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Ezekiel 24:21
Say to the people of Israel,‘ This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am about to desecrate my sanctuary— the stronghold in which you take pride, the delight of your eyes, the object of your affection. The sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword. (niv)
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Jeremiah 7:30
“‘ The people of Judah have done evil in my eyes, declares the Lord. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my Name and have defiled it. (niv)
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Isaiah 64:11
Our holy and glorious temple, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire, and all that we treasured lies in ruins. (niv)
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Ezekiel 8:15-16
He said to me,“ Do you see this, son of man? You will see things that are even more detestable than this.”He then brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord, and there at the entrance to the temple, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men. With their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, they were bowing down to the sun in the east. (niv)
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Ezekiel 8:7-10
Then he brought me to the entrance to the court. I looked, and I saw a hole in the wall.He said to me,“ Son of man, now dig into the wall.” So I dug into the wall and saw a doorway there.And he said to me,“ Go in and see the wicked and detestable things they are doing here.”So I went in and looked, and I saw portrayed all over the walls all kinds of crawling things and unclean animals and all the idols of Israel. (niv)
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Ezekiel 9:7
Then he said to them,“ Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go!” So they went out and began killing throughout the city. (niv)
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2 Chronicles 36 14
Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people became more and more unfaithful, following all the detestable practices of the nations and defiling the temple of the Lord, which he had consecrated in Jerusalem. (niv)
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Lamentations 2:1
How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion with the cloud of his anger! He has hurled down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth; he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. (niv)
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1 Chronicles 29 1-1 Chronicles 29 2
Then King David said to the whole assembly:“ My son Solomon, the one whom God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. The task is great, because this palatial structure is not for man but for the Lord God.With all my resources I have provided for the temple of my God— gold for the gold work, silver for the silver, bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron and wood for the wood, as well as onyx for the settings, turquoise, stones of various colors, and all kinds of fine stone and marble— all of these in large quantities. (niv)
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Ezra 3:12
But many of the older priests and Levites and family heads, who had seen the former temple, wept aloud when they saw the foundation of this temple being laid, while many others shouted for joy. (niv)
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Psalms 87:2-3
The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the other dwellings of Jacob.Glorious things are said of you, city of God: (niv)
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Lamentations 1:10
The enemy laid hands on all her treasures; she saw pagan nations enter her sanctuary— those you had forbidden to enter your assembly. (niv)
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Ezekiel 5:11
Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your vile images and detestable practices, I myself will shave you; I will not look on you with pity or spare you. (niv)
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Lamentations 2:7
The Lord has rejected his altar and abandoned his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hands of the enemy; they have raised a shout in the house of the Lord as on the day of an appointed festival. (niv)
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2 Chronicles 3 1-2 Chronicles 3 17
Then Solomon began to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, the place provided by David.He began building on the second day of the second month in the fourth year of his reign.The foundation Solomon laid for building the temple of God was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide( using the cubit of the old standard).The portico at the front of the temple was twenty cubits long across the width of the building and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.He paneled the main hall with juniper and covered it with fine gold and decorated it with palm tree and chain designs.He adorned the temple with precious stones. And the gold he used was gold of Parvaim.He overlaid the ceiling beams, doorframes, walls and doors of the temple with gold, and he carved cherubim on the walls.He built the Most Holy Place, its length corresponding to the width of the temple— twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. He overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold.The gold nails weighed fifty shekels. He also overlaid the upper parts with gold.For the Most Holy Place he made a pair of sculptured cherubim and overlaid them with gold.The total wingspan of the cherubim was twenty cubits. One wing of the first cherub was five cubits long and touched the temple wall, while its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the other cherub.Similarly one wing of the second cherub was five cubits long and touched the other temple wall, and its other wing, also five cubits long, touched the wing of the first cherub.The wings of these cherubim extended twenty cubits. They stood on their feet, facing the main hall.He made the curtain of blue, purple and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim worked into it.For the front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty- five cubits long, each with a capital five cubits high.He made interwoven chains and put them on top of the pillars. He also made a hundred pomegranates and attached them to the chains.He erected the pillars in the front of the temple, one to the south and one to the north. The one to the south he named Jakin and the one to the north Boaz. (niv)
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Psalms 48:2
Beautiful in its loftiness, the joy of the whole earth, like the heights of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the Great King. (niv)
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Jeremiah 7:14
Therefore, what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears my Name, the temple you trust in, the place I gave to you and your ancestors. (niv)
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Psalms 50:2
From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth. (niv)
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2 Chronicles 33 4-2 Chronicles 33 7
He built altars in the temple of the Lord, of which the Lord had said,“ My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”In both courts of the temple of the Lord, he built altars to all the starry hosts.He sacrificed his children in the fire in the Valley of Ben Hinnom, practiced divination and witchcraft, sought omens, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, arousing his anger.He took the image he had made and put it in God’s temple, of which God had said to David and to his son Solomon,“ In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name forever. (niv)
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2 Kings 23 11-2 Kings 23 12
He removed from the entrance to the temple of the Lord the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near the room of an official named Nathan-Melek. Josiah then burned the chariots dedicated to the sun.He pulled down the altars the kings of Judah had erected on the roof near the upper room of Ahaz, and the altars Manasseh had built in the two courts of the temple of the Lord. He removed them from there, smashed them to pieces and threw the rubble into the Kidron Valley. (niv)
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2 Chronicles 2 9
to provide me with plenty of lumber, because the temple I build must be large and magnificent. (niv)
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2 Kings 21 4
He built altars in the temple of the Lord, of which the Lord had said,“ In Jerusalem I will put my Name.” (niv)
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2 Kings 21 7
He took the carved Asherah pole he had made and put it in the temple, of which the Lord had said to David and to his son Solomon,“ In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my Name forever. (niv)
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Haggai 2:3
‘ Who of you is left who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Does it not seem to you like nothing? (niv)
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Ezekiel 7:22
I will turn my face away from the people, and robbers will desecrate the place I treasure. They will enter it and will defile it. (niv)