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 the fire of My fury on you.
I will hand you over to brutal men,
skilled at destruction.
Ezekiel 28:7
I am about to bring strangers against you,
ruthless men from the nations.
They will draw their swords
against your magnificent wisdom
and will defile your splendor.
Psalm 106:41
He handed them over to the nations;
those who hated them ruled them.
Jeremiah 4:7
A lion has gone up from his thicket;
a destroyer of nations has set out.
He has left his lair
to make your land a waste.
Your cities will be reduced to uninhabited ruins.
Jeremiah 12:12
Over all the barren heights in the wilderness
the destroyers have come,
for the Lord has a sword that devours
from one end of the earth to the other.
No one has peace.
Habakkuk 1:6
Look! I am raising up the Chaldeans,
that bitter, impetuous nation
that marches across the earth’s open spaces
to seize territories not its own.

They shall

Jeremiah 6:12
Their houses will be turned over to others,
their fields and wives as well,
for I will stretch out My hand
against the inhabitants of the land.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
our houses to foreigners.

I will also

Ezekiel 33:28
I will make the land a desolate waste, and its proud strength will come to an end. The mountains of Israel will become desolate, with no one passing through.
Isaiah 5:14
Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat
and opens wide its enormous jaws,
and down go Zion’s dignitaries, her masses,
her crowds, and those who carouse in her!

Their holy places shall be defiled

Ezekiel 21:2
“Son of man, turn your face toward Jerusalem and preach against the sanctuaries. Prophesy against the land of Israel,
2 Chronicles 7:19
However, if you turn away and abandon My statutes and My commands that I have set before you and if you go and serve other gods and worship them,
Psalm 83:12
who said, “Let us seize God’s pastures for ourselves.”

General references

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

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