Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.

Bible References

All the chief

2 Kings 16:10
King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria. When he saw the altar that was in Damascus, King Ahaz sent a model of the altar and complete plans for its construction to Uriah the priest.
Ezra 9:7
Our guilt has been terrible from the days of our fathers until the present. Because of our iniquities we have been handed over, along with our kings and priests, to the surrounding kings, and to the sword, captivity, plundering, and open shame, as it is today.
Jeremiah 5:5
I will go to the powerful
and speak to them.
Surely they know the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.
However, these also had broken the yoke
and torn off the chains.
Jeremiah 37:13
But when he was at the Benjamin Gate, an officer of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, son of Hananiah, and he apprehended Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans.”
Jeremiah 38:4
The officials then said to the king, “This man ought to die, because he is weakening the morale of the warriors who remain in this city and of all the people by speaking to them in this way. This man is not seeking the well-being of this people, but disaster.”
Ezekiel 22:6
“Look, every prince of Israel within you has used his strength to shed blood.
Daniel 9:6
We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, leaders, fathers, and all the people of the land.
Micah 3:1
Then I said, “Now listen, leaders of Jacob,
you rulers of the house of Israel.
Aren’t you supposed to know what is just?
Micah 7:2
Godly people have vanished from the land;
there is no one upright among the people.
All of them wait in ambush to shed blood;
they hunt each other with a net.
Zephaniah 3:3
The princes within her are roaring lions;
her judges are wolves of the night,
which leave nothing for the morning.

Very much

2 Chronicles 28:3
He burned incense in the Valley of Hinnom and burned his children in the fire, imitating the detestable practices of the nations the Lord had dispossessed before the Israelites.
2 Chronicles 33:9
So Manasseh caused Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to stray so that they did worse evil than the nations the Lord had destroyed before the Israelites.

Polluted

2 Chronicles 33:4
He built altars in the Lord’s temple, where Yahweh had said, “Jerusalem is where My name will remain forever.”
Ezekiel 8:5
The Lord said to me, “Son of man, look toward the north.” I looked to the north, and there was this offensive statue north of the altar gate, at the entrance.

General references

Leviticus 18:27
For the men who were in the land prior to you have committed all these detestable things, and the land has become defiled.
Isaiah 5:4
What more could I have done for My vineyard
than I did?
Why, when I expected a yield of good grapes,
did it yield worthless grapes?
Ezekiel 22:24
“Son of man, say to her: You are a land that has not been cleansed, that has not received rain in the day of indignation.

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