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 have you then broken down its hedges, so that all they who pass by the way do pluck its fruit?
Isaiah 5:5
And now; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be eaten up; and break down its wall, and it shall be trampled down:
Isaiah 63:18
The people of your holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your sanctuary.
Isaiah 64:11
Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

As if

Isaiah 1:8
And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a hut in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

Caused

Lamentations 1:4
The roads to Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
Zephaniah 3:18
I will gather them that are sorrowful for the appointed assembly, who are among you, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.

The king

Lamentations 4:16
The anger of the LORD has scattered them; he will no longer regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders.
Lamentations 5:12
Princes were hung up by their hands: the faces of elders were not honored.
Isaiah 43:28
Therefore I have profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.
Jeremiah 52:11
Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.
Ezekiel 12:12
And the prince that is among them shall bear upon his shoulder in the twilight, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to go out through it: he shall cover his face, so that he sees not the ground with his eyes.
Ezekiel 17:18
Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant, when, lo, he had given his hand, and has done all these things, he shall not escape.
Malachi 2:9
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as you have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.

General references

Isaiah 64:10
Your holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Lamentations 3:3
Surely against me has he turned; he turns his hand against me all the day.
Ezekiel 9:7
And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go you forth. And they went forth, and killed in the city.