For you took My silver and gold and carried My finest treasures to your temples.

你们既然夺取我的金银，又将我可爱的宝物带入你们宫殿，

你们夺取我的金银，把我珍贵的宝物带入你们的庙宇，

你们夺取我的金银，把我珍贵的宝物带入你们的庙宇，

你们夺去我的金银，抢走我的珍宝，拿去放在你们的庙中，

你们拿去了我的金银，又把我的珍宝带进了你们的庙宇。

你們既然奪取我的金銀，又將我可愛的寶物帶入你們宮殿，

你們奪取我的金銀，把我珍貴的寶物帶入你們的廟宇，

你們奪取我的金銀，把我珍貴的寶物帶入你們的廟宇，

你們奪去我的金銀，搶走我的珍寶，拿去放在你們的廟中，

你們拿去了我的金銀，又把我的珍寶帶進了你們的廟宇。

我的金銀你們既拿取了，我的珍貴寶物你們既帶進了你們的宮殿，

爾既刦我金銀、以我珍寶、攜入爾宮、

爾刧我金銀、奪我珍器、入爾宮殿、

爾奪我金銀、以我可悅之寶物、攜入爾宮、

For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.

You took my silver and gold. You carried off my finest treasures to your temples.

For you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.

You have taken my silver and gold and all my precious treasures, and have carried them off to your pagan temples.

For you took my silver and gold and carried my finest treasures to your temples.

Since you have taken My silver and My gold, brought My precious treasures to your temples,

Because you have taken My silver and My gold, And have carried into your temples My prized possessions.

Forasmuch as ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly precious things,

Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:

For you took my silver and my gold and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.

Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my finest treasures into your temples,

The Lord put it into the mind of the Philistines and the Arabs who live near the Cushites to attack Jehoram.So they went to war against Judah and invaded it. They carried off all the possessions found in the king’s palace and also his sons and wives; not a son was left to him except Jehoahaz, his youngest son.

So King Joash of Judah took all the consecrated items that his ancestors— Judah’s kings Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah— had consecrated, along with his own consecrated items and all the gold found in the treasuries of the Lord’s temple and in the king’s palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram. Then Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.

Now the Chaldeans broke into pieces the bronze pillars of the Lord’s temple, the water carts, and the bronze reservoir, which were in the Lord’s temple, and carried the bronze to Babylon.They also took the pots, the shovels, the wick trimmers, the dishes, and all the bronze articles used in temple service.The commander of the guards took away the firepans and the sprinkling basins— whatever was gold or silver.As for the two pillars, the one reservoir, and the water carts that Solomon had made for the Lord’s temple, the weight of the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure.One pillar was 27 feet tall and had a bronze capital on top of it. The capital, encircled by a grating and pomegranates of bronze, stood five feet high. The second pillar was the same, with its own grating.

Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels that his predecessor Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, wives, and concubines could drink from them.So they brought in the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, wives, and concubines drank from them.

Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The Lord has put it into the mind of the kings of the Medes because His plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the Lord’s vengeance, vengeance for His temple.

Instead, he will honor a god of fortresses— a god his fathers did not know— with gold, silver, precious stones, and riches.

brought it into the temple of Dagon and placed it next to his statue.When the people of Ashdod got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen with his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and returned him to his place.But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen with his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord. This time, both Dagon’s head and the palms of his hands were broken off and lying on the threshold. Only Dagon’s torso remained.That is why, to this day, the priests of Dagon and everyone who enters the temple of Dagon in Ashdod do not step on Dagon’s threshold.

“ There is a voice of fugitives and those who escape from the land of Babylon announcing in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, the vengeance for His temple.

So Hezekiah gave him all the silver found in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the king’s palace.At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the Lord’s sanctuary and from the doorposts he had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.

Ahaz also took the silver and gold found in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the king’s palace and sent them to the king of Assyria as a gift.

He also carried off from there all the treasures of the Lord’s temple and the treasures of the king’s palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made for the Lord’s sanctuary, just as God had predicted.