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 Lord’s temple, the king’s palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem; he burned down all the great houses.
2 Chronicles 36:19
Then the Chaldeans burned God’s temple. They tore down Jerusalem’s wall, burned down all its palaces, and destroyed all its valuable articles.
Psalm 74:5
It was like men in a thicket of trees,
wielding axes,
Jeremiah 52:13
He burned the Lord’s temple, the king’s palace, all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the nobles.
Lamentations 2:7
ז ZayinThe Lord has rejected His altar,
repudiated His sanctuary;
He has handed the walls of her palaces
over to the enemy.
They have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
as on the day of an appointed festival.
Ezekiel 7:20
He appointed His beautiful ornaments for majesty,
but they made their abhorrent images from them,
their detestable things.
Therefore, I have made these
into something filthy for them.
Ezekiel 24:21
‘Say to the house of Israel: This is what the Lord God says: I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the desire of your heart. Also, the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.
Matthew 24:2
Then He replied to them, “Don’t you see all these things? I assure you: Not one stone will be left here on another that will not be thrown down!”

Where

1 Kings 8:14
The king turned around and blessed the entire congregation of Israel while they were standing.
2 Chronicles 6:4
He said:

May the Lord God of Israel be praised!
He spoke directly to my father David,
and He has fulfilled the promise
by His power.
He said,
2 Chronicles 7:3
All the Israelites were watching when the fire descended and the glory of the Lord came on the temple. They bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground. They worshiped and praised the Lord:

For He is good,
for His faithful love endures forever.
2 Chronicles 29:25
Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the Lord’s temple with cymbals, harps, and lyres according to the command of David, Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet. For the command was from the Lord through His prophets.

All our

Lamentations 1:7
ז ZayinDuring the days of her affliction and homelessness
Jerusalem remembers all her precious belongings
that were hers in days of old.
When her people fell into the adversary’s hand,
she had no one to help.
The adversaries looked at her,
laughing over her downfall.

General references

Ezekiel 12:20
The inhabited cities will be destroyed, and the land will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.”
Matthew 23:38
See, your house is left to you desolate.

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