Ezekiel 7:20

Judgment For The Profanation Of The Temple And Sanctuary

¹⁹ They will throw their gold and silver away in the streets like garbage (like an abhorrent thing), because neither silver nor gold can save them when Jehovah pours out his fury. They cannot use it to satisfy their desires or fill their stomachs. Gold and silver led them into sin. ²⁰ They transformed the beauty of His ornaments into pride, and they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things with it; therefore I will make it an abhorrent thing to them. ²¹ I will hand it all over as plunder to foreigners and as loot to the wicked of the earth, and they will defile it.

For This Cause

Ezekiel 24:21

Speak to the house of Israel. Tell them Jehovah says: 'I am about to profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes and your delight. Your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.

Jeremiah 7:30

The sons of Judah have done what is evil in my sight, declares Jehovah. They placed their detestable things in the house called by my name, to defile it.

Isaiah 64:11

Our holy and beautiful Temple where our ancestors praised you has been burned to the ground. All that we valued has been ruined.

Ezekiel 8:7-10

Then he took me to the entrance of the courtyard. As I looked, I saw a hole in the wall.

Ezekiel 8:15-16

He said to me: Do you see this, son of man? Yet you will see still greater abominations than these.

Ezekiel 9:7

He said to them: Dishonor the Temple! Fill its courtyards with dead people, and then leave. So they went out and killed the people in the city.

2 Kings 21:4

He built heathen altars in the Temple of Jehovah. The same Temple that Jehovah spoke of when he said: In Jerusalem will I put my name.

2 Kings 21:7

He made an image of the goddess Asherah and set it in the Temple of Jehovah. This is the same Temple that Jehovah said to David and to Solomon his son: In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever (for a very long time).

2 Kings 23:11-12

He also removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the worship of the sun. He burned the chariots used in this worship.

1 Chronicles 29:1-2

King David announced to the entire assembly: God has chosen my son Solomon. He is however young and lacks experience. The work to be done is enormous, because this is not a palace for people but a Temple for Jehovah God.

2 Chronicles 2:9

Prepare large quantities of timber, because this Temple I intend to build will be large and magnificent.

2 Chronicles 3:1-17

Solomon began to build Jehovah's Temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah. That is where Jehovah appeared to his father David. David had prepared the site on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

2 Chronicles 33:4-7

He built altars in Jehovah's Temple, of which Jehovah said: My name will be in Jerusalem from generation to generation.

2 Chronicles 36:14

All the officials, the priests, and the people became increasingly unfaithful and followed all the disgusting practices of the nations. Although Jehovah made the Temple in Jerusalem holy, they made the Temple unclean.

Ezra 3:12

Some of the priests, Levites, heads of families and old men who had seen the first house were present. When the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes they were overcome with weeping; and a number were crying out with joy:

Psalm 48:2

His situation if beautiful. Mount Zion is the joy of the whole earth. The city of the great King is in the far reaches of the north.

Psalm 50:2

God shines from Zion. He is the perfection of beauty.

Psalm 87:2-3

Jehovah loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.

Jeremiah 7:14

Consider what I will do to the house that is called by my name. It is the house in which you trust. It is the place I gave you and your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.

Lamentations 1:10

The hand of her enemies is stretched out over all her desired things. She sees the nations come into her holy place. Whom you gave orders that they were not to come into the meeting of your people.

Lamentations 2:1

In his anger Jehovah covered Zion with clouds of darkness. He changed its heavenly splendor into ruins. On the day of his anger he abandoned even his footstool.

Lamentations 2:7

Jehovah rejected his altar and disowned his holy place. He gave up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses. Their voices have been loud in the house of Jehovah as in the day of a holy meeting.

Ezekiel 5:11

As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah,' 'because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominations I will withdraw, and my eye will have no pity and I will not spare you.

Ezekiel 7:22

I will turn my face away from them. They will desecrate my treasured place. Robbers will enter it and desecrate it.

Haggai 2:3

Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it nothing in your eyes?'