Ezekiel 7:20
" 'And the beauty of its ornament {he made into a prideful thing} and made with it their detestable things and their vile idols; therefore I will make it into an impure thing for them.
Ezekiel 24:21
"Say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "Look! I [will be] profaning my sanctuary, the pride of your strength [and] the delight of your eyes and the object of your own affection; and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind will fall by the sword,
Jeremiah 7:30
For the people of Judah have done evil in my eyes," {declares} Yahweh, "They have set their abominations in the house that is called {by my name}, to defile it.
Isaiah 64:11
{Our holy and beautiful temple}, where our ancestors praised you has {been burned} [by] fire, and all our precious objects have become ruins.
Ezekiel 8:7-10
And he brought me to the doorway of the courtyard, and I saw, and look! A hole in the wall.
Ezekiel 8:15-16
And he said to me, "Have you seen, son of man? Still {you will see again} greater detestable things than these."
Ezekiel 9:7
And he said to them, "Defile the house and fill the courtyards [with] the dead; go out! And they went out, and they killed in the city.
2 Kings 21:4
He built altars in the temple of Yahweh [about] which Yahweh had said, "I will put my name in Jerusalem."
2 Kings 21:7
He put the image of the Asherah that he had made in the temple which Yahweh had said to David and to Solomon his son, "In this temple and in Jerusalem which I have chosen from all of the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever.
2 Kings 23:11-12
He kept the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun from coming to the temple of Yawheh at the side room of Nathan-Melech the eunuch, which [was] in the court; and the chariots of the sun he burned with fire.
1 Chronicles 29:1-2
Then David the king said to all the assembly, "God has chosen Solomon my son alone, a young man and inexperienced, and the work [is] great, for the citadel [is] not for humankind, but for Yahweh God.
2 Chronicles 2:9
to prepare trees in abundance for me, for the house that I am building [will be] great and wonderful.
2 Chronicles 3:1-17
Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem, on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had established, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Chronicles 33:4-7
And he built altars in the house of Yahweh, [of] which Yahweh had said, "In Jerusalem my name shall be forever."
2 Chronicles 36:14
All the leaders of the priests and the people likewise increased in unfaithfulness according to all the detestable things of the nations. And they polluted the house of Yahweh that he had consecrated in Jerusalem.
Ezra 3:12
But many of the elderly priests, Levites, and heads of the families who had seen the first temple, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house, but many {shouted aloud with joy}.
Psalm 48:2
Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, [is] {Mount Zion}, {in the far north}, [the] city of [the] great king.
Psalm 50:2
From Zion, [the] perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
Psalm 87:2-3
Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Jeremiah 7:14
therefore I will do to the house that is called {by my name}, in which you [are] trusting, and to the place that I gave to you and to your ancestors {what} I did to Shiloh.
Lamentations 1:10
The enemy has stretched out his hand over all her treasures; for she has seen the nations, they entered her sanctuary, those whom you commanded not to enter in your assembly.
Lamentations 2:1
How, {in his anger}, the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion in a cloud! He has thrown down from heavens [to] earth the splendor of Israel, and he has not remembered his footstool in the day of {his anger}.
Lamentations 2:7
The Lord has rejected his altar; he has rejected his sanctuary; he has delivered into the hands of the enemy the walls of its citadel fortresses. They have cried out in the house of Yahweh like a day of an appointed feast.
Ezekiel 5:11
Therefore {as surely as I live}, {declares} the Lord Yahweh, {Surely} because you have defiled my sanctuary with all of your vile idols and with all of your detestable things, {now indeed I} will reduce, and my eye will not take pity, and surely I will show no compassion.
Ezekiel 7:22
And I will turn my face from them, and they will defile my treasured [place], and violent ones will enter and defile it.
Haggai 2:3
'Who among you [is] left that saw this house in its former glory? And how do you see it now? Does it seem like nothing {to you}?