Ezekiel 7:20
His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore I make it an unclean thing to them.
Ezekiel 24:21
'Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the yearning of your soul, and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.
Jeremiah 7:30
"For the sons of Judah have done evil in my sight, declares the LORD. They have set their detestable things in the house that is called by my name, to defile it.
Isaiah 64:11
Our holy and beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
Ezekiel 8:7-10
And he brought me to the entrance of the court, and when I looked, behold, there was a hole in the wall.
Ezekiel 8:15-16
Then he said to me, "Have you seen this, O son of man? You will see still greater abominations than these."
Ezekiel 9:7
Then he said to them, "Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out." So they went out and struck in the city.
2 Kings 21:4
And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem will I put my name."
2 Kings 21:7
And the carved image of Asherah that he had made he set in the house of which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.
2 Kings 23:11-12
And he removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance to the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the chamberlain, which was in the precincts. And he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
1 Chronicles 29:1-2
And David the king said to all the assembly, "Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is young and inexperienced, and the work is great, for the palace will not be for man but for the LORD God.
2 Chronicles 2:9
to prepare timber for me in abundance, for the house I am to build will be great and wonderful.
2 Chronicles 3:1-17
Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Chronicles 33:4-7
And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem shall my name be forever."
2 Chronicles 36:14
All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the LORD that he had made holy in Jerusalem.
Ezra 3:12
But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' houses, old men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted aloud for joy,
Psalm 48:2
beautiful in elevation, is the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion, in the far north, the city of the great King.
Psalm 50:2
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
Psalm 87:2-3
the LORDloves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
Jeremiah 7:14
therefore I will do to the house that is called by my name, and in which you trust, and to the place that I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
Lamentations 1:10
The enemy has stretched out his hands over all her precious things; for she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, those whom you forbade to enter your congregation.
Lamentations 2:1
How the Lord in his anger has set the daughter of Zion under a cloud! He has cast down from heaven to earth the splendor of Israel; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
Lamentations 2:7
The Lord has scorned his altar, disowned his sanctuary; he has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they raised a clamor in the house of the LORD as on the day of festival.
Ezekiel 5:11
Therefore, as I live, declares the Lord GOD, surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your abominations, therefore I will withdraw.My eye will not spare, and I will have no pity.
Ezekiel 7:22
I will turn my face from them, and they shall profane my treasured place. Robbers shall enter and profane it.
Haggai 2:3
'Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes?