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.

Bible References

But

Ezekiel 5:11
"'Therefore as I live,' says the Lord GOD, 'surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you; neither shall my eye spare, and I also will have no pity.
Ezekiel 8:7
He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.
2 Kings 21:4
He built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, "I will put my name in Jerusalem."
2 Kings 23:11
He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of the LORD, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
2 Chronicles 33:4
He built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, "My name shall be in Jerusalem forever."
2 Chronicles 36:14
Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of the LORD which he had made holy in Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 7:30
"For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight," says the LORD: "they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

Set it far from them

Ezekiel 7:22
My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret place; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.
Ezekiel 9:7
He said to them, "Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth." They went forth, and struck in the city.
Ezekiel 24:21
'Speak to the house of Israel, "Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.
Jeremiah 7:14
therefore I will do to the 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 did to Shiloh.
Lamentations 1:10
The adversary has spread out his hand on all her precious things: for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.
Lamentations 2:1
How the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger. He has cast down from heaven to the earth the splendor of Israel, and hasn't remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

General references

Ezekiel 9:7
He said to them, "Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth." They went forth, and struck in the city.
Ezekiel 11:18
They shall come there, and they shall take away all the detestable things of it and all its abominations from there.
Ezekiel 16:16
You took of your garments, and made for yourselves high places decked with various colors, and played the prostitute on them: the like things shall not come, neither shall it be so.