therefore, I will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave you and your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.This would have been truly chilling to the Israelites. I don't know what happened to Shiloh, but from how it's described I'm guessing it was devastated, perhaps burned. Now God is saying He's at least willing to do the same thing to the Temple?
This, above all, shows that God is not connected to physical objects. We think of the Temple as the place where God "dwelled" or "lived," where He met man. But it was merely a building that He chose to use, not something He needed to communicate or inhabit. So are all things to Him; He can use any, but needs none.
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