2 Chronicles 36:14
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14 All the officers of the priests and the people likewise were exceedingly unfaithful, following all the abominations of the nations. And they polluted the house of the Lord that he had made holy in Jerusalem.
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Daniel 9:8
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8 To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because (A)we have sinned against you.
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Micah 7:2
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2 (A)The godly has perished from the earth,
and (B)there is no one upright among mankind;
(C)they all lie in wait for blood,
and (D)each hunts the other with a net.
Micah 3:9-11
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9 (A)Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel,
(B)who detest justice
and make crooked all that is straight,
10 (C)who build Zion with blood
and Jerusalem with iniquity.
11 (D)Its heads give judgment for a bribe;
(E)its priests teach for a price;
(F)its prophets practice divination for money;
(G)yet they lean on the Lord and (H)say,
“Is not the Lord in the midst of us?
(I)No disaster shall come upon us.”
Micah 3:1-4
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Rulers and Prophets Denounced
3 And I said:
(A)Hear, you heads of Jacob
and rulers of the house of Israel!
(B)Is it not for you to know justice?—
2 you (C)who hate the good and love the evil,
(D)who tear the skin from off my people[a]
and their flesh from off their bones,
3 (E)who eat the flesh of my people,
and flay their skin from off them,
and break their bones in pieces
and chop them up like meat in a pot,
like flesh in a cauldron.
4 (F)Then they will cry to the Lord,
but he will not answer them;
(G)he will hide his face from them at that time,
because they have made their deeds evil.
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- Micah 3:2 Hebrew from off them
Daniel 9:6
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6 (A)We have not listened to (B)your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to (C)our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
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Ezekiel 22:26-28
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26 (A)Her priests (B)have done violence to my law and (C)have profaned my holy things. (D)They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and (E)they have disregarded my Sabbaths, (F)so that I am profaned among them. 27 (G)Her princes in her midst are like wolves (H)tearing the prey, (I)shedding blood, destroying lives to get dishonest gain. 28 And (J)her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, (K)seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord has not spoken.
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Ezekiel 22:6
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6 “Behold, (A)the princes of Israel in you, every one according to his power, have been bent on shedding blood.
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Ezekiel 8:5-16
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5 Then he said to me, (A)“Son of man, lift up your eyes now toward the north.” So I lifted up my eyes toward the north, and behold, north of (B)the altar gate, in the entrance, was this (C)image of jealousy. 6 And he said to me, “Son of man, (D)do you see what they are doing, (E)the great abominations that the house of Israel are committing here, (F)to drive me far from my sanctuary? But you will see still greater abominations.”
7 And he brought me to the entrance of the court, and when I looked, behold, there was a hole in the wall. 8 Then he said to me, “Son of man, (G)dig in the wall.” So I dug in the wall, and behold, there was an entrance. 9 And he said to me, “Go in, and see (H)the vile abominations that they are committing here.” 10 So I went in and saw. And there, (I)engraved on the wall all around, was (J)every form of (K)creeping things and loathsome beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel. 11 And before them stood (L)seventy men of (M)the elders of the house of Israel, with Jaazaniah the son of (N)Shaphan standing among them. Each had his censer in his hand, and (O)the smoke of the cloud of incense went up. 12 Then he said to me, “Son of man, have you seen what the elders of the house of Israel are doing (P)in the dark, each (Q)in his room of pictures? For they say, (R)‘The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.’” 13 He said also to me, (S)“You will see still greater abominations that they commit.”
14 Then he brought me to (T)the entrance of the north gate of the house of the Lord, and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. 15 Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, O (U)son of man? (V)You will see still greater abominations than these.”
16 And he brought me into (W)the inner court of the house of the Lord. And behold, at the entrance of the temple of the Lord, (X)between the (Y)porch and (Z)the altar, were about twenty-five men, (AA)with their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces toward the east, worshiping (AB)the sun toward the east.
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Jeremiah 38:4
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4 Then the officials said to the king, (A)“Let this man be put to death, (B)for he is weakening the hands of the soldiers who are left in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man is not seeking (C)the welfare of this people, but their harm.”
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Jeremiah 37:13-15
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13 When he was at (A)the Benjamin Gate, a sentry there named Irijah the son of (B)Shelemiah, son of Hananiah, seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, (C)“You are deserting to the Chaldeans.” 14 And Jeremiah said, “It is a lie; I am not deserting to the Chaldeans.” But Irijah would not listen to him, and seized Jeremiah and brought him to (D)the officials. 15 And the officials were enraged at Jeremiah, and they beat him (E)and imprisoned him in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for it had been made a prison.
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Jeremiah 5:5
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5 I will go to the great
and will speak to them,
for they know the way of the Lord,
the justice of their God.”
(A)But they all alike had broken the yoke;
they had burst the bonds.
Ezra 9:7
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7 (A)From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great (B)guilt. And for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, (C)and to utter shame, as it is today.
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2 Chronicles 33:9
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9 Manasseh led Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem astray, to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord destroyed before the people of Israel.
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2 Chronicles 33:4-7
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4 And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, (A)“In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.” 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in (B)the two courts of the house of the Lord. 6 (C)And he burned his sons as an offering (D)in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and (E)used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with (F)mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger. 7 And (G)the carved image of the idol that he had made he set in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, (H)I will put my name forever,
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2 Chronicles 28:3
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3 and (A)he made offerings in the (B)Valley of the Son of Hinnom and (C)burned his sons as an offering,[a] according to (D)the abominations of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel.
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- 2 Chronicles 28:3 Hebrew made his sons pass through the fire
2 Kings 16:10-16
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10 When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet (A)Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, he saw the altar that was at Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to (B)Uriah the priest a model of the altar, and its pattern, exact in all its details. 11 And Uriah the priest built the altar; in accordance with all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so Uriah the priest made it, before King Ahaz arrived from Damascus. 12 And when the king came from Damascus, the king viewed the altar. (C)Then the king drew near to the altar and went up on it 13 and burned his burnt offering and his grain offering and poured his drink offering and threw the blood of his peace offerings on the altar. 14 And (D)the bronze altar that was before the Lord he removed (E)from the front of the house, from the place between (F)his altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of (G)his altar. 15 And King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn (H)the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering and the king's burnt offering and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering and their drink offering. And throw on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice, but (I)the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.” 16 Uriah the priest did all this, as King Ahaz commanded.
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