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 broken down its walls, so that all those who pass by the way pluck it?
Isaiah 5:5
Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall of it, and it will be trampled down.
Isaiah 63:18
Your holy people 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 with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.

As if

Isaiah 1:8
The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.

Caused

Lamentations 1:4
The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests groan: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
Zephaniah 3:18
I will remove those who grieve about the appointed feasts from you. They are a burden and a reproach to you.

The king

Lamentations 4:16
The LORD himself has scattered them; he will no more regard them. They did not respect the priests, they did not favor the elders.
Lamentations 5:12
Princes were hung by their hands; elders were shown no respect.
Isaiah 43:28
Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel a reviling."
Jeremiah 52:11
He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.
Ezekiel 12:12
"The prince who is among them shall bear on his shoulder in the dark, and shall go forth: they shall dig through the wall to carry out thereby: he shall cover his face, because he shall not see the land with his eyes.
Ezekiel 17:18
For he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet has done all these things; he shall not escape.'
Malachi 2:9
"Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.

General references

Isaiah 64:10
Your holy cities have become like a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Lamentations 3:3
Surely against me he turns his hand again and again all the day.
Ezekiel 9:7
He said to them, "Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth." They went forth, and struck in the city.