Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

General references

Bible References

Holy

2 Kings 25:9
He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire.
2 Chronicles 36:19
Then they burned the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its fortified buildings with fire and destroyed all its valuable articles.
Psalm 74:5
It seems as if one had lifted up
His axe in a forest of trees.
Jeremiah 52:13
He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every large house he burned with fire.
Lamentations 2:7
The Lord has rejected His altar,
He has abandoned His sanctuary;
He has delivered into the hand of the enemy
The walls of her palaces.
They have made a noise in the house of the Lord
As in the day of an appointed feast.
Ezekiel 7:20
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 24:21
‘Speak to the house of Israel, “Thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I am about to profane My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes and the delight of your soul; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.
Matthew 24:2
And He said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Truly I say to you, not one stone here will be left upon another, which will not be torn down.”

Where

1 Kings 8:14
Then the king faced about and blessed all the assembly of Israel, while all the assembly of Israel was standing.
2 Chronicles 6:4
He said, “Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who spoke with His mouth to my father David and has fulfilled it with His hands, saying,
2 Chronicles 7:3
All the sons of Israel, seeing the fire come down and the glory of the Lord upon the house, bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave praise to the Lord, saying, “Truly He is good, truly His lovingkindness is everlasting.”
2 Chronicles 29:25
He then stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, with harps and with lyres, according to the command of David and of Gad the king’s seer, and of Nathan the prophet; for the command was from the Lord through His prophets.

All our

Lamentations 1:7
In the days of her affliction and homelessness
Jerusalem remembers all her precious things
That were from the days of old,
When her people fell into the hand of the adversary
And no one helped her.
The adversaries saw her,
They mocked at her ruin.

General references

Ezekiel 12:20
The inhabited cities will be laid waste and the land will be a desolation. So you will know that I am the Lord.”’”
Matthew 23:38
Behold, your house is being left to you desolate!