Jeremiah 32:34

They have placed their detestable things in the house that is called by My name and have defiled it.

Jeremiah 7:30

“For the Judeans have done what is evil in My sight.” This is the Lord’s declaration. “They have set up their detestable things in the house that is called by My name and defiled it.

2 Kings 21:4-7

He built altars in the Lord’s temple, where the Lord had said, “Jerusalem is where I will put My name.”

Jeremiah 23:11

because both prophet and priest are ungodly,
even in My house I have found their evil.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

He brought out the Asherah pole from the Lord’s temple to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem. He burned it at the Kidron Valley, beat it to dust, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.

2 Chronicles 33:4-7

He built altars in the Lord’s temple, where Yahweh had said, “Jerusalem is where My name will remain forever.”

2 Chronicles 33:15

He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the Lord’s temple, along with all the altars that he had built on the mountain of the Lord’s temple and in Jerusalem, and he threw them outside the city.

Ezekiel 8:5-16

The Lord said to me, “Son of man, look toward the north.” I looked to the north, and there was this offensive statue north of the altar gate, at the entrance.

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