21 Bible Verses about Destruction Of The Temple

Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, 'Why has the LORD done thus to this land, and to this house?'

But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven to wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into Babylon.

He burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burnt he with fire.

He has done violence to his temple, as if it were a garden; he has destroyed his place of assembly. The LORD has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. He has spurned in his fierce anger the king and the priest.

But he answered them, "Do you not see all of these things? Truly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down."

And Jesus said to him, "Do you see these great buildings? There will not be left here one stone on another, which will not be thrown down."

and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you did not know the time of your visitation."

"As for these things which you see, the days will come, in which there will not be left here one stone on another that will not be thrown down."

He said, "I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away."

He said, "I have been very jealous for the LORD, the God of Hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away."

After the sixty-two weeks an anointed one shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and his end shall come with a flood, and until the end there shall be war; desolations are decreed.

And it magnified itself, even against the Prince of the host; and it took away from him the daily sacrifice, and the place of his sanctuary was thrown down.

and said, "This man said, 'I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.'"

"We heard him say, 'I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and in three days I will build another made without hands.'"

Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up."

and saying, "You who destroy the temple, and build it in three days, save yourself. If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross."

For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us."

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, "Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.

"You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says the LORD of hosts, "Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.

"Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."