Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.

Their holy places shall be defiled

General references

Bible References

I will bring

Ezekiel 21:31
I will pour out My indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of My wrath, and I will give you into the hand of brutal men, skilled in destruction.
Ezekiel 28:7
Therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon you,
The most ruthless of the nations.
And they will draw their swords
Against the beauty of your wisdom
And defile your splendor.
Psalm 106:41
Then He gave them into the hand of the nations,
And those who hated them ruled over them.
Jeremiah 4:7
“A lion has gone up from his thicket,
And a destroyer of nations has set out;
He has gone out from his place
To make your land a waste.
Your cities will be ruins
Without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 12:12
“On all the bare heights in the wilderness
Destroyers have come,
For a sword of the Lord is devouring
From one end of the land even to the other;
There is no peace for anyone.
Habakkuk 1:6
“For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans,
That fierce and impetuous people
Who march throughout the earth
To seize dwelling places which are not theirs.

They shall

Jeremiah 6:12
“Their houses shall be turned over to others,
Their fields and their wives together;
For I will stretch out My hand
Against the inhabitants of the land,” declares the Lord.
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
Our houses to aliens.

I will also

Ezekiel 33:28
I will make the land a desolation and a waste, and the pride of her power will cease; and the mountains of Israel will be desolate so that no one will pass through.
Isaiah 5:14
Therefore Sheol has enlarged its throat and opened its mouth without measure;
And Jerusalem’s splendor, her multitude, her din of revelry and the jubilant within her, descend into it.

Their holy places shall be defiled

Ezekiel 21:2
“Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and speak against the sanctuaries and prophesy against the land of Israel;
2 Chronicles 7:19
But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them,
Psalm 83:12
Who said, “Let us possess for ourselves
The pastures of God.”

General references

Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
Our houses to aliens.