Ezekiel 8:6
He asked me: Son of man, do you see what the people of Israel are doing? The people of Israel are doing very disgusting things here, things that will force me to go far away from my holy place. But you will see even more disgusting things.
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 8:9
He said: Go in and see the wicked abominations (abhorrences) that they are committing here.
Ezekiel 10:19
The angels lifted their wings and rose from the ground. I was watching them as they left with the wheels beside them. The angels stood at the door to the east gate of Jehovah's Temple, and the glory of the God of Israel was above them.
Deuteronomy 31:16-18
Jehovah said to Moses: You are about to lie down with your fathers in death. This people will arise and play the harlot with the strange gods of the land. They will plunge into the midst of it. They will forsake me and break my covenant that I made with them.
2 Kings 23:4-6
Then the king ordered the high priest Hilkiah, the priests who served under Hilkiah, and the doorkeepers to remove from Jehovah's Temple all utensils that had been made for Baal, Asherah, and the entire army of heaven. Josiah burned the utensils outside Jerusalem. It was in an open field near the Kidron Brook. Then he carried their ashes to Bethel.
2 Chronicles 36:14-17
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.
Psalm 78:60
He abandoned his dwelling place in Shiloh, the tent where he had lived among humans.
Proverbs 5:14
I was very near total ruin in the midst of the congregation.
Jeremiah 3:6
During the reign of King Josiah, Jehovah asked me: Did you see what unfaithful Israel did? She went up every high mountain and under every large tree, and she acted like a prostitute 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
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.
Jeremiah 23:11
The prophets and priests are godless. Even in my Temple I have found them doing evil, declares Jehovah.
Jeremiah 26:6
If you continue to disobey I will do to this Temple what I did to Shiloh, and all the nations of the world will use the name of this city as a curse.''
Jeremiah 32:34
They set up their detestable idols in the Temple that is called by my name, and they dishonored it.
Lamentations 2:6-7
He violently takes away his tent, as from a garden. And he lays waste his meeting-place. Jehovah has taken away the memory of feast and Sabbath in Zion. In the passion of his wrath he is against king and priest.
Ezekiel 7:20-22
Once they were proud of their beautiful jewels, but they used them to make disgusting idols. That is why Jehovah has made their wealth repulsive to them.
Ezekiel 8:11-12
Standing in front of them were seventy elders of the house of Israel. Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan stood among them. Each man had his censer in his hand and the fragrance of the cloud of incense was rising.
Ezekiel 8:14
Then he brought me to the entrance of the gate of Jehovah's house toward the north; and I saw women sitting there weeping for Tammuz (the god).
Ezekiel 8:16-17
So he took me to the inner courtyard of the Temple. There near the entrance of the sanctuary, between the altar and the porch, were about twenty-five men. They turned their backs to the sanctuary and were bowing low toward the east, worshiping the rising sun.
Ezekiel 11:22
Then the cherubim (angels) 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.