Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Defilement » Of sin
You are guilty of the blood you have shed, and you are defiled from the idols you have made. You have brought your judgment days near and have come to your years of punishment. Therefore, I have made you a disgrace to the nations and a mockery to all the lands.
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and your fingers, with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies,
and your tongues mutter injustice.
for they have transgressed teachings,
overstepped decrees,
and broken the everlasting covenant.
by the magnitude of your iniquities
in your dishonest trade.
So I made fire come from within you,
and it consumed you.
I reduced you to ashes on the ground
in the sight of everyone watching you.
Whenever they placed their threshold next to My threshold and their doorposts beside My doorposts, with only a wall between Me and them, they were defiling My holy name by the detestable acts they committed. So I destroyed them in My anger.
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Make sure that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up, causing trouble and by it, defiling many.
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And the tongue is a fire. The tongue, a world of unrighteousness, is placed among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the whole body, sets the course of life on fire, and is set on fire by hell.
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Idolatry » Prophecies relating to
and the result of the removal of his sin will be this:
when he makes all the altar stones
like crushed bits of chalk,
no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.
horsemen in pairs.”
And he answered, saying,
“Babylon has fallen,
All the images of her gods
have been shattered on the ground.”
I will make him vomit what he swallowed.
The nations will no longer stream to him;
even Babylon’s wall will fall.
their silver and gold idols,
which they made to worship,
to the moles and the bats.
An oracle against Egypt:
Look, the Lord rides on a swift cloud
and is coming to Egypt.
Egypt’s idols will tremble before Him,
and Egypt’s heart will melt within it.
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and is coming to Egypt.
Egypt’s idols will tremble before Him,
and Egypt’s heart will melt within it.
now they must bear their guilt.
The Lord will break down their altars
and demolish their sacred pillars.
At the time of their punishment
they will be destroyed.
On that day”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“I will erase the names of the idols from the land, and they will no longer be remembered. I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.
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“I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night and strike every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. I am Yahweh; I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt.
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The Lord will be terrifying to them
when He starves all the gods of the earth.
Then all the distant coastlands of the nations
will bow in worship to Him,
each in its own place.
Therefore, look, the days are coming
when I will punish Babylon’s carved images.
Her entire land will suffer shame,
and all her slain will lie fallen within her.
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Therefore, look, the days are coming—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
when I will punish her carved images,
and the wounded will groan
throughout her land.
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I will remove your carved images
and sacred pillars from you
so that you will not bow down again
to the work of your hands.
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when He starves all the gods of the earth.
Then all the distant coastlands of the nations
will bow in worship to Him,
each in its own place.
On that day people will look to their Maker and will turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel. They will not look to the altars they made with their hands or to the Asherahs and incense altars they made with their fingers.
For on that day, every one of you will reject the silver and gold idols that your own hands have sinfully made.
You are to say this to them, “The gods that did not make the heavens and the earth will perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”
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when I will punish Babylon’s carved images.
Her entire land will suffer shame,
and all her slain will lie fallen within her.
this is the Lord’s declaration—
when I will punish her carved images,
and the wounded will groan
throughout her land.
He said to me: "Son of man, this is the place of My throne and the place for the soles of My feet, where I will dwell among the Israelites forever. [The house of] Israel and their kings will no longer defile My holy name by their [religious] prostitution and by the corpses of their kings at their high places. Whenever they placed their threshold next to My threshold and their doorposts beside My doorposts, with [only] a wall between Me and them, they were defiling My holy name by the abominations they committed. So I destroyed them in My anger. Now let them remove their prostitution and the corpses of their kings far from Me, and I will dwell among them forever.
and sacred pillars from you
so that you will not bow down again
to the work of your hands.
Walls » Designed for separation
For He is our peace, who made both groups one and tore down the dividing wall of hostility. In His flesh,
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Whenever they placed their threshold next to My threshold and their doorposts beside My doorposts, with only a wall between Me and them, they were defiling My holy name by the detestable acts they committed. So I destroyed them in My anger.
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