these abominations? Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, saith Jehovah."

The sins enumerated here constituted violations of the Decalogue as given in Exodus and Deuteronomy. The specific commandments broken were the 1st, 2nd, 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th, with the necessary inference that the 10th also was broken, stealing and adultery both being a direct result of the covetousness forbidden in the last commandment. As Green noted, "This amounted to a near-total breach of the covenant stipulations." [9]

"Here is further and conclusive evidence of Jeremiah's deep anchorage in the Mosaic faith."[10]

"We are delivered ..." (Jeremiah 7:10). The Jews actually believed that merely because they frequented the temple and brought their sacrifices as usual, that, they were fully protected in the commission of every crime in the catalogue, "all of this on the mere grounds of their external presentation of themselves before God at the place called by his name."[11] They deluded themselves into thinking they were safe no matter what they did.

"Behold, I, even I have seen it, saith Jehovah ..." (Jeremiah 7:11). Anchor Bible suggests a paraphrase here: "God says, Look! I'm not blind! Of course, I've seen it!"[12]

"Is this house ... become a den of robbers ..." (Jeremiah 7:11)? These very words were spoken by Christ himself as a solemn indictment of the temple during his personal ministry, "Ye made it (the temple) a den of robbers" (Matthew 21:13). This is a reference to the blasphemous manner in which the Jews used that temple. The Hebrew word here "actually means a robber's `cave,' "[13] The figure is that of a den, or cave, or some other supposedly safe and secure place to which robbers retired after each of their crimes. What a terrible misuse of holy religion was this abuse by the Jews.