Ezekiel 7:20

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.

But

Jeremiah 7:30

Set it far from them

General references

Ezekiel 9:7

Ezekiel 11:18

Ezekiel 16:16

Bible References

But

For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have made my holy place unclean with all your hated things and all your disgusting ways, you will become disgusting to me; my eye will have no mercy and I will have no pity.

And he took me to the door of the open place; and looking, I saw a hole in the wall.

And he put up altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

And he took away the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the way into the house of the Lord, by the room of Nathan-melech, the unsexed servant, which was in the outer part of the building, and the carriages of the sun he put on fire.

And he made altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will my name be for ever.

And more than this, all the great men of Judah and the priests and the people made their sin great, turning to all the disgusting ways of the nations; and they made unclean the house of the Lord which he had made holy in Jerusalem.

For the children of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes, says the Lord: they have put their disgusting images in the house which is named by my name, making it unclean.

Set it far from them

And my face will be turned away from them, and they will make my secret place unholy: violent men will go into it and make it unholy.

And he said to them, Make the house unclean, make the open places full of dead: go forward and send destruction on the town.

Say to the people of Israel, The Lord has said, See, I will make my holy place unclean, the pride of your strength, the pleasure of your eyes, and the desire of your soul; and your sons and daughters, who did not come with you here, will be put to the sword.

For this reason I will do to the house which is named by my name, and in which you have put your faith, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

The hand of her hater is stretched out over all her desired things; for she has seen that the nations have come into her holy place, about whom you gave orders that they were not to come into the meeting of your people.

How has the daughter of Zion been covered with a cloud by the Lord in his wrath! he has sent down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, and has not kept in memory the resting-place of his feet in the day of his wrath.

General references

And he said to them, Make the house unclean, make the open places full of dead: go forward and send destruction on the town.

And they will come there, and take away all the hated and disgusting things from it.

And you took your robes and made high places for yourself ornamented with every colour, acting like a loose woman on them, without shame or fear.