Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

Bible References

People

Isaiah 62:12
And they will call them, The Holy People, The Redeemed of Jehovah; and you will be called, Sought Out, a city not forsaken.
Exodus 19:4
You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to Myself.
Deuteronomy 7:6
For you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Jehovah your God has chosen you to be a special people to Himself above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 26:19
and to make you high above all nations which He has made, in praise and in name and in honor, and that you may be a holy people to Jehovah your God, even as He has spoken.
Daniel 8:24
And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power. And he shall destroy marvelously, and shall prosper and work, and destroy the mighty and the holy people.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for possession, so that you might speak of the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

Our

Isaiah 64:11
The house of our holiness and our beauty, where our fathers praised You, has become a burning of fire; and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
Psalm 74:3
Lift up Your feet to the never-ending ruins, even all that the enemy has done wickedly in the sanctuary.
Lamentations 1:10
The enemy has spread out his hand upon all her desirable things; for she has seen the nations enter her holy place, whom You commanded that they should not enter into Your congregation.
Lamentations 4:1
How the gold has become dim; the fine gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
Matthew 24:2
And Jesus said to them, Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, There shall not be left here one stone on another that shall not be thrown down.
Revelation 11:2
But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it was given to the nations. And they will trample the holy city forty-two months.

General references

Genesis 13:15
For all the land which you see I will give to you, and to your seed forever.
Deuteronomy 30:18
I declare to you today that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days on the land where you pass over Jordan to go to possess it.
Lamentations 5:2
Our inheritance has turned to aliens, our houses to foreigners.