2 Chronicles 36:14

The Decline Of Judah

¹³ Zedekiah also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar made Zedekiah swear an oath of allegiance to him in God's name. But Zedekiah became so stubborn and so impossible to deal with that he refused to turn back to Jehovah the God of Israel. ¹⁴ Furthermore, all the officials of the priests and the people were very unfaithful following all the abominations of the nations; and they defiled the house of the Lord which He had sanctified in Jerusalem. ¹⁵ Jehovah the God of their ancestors repeatedly sent messages through his prophets because he wanted to spare his people and his dwelling place.

House of the Lord

Temple of the Lord

Defile The House

Jehovah

Jerusalem

Judah

Sin

2 Kings 16:10-16

Then King Ahaz went to Damascus for a meeting with Tiglathpileser king of Assyria. There he saw the altar at Damascus. King Ahaz sent a drawing of the altar, giving the design of it and all the details of its structure to Urijah the priest.

2 Chronicles 28:3

He burned sacrifices in the valley of Ben Hinnom. He sacrificed his son by burning him alive. This was one of the disgusting things done by the nations that Jehovah had driven out from the land Israel possessed.

2 Chronicles 33:4-7

He built altars in Jehovah's Temple, of which Jehovah said: My name will be in Jerusalem from generation to generation.

2 Chronicles 33:9

Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem so that they did more evil things than the nations that Jehovah destroyed when the Israelites arrived in the land.

Ezra 9:7

From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners. Because of our sins, the kings of the lands captured us. We were given to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day.

Jeremiah 5:5

I will go to the great men (leaders) and talk with them. Surely they know what their God requires, what Jehovah wants them to do. But all of them have rejected Jehovah's authority and refuse to obey him.

Jeremiah 37:13-15

When he came to Benjamin Gate, the captain of the guard there, whose name was Irijah, son of Shelemiah and grandson of Hananiah, arrested the prophet Jeremiah. He said: You are deserting to the Babylonians!

Jeremiah 38:4

The officials went to the king and said: This man must be put to death. By talking like this he is making the soldiers in the city lose their courage. He is doing the same thing to everyone else left in the city. He is not trying to help the people. He only wants to hurt them.

Ezekiel 8:5-16

God said to me: Son of man, look toward the north. So I looked toward the north. There in the entrance to the north gate beside the altar, I saw the idol that provokes jealousy and stirs up God's anger.

Ezekiel 22:6

See how all the princes of Israel who live in you have used their power to shed blood (murder people).

Ezekiel 22:26-28

Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the profane. They have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean. They hide their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

Daniel 9:6

We have not listened to your servants the prophets who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.

Daniel 9:8

O Jehovah, to us belongs shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.

Micah 3:1-4

I said: Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: is it not your responsibility to know justice?

Micah 3:9-11

Please hear this you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel. You who abhor justice, and pervert honesty!

Micah 7:2

The godly (loyal) (holy) man has perished from the earth. There is none upright among men! They all lie in wait for blood. Every man hunts his own brother with a net.

Zephaniah 3:3-4

Her princes (rulers) within her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing till the morning.