Thematic Bible: Pollution of God's house
Thematic Bible
Temple » Pollution of God's house
You kept on bringing in foreigners, those who were uncircumcised in heart and flesh, to profane my sanctuary by being inside my Temple, and by doing so you've emptied my covenant, all the while offering my food the fat and the blood in addition to all of the other loathsome things you've done.
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Then he brought me to the inner court of the LORD's Temple. There, at the entrance to the LORD's Temple, between the porch and the altar, were 25 men, with their backs toward the LORD's Temple and facing the east, prostrating themselves to the sun.
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Its prophets are arrogant and treacherous. Its priests have contaminated the sanctuary. They give perverse interpretations of the Law.
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In the Temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, as well as moneychangers sitting at their tables.
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He also placed an image that he had carved in God's Temple, the place about which God had told to David and to his son Solomon, "I will place my name in this Temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel,"
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Meanwhile, all the officials who supervised the priests and the people remained unfaithful, following the detestable example of the surrounding nations. They polluted the LORD's Temple that he had consecrated in Jerusalem.
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"For the people of Judah have done evil in my eyes," declares the LORD. "They have put their detestable idols in the house that is called by my name in order to defile it.
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Related Topics
- Abominations, Idolatry Is
- Abominations, Sin Is
- Animism
- Blood Of Sacrifices
- Bowing
- Bowing To False Gods
- Breaking The Covenant
- Christ In The Temple
- Corrupt Priests
- Courts Of The Temple
- Covenant Made At Sinai
- Covenant, God's with David
- Facing East
- False Religion
- Fat Of The Sacrifices