Ezekiel 7:20
"As for his beautiful ornament, he set it up in majesty, but they made detestable images and loathsome idols. Therefore, I'll give them something loathsome
Ezekiel 24:21
"Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: "Look! I'm about to profane my sanctuary, the source of your proud strength, the desire of your eyes, and the object of your affection. Your sons and daughters, whom you've left behind, will die by the sword.
Jeremiah 7:30
"For the people of Judah have done evil in my eyes," declares the LORD. "They have put their detestable idols in the house that is called by my name in order to defile it.
Isaiah 64:11
Our holy Temple and our splendor, where our ancestors praised you, have become a conflagration of fire, and all our dearest places have become ruins.
Ezekiel 8:7-10
Then the Spirit brought me to the entrance of the court. As I watched, all of a sudden, there was a hole in the wall!
Ezekiel 8:15-16
Then he asked me, "Do you see this, Son of Man? You're about to see even more detestable practices than these."
Ezekiel 9:7
"Desecrate my Temple," he told them, "and fill its courtyard with the dead!" So they went out and began striking down people throughout the city.
2 Kings 21:4
He also built altars in the LORD's Temple, about which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem I will place my Name."
2 Kings 21:7
He also erected the carved image of Asherah that he had made inside the Temple about which the LORD had spoken to David and to his son Solomon, "I will put my Name forever in this Temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all of the tribes of Israel.
2 Kings 23:11-12
He abolished the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun at the entrance to the LORD's Temple, near the offices of Nathan-melech, the official, that were in the precincts. He also set fire to the chariots of the sun.
1 Chronicles 29:1-2
Then King David addressed the entire assembly: "My son Solomon, the one whom God alone has chosen, is still young and inexperienced, and the task is great, since this structure will be a citadel to the LORD God and not for human beings.
2 Chronicles 2:9
to prepare an abundant amount of timber for me, because the Temple that I'm building is to be great and awesome.
2 Chronicles 3:1-17
So Solomon began construction of the LORD's Temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah where the LORD had appeared to his father David, that is, where David had prepared Ornan the Jebusite's threshing floor.
2 Chronicles 33:4-7
He also built altars in the LORD's Temple, about which the LORD had spoken "My name will reside in Jerusalem forever."
2 Chronicles 36:14
Meanwhile, all the officials who supervised the priests and the people remained unfaithful, following the detestable example of the surrounding nations. They polluted the LORD's Temple that he had consecrated in Jerusalem.
Ezra 3:12
Now a number of the priests, the Levities, and the leading officials of the elders who were very elderly had seen the former Temple with their own eyes. When they observed the foundation of the Temple being laid, they wept with a loud voice, while the rest of them shouted for joy.
Psalm 48:2
Beautifully situated, the joy of all the earth, Mount Zion towards the north, the city of the great King.
Psalm 50:2
From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shined forth.
Psalm 87:2-3
The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than the dwellings of Jacob.
Jeremiah 7:14
Just as I did to Shiloh, I'll do to the house in which you trust and which is called by my name, the place that I gave to you and your ancestors.
Lamentations 1:10
The adversary seized in his hands everything she valued. She watched the nations enter her sanctuary; those you forbade to enter your place of meeting.
Lamentations 2:1
How the Lord in his wrath shamed cherished Zion! He cast down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, He did not remember his footstool in the time of his anger.
Lamentations 2:7
The Lord rejected his altar, disavowing his sanctuary. He gave up her palace walls to the control of the enemy. They shouted in the LORD's Temple, as though they were attending a day of celebration.
Ezekiel 5:11
"Therefore, as sure as I live," declares the Lord GOD, "because you've defiled my sanctuary with every loathsome thing and every abomination, I'll restrain myself, and I'll show neither pity nor compassion.
Ezekiel 7:22
I'll turn my face away from them so that they'll defile my treasured place. Robbers will enter and profane it!
Haggai 2:3
"Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? And what does it look like now? From what you can see, it seems like nothing, doesn't it?