Ezekiel 7:20
They rendered the beauty of his ornaments into pride, and with it they made their abominable images -- their detestable idols. Therefore I will render it filthy to them.
Ezekiel 24:21
Say to the house of Israel, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: Realize I am about to desecrate my sanctuary -- the source of your confident pride, the object in which your eyes delight, and your life's passion. Your very own sons and daughters whom you have left behind will die by the sword.
Jeremiah 7:30
The Lord says, "I have rejected them because the people of Judah have done what I consider evil. They have set up their disgusting idols in the temple which I have claimed for my own and have defiled it.
Isaiah 64:11
Our holy temple, our pride and joy, the place where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire; all our prized possessions have been destroyed.
Ezekiel 8:7-10
He brought me to the entrance of the court, and as I watched, I noticed a hole in the wall.
Ezekiel 8:15-16
He said to me, "Do you see this, son of man? You will see even greater abominations than these!"
Ezekiel 9:7
He said to them, "Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with corpses. Go!" So they went out and struck people down throughout the city.
2 Kings 21:4
He built altars in the Lord's temple, about which the Lord had said, "Jerusalem will be my home."
2 Kings 21:7
He put an idol of Asherah he had made in the temple, about which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon, "This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.
2 Kings 23:11-12
He removed from the entrance to the Lord's temple the statues of horses that the kings of Judah had placed there in honor of the sun god. (They were kept near the room of Nathan Melech the eunuch, which was situated among the courtyards.) He burned up the chariots devoted to the sun god.
1 Chronicles 29:1-2
King David said to the entire assembly: "My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is just an inexperienced young man, and the task is great, for this palace is not for man, but for the Lord God.
2 Chronicles 2:9
to supply me with large quantities of timber, for I am building a great, magnificent temple.
2 Chronicles 3:1-17
Solomon began building the Lord's temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David prepared at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
2 Chronicles 33:4-7
He built altars in the Lord's temple, about which the Lord had said, "Jerusalem will be my permanent home."
2 Chronicles 36:14
All the leaders of the priests and people became more unfaithful and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations. They defiled the Lord's temple which he had consecrated in Jerusalem.
Ezra 3:12
Many of the priests, the Levites, and the leaders -- older people who had seen with their own eyes the former temple while it was still established -- were weeping loudly, and many others raised their voice in a joyous shout.
Psalm 48:2
It is lofty and pleasing to look at, a source of joy to the whole earth. Mount Zion resembles the peaks of Zaphon; it is the city of the great king.
Psalm 50:2
From Zion, the most beautiful of all places, God comes in splendor.
Psalm 87:2-3
The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
Jeremiah 7:14
So I will destroy this temple which I have claimed as my own, this temple that you are trusting to protect you. I will destroy this place that I gave to you and your ancestors, just like I destroyed Shiloh.
Lamentations 1:10
(Yod) An enemy grabbed all her valuables. Indeed she watched in horror as Gentiles invaded her holy temple -- those whom you had commanded: "They must not enter your assembly place."
Lamentations 2:1
(Alef) Alas! The Lord has covered Daughter Zion with his anger. He has thrown down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth; he did not protect his temple when he displayed his anger.
Lamentations 2:7
(Zayin) The Lord rejected his altar and abhorred his temple. He handed over to the enemy her palace walls; the enemy shouted in the Lord's temple as if it were a feast day.
Ezekiel 5:11
"Therefore, as surely as I live, says the sovereign Lord, because you defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominable practices, I will withdraw; my eye will not pity you, nor will I spare you.
Ezekiel 7:22
I will turn my face away from them and they will desecrate my treasured place. Vandals will enter it and desecrate it.
Haggai 2:3
Who among you survivors saw the former splendor of this temple? How does it look to you now? Isn't it nothing by comparison?