Thematic Bible: Pollution of God's house
Thematic Bible
Temple » Pollution of God's house
You brought godless foreigners into my holy place. You dishonored my temple when you offered fat and blood to me. You rejected my promise so that you could do all your disgusting things.
So he took me to the inner courtyard of the Temple. There near the entrance of the sanctuary, between the altar and the porch, were about twenty-five men. They turned their backs to the sanctuary and were bowing low toward the east, worshiping the rising sun.
Her prophets are insolent and treacherous persons. Her priests have profaned the sanctuary! They have done violence to the law.
He found the merchants who sold oxen, sheep and doves. The moneychangers were sitting nearby.
Manasseh had a carved idol made. Then he set it up in God's Temple, where God had said to David and his son Solomon: I have chosen this temple and Jerusalem from all the tribes of Israel. I will put my name here from generation to generation.
All the officials, the priests, and the people became increasingly unfaithful and followed all the disgusting practices of the nations. Although Jehovah made the Temple in Jerusalem holy, they made the Temple unclean.
The sons of Judah have done what is evil in my sight, declares Jehovah. They placed their detestable things in the house called by my name, to defile it.
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- 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