Ezekiel 7:20
And the beauty of His ornament, He set it in majesty. But they made the images of their abominations and of their hateful things in it; therefore I have put it to them as an impure thing.
Ezekiel 24:21
Speak to the house of Israel. So says the Lord Jehovah: behold, I will defile My sanctuary, the glory of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities. And your sons and your daughters whom you have left shall fall by the sword.
Jeremiah 7:30
For the sons of Judah have done evil in My sight, says Jehovah. They have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, in order to defile it.
Isaiah 64:11
The house of our holiness and our beauty, where our fathers praised You, has become a burning of fire; and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
Ezekiel 8:7-10
And He brought me to the opening of the court; and I looked, and behold, a hole in the wall.
Ezekiel 8:15-16
And He said to me, Have you seen, O son of man? Turn yet again, and you shall see greater evils than these.
Ezekiel 9:7
And He said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out! And they went out and killed in the city.
2 Kings 21:4
And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah said, In Jerusalem I will put My name.
2 Kings 21:7
And he set a graven image of the Asherah which he had made in the house, of which Jehovah had 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 took away the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of Jehovah, by the room of Nathan-melech the eunuch, which was in the suburbs. And he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
1 Chronicles 29:1-2
And David the king said to all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is young and tender, and the work is great. For the palace is not for man, but for Jehovah God.
2 Chronicles 2:9
in order to prepare plenty of timber for me. For the house which I am about to build shall be great and wonderful.
2 Chronicles 3:1-17
And Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah at Jerusalem in Mount Moriah, where He appeared to David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Chronicles 33:4-7
And he built altars in the house of Jehovah, of which Jehovah had said, In Jerusalem shall My name be forever.
2 Chronicles 36:14
Also all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of Jehovah which He had made holy in Jerusalem.
Ezra 3:12
But many of the priests and Levites and chief of the fathers, ancient men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice. And many shouted aloud for joy
Psalm 48:2
Beautiful on high, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
Psalm 50:2
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God has shone.
Psalm 87:2-3
Jehovah loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Jeremiah 7:14
therefore I will do to this house, which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
Lamentations 1:10
The enemy has spread out his hand upon all her desirable things; for she has seen the nations enter her holy place, whom You commanded that they should not enter into Your congregation.
Lamentations 2:1
How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in His anger! He cast down the beauty of Israel from the heavens to the earth and remembered not His footstool in the day of His anger.
Lamentations 2:7
Jehovah has cast off His altar; He rejected His sanctuary; He has given up the walls of her palaces into the hater's hand. They gave a noise in the house of Jehovah, as a day of meeting.
Ezekiel 5:11
Therefore, as I live, says the Lord Jehovah, surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also withdraw; nor shall My eye spare you, nor will I have any pity.
Ezekiel 7:22
I will also turn My face from them, and they shall defile My secret place; and violent ones shall enter into it and defile it.
Haggai 2:3
Who is left among you who saw this house in her first glory? And how do you see it now? When compared to it, is it not as nothing in your eyes?