Ezekiel 8:6

Abominations In The Temple And In Jerusalem

⁵ Then He said to me, “Son of man, raise your eyes now toward the north.” So I raised my eyes toward the north, and behold, to the north of the altar gate was this idol of jealousy at the entrance. ⁶ And He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great abominations which the house of Israel are committing here, so that I would be far from My sanctuary? But yet you will see still greater abominations.” ⁷ Then He brought me to the entrance of the court, and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.

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Ezekiel 5:11

So as I live,’ declares the Lord God, ‘surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominations, therefore I will also withdraw, and My eye will have no pity and I will not spare.

Ezekiel 8:9

And He said to me, “Go in and see the wicked abominations that they are committing here.”

Ezekiel 10:19

When the cherubim departed, they lifted their wings and rose up from the earth in my sight with the wheels beside them; and they stood still at the entrance of the east gate of the Lord’s house, and the glory of the God of Israel hovered over them.

Deuteronomy 31:16-18

The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers; and this people will arise and play the harlot with the strange gods of the land, into the midst of which they are going, and will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.

2 Kings 23:4-6

Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second order and the doorkeepers, to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; and he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

2 Chronicles 36:14-17

Furthermore, all the officials of the priests and the people were very unfaithful following all the abominations of the nations; and they defiled the house of the Lord which He had sanctified in Jerusalem.

Psalm 78:60

So that He abandoned the dwelling place at Shiloh,
The tent which He had pitched among men,

Proverbs 5:14

“I was almost in utter ruin
In the midst of the assembly and congregation.”

Jeremiah 3:6

Then the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen what faithless Israel did? She went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she was a harlot there.

Jeremiah 7:17

Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

Jeremiah 7:30

For the sons of Judah have done that which is evil in My sight,” declares the Lord, “they have set their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.

Jeremiah 23:11

“For both prophet and priest are polluted;
Even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the Lord.

Jeremiah 26:6

then I will make this house like Shiloh, and this city I will make a curse to all the nations of the earth.”’”

Jeremiah 32:34

But they put their detestable things in the house which is called by My name, to defile it.

Lamentations 2:6-7

And He has violently treated His tabernacle like a garden booth;
He has destroyed His appointed meeting place.
The Lord has caused to be forgotten
The appointed feast and sabbath in Zion,
And He has despised king and priest
In the indignation of His anger.

Ezekiel 7:20-22

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.

Ezekiel 8:11-12

Standing in front of them were seventy elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan standing among them, each man with his censer in his hand and the fragrance of the cloud of incense rising.

Ezekiel 8:14

Then He brought me to the entrance of the gate of the Lord’s house which was toward the north; and behold, women were sitting there weeping for Tammuz.

Ezekiel 8:16-17

Then He brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house. And behold, at the entrance to the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east; and they were prostrating themselves eastward toward the sun.

Ezekiel 11:22

Then the cherubim lifted up their wings with the wheels beside them, and the glory of the God of Israel hovered over them.

Ezekiel 23:38-39

Again, they have done this to Me: they have defiled My sanctuary on the same day and have profaned My sabbaths.