Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

As if

Bible References

He hath violently

Psalm 80:12
Why did you break down its walls so that those who pass by pluck its fruits?
Isaiah 5:5
"Now, let me tell you, won't you please, what I'm going to do to my vineyard. "I'm going to take away its protective hedge, and it will be devoured; I'll break down its wall, and it will be trampled.
Isaiah 63:18
Your holy people took possession for a little while, but now our enemies have trampled down your sanctuary.
Isaiah 64:11
Our holy Temple and our splendor, where our ancestors praised you, have become a conflagration of fire, and all our dearest places have become ruins.

As if

Isaiah 1:8
"The daughter of Zion is left abandoned, like a booth in a vineyard, like a hut in a cucumber field, or like a city under siege.

Caused

Lamentations 1:4
The roads that lead to Zion are in mourning, because no one travels to the festivals. All her gates are desolate; her priests are moaning. Her young women are grieving, and she is bitter.
Zephaniah 3:18
I will gather the afflicted from the solemn assembly; those who were with you, who were bearing a burden of disgrace.

The king

Lamentations 4:16
The LORD himself separated them; he will do nothing more for them. They did not respect their own priests; they did not honor their elders.
Lamentations 5:12
Princes they have hung by their hands; elders they have disrespected.
Isaiah 43:28
So I'll disgrace the leaders of the Temple, and I'll consign Jacob to total destruction and Israel to contempt.
Jeremiah 52:11
He blinded Zedekiah and bound him in bronze shackles. Then the king of Babylon took him to Babylon and put him in prison until he died.
Ezekiel 12:12
Then the prince, who will be one of them, will carry his luggage on his shoulder in the dark and will go out. They'll dig a hole in the wall for him to go through. His face will be covered so that he won't be able to see the land with his eyes.
Ezekiel 17:18
He despised the oath he had made and broke the covenant. Look! Because he willingly submitted, yet he has done all these things, he won't escape.
Malachi 2:9
"So I also made you despised, humiliating you before all of the people, because you aren't following my ways and are showing partiality when you teach."

General references

Isaiah 64:10
Your holy cities have become a desert; Zion has become like a desert, Jerusalem a desolation.
Lamentations 3:3
He truly turned his hand against me, again and again, all day long.
Ezekiel 9:7
"Desecrate my Temple," he told them, "and fill its courtyard with the dead!" So they went out and began striking down people throughout the city.

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