2 Chronicles 36:14
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14 Moreover all the leaders of the priests and the people transgressed more and more, according to all the abominations of the nations, and defiled the house of the Lord which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
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Daniel 9:8
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8 “O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You.
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Zephaniah 3:3-4
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3 (A)Her princes in her midst are roaring lions;
Her judges are (B)evening wolves
That leave not a bone till morning.
4 Her (C)prophets are insolent, treacherous people;
Her priests have [a]polluted the sanctuary,
They have done (D)violence to the law.
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- Zephaniah 3:4 Or profaned
Micah 7:2
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2 The (A)faithful[a] man has perished from the earth,
And there is no one upright among men.
They all lie in wait for blood;
(B)Every man hunts his brother with a net.
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- Micah 7:2 Or loyal
Micah 3:9-11
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9 Now hear this,
You heads of the house of Jacob
And rulers of the house of Israel,
Who abhor justice
And [a]pervert all equity,
10 (A)Who build up Zion with (B)bloodshed
And Jerusalem with iniquity:
11 (C)Her heads judge for a bribe,
(D)Her priests teach for pay,
And her prophets divine for [b]money.
(E)Yet they lean on the Lord, and say,
“Is not the Lord among us?
No harm can come upon us.”
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- Micah 3:9 Lit. twist
- Micah 3:11 Lit. silver
Micah 3:1-4
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Wicked Rulers and Prophets
3 And I said:
“Hear now, O heads of Jacob,
And you (A)rulers of the house of Israel:
(B)Is it not for you to know justice?
2 You who hate good and love evil;
Who strip the skin from [a]My people,
And the flesh from their bones;
3 Who also (C)eat the flesh of My people,
Flay their skin from them,
Break their bones,
And chop them in pieces
Like meat for the pot,
(D)Like flesh in the caldron.”
4 Then (E)they will cry to the Lord,
But He will not hear them;
He will even hide His face from them at that time,
Because they have been evil in their deeds.
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- Micah 3:2 Lit. them
Daniel 9:6
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6 (A)Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land.
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Ezekiel 22:26-28
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26 (A)Her priests have [a]violated My law and (B)profaned My holy things; they have not (C)distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. 27 Her (D)princes in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy [b]people, and to get dishonest gain. 28 (E)Her prophets plastered them with untempered mortar, (F)seeing false visions, and divining (G)lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ when the Lord had not spoken.
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- Ezekiel 22:26 Lit. done violence to
- Ezekiel 22:27 Lit. souls
Ezekiel 22:6
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6 “Look, (A)the princes of Israel: each one has used his [a]power to shed blood in you.
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- Ezekiel 22:6 Lit. arm
Ezekiel 8:5-16
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5 Then He said to me, “Son of man, lift your eyes now toward the north.” So I lifted my eyes toward the north, and there, north of the altar gate, was this image of jealousy in the entrance.
6 Furthermore He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they are doing, the great (A)abominations that the house of Israel commits here, to make Me go far away from My sanctuary? Now turn again, you will see greater abominations.” 7 So He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, there was a hole in the wall. 8 Then He said to me, “Son of man, dig into the wall”; and when I dug into the wall, there was a door.
9 And He said to me, “Go in, and see the wicked abominations which they are doing there.” 10 So I went in and saw, and there—every (B)sort of (C)creeping thing, abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, [a]portrayed all around on the walls. 11 And there stood before them (D)seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel, and in their midst stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan. Each man had a censer in his hand, and a thick 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 do in the dark, every man in the room of his idols? For they say, (E)‘The Lord does not see us, the Lord has forsaken the land.’ ”
13 And He said to me, “Turn again, and you will see greater abominations that they are doing.” 14 So He brought me to the door of the north gate of the Lord’s house; and to my dismay, women were sitting there weeping for [b]Tammuz.
15 Then He said to me, “Have you seen this, O son of man? Turn again, you will see greater abominations than these.” 16 So He brought me into the inner court of the Lord’s house; and there, at the door of the temple of the Lord, (F)between the porch and the altar, (G)were about twenty-five men (H)with their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, and they were worshiping (I)the sun toward the east.
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- Ezekiel 8:10 Or carved
- Ezekiel 8:14 A Sumerian fertility god similar to the Gr. god Adonis
Jeremiah 38:4
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4 Therefore the princes said to the king, “Please, (A)let this man be put to death, for thus he [a]weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, by speaking such words to them. For this man does not seek the [b]welfare of this people, but their harm.”
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- Jeremiah 38:4 Is discouraging
- Jeremiah 38:4 Well-being; lit. peace
Jeremiah 37:13-15
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13 And when he was in the Gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there whose name was Irijah the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he seized Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”
14 Then Jeremiah said, [a]“False! I am not defecting to the Chaldeans.” But he did not listen to him.
So Irijah seized Jeremiah and brought him to the princes. 15 Therefore the princes were angry with Jeremiah, and they struck him (A)and put him in prison in the (B)house of Jonathan the scribe. For they had made that the prison.
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- Jeremiah 37:14 a lie
Jeremiah 5:5
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5 I will go to the great men and speak to them,
For (A)they have known the way of the Lord,
The judgment of their God.”
But these have altogether (B)broken the yoke
And burst the bonds.
Ezra 9:7
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7 Since the days of our fathers to this day (A)we have been very guilty, and for our iniquities (B)we, our kings, and our priests have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the (C)sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to (D)humiliation,[a] as it is this day.
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- Ezra 9:7 Lit. shame of faces
2 Chronicles 33:9
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9 So Manasseh seduced Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel.
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2 Chronicles 33:4-7
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4 He also 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 (B)in the two courts of the house of the Lord. 6 (C)Also he caused his sons to pass through the fire in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom; he practiced (D)soothsaying, used witchcraft and sorcery, and (E)consulted mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger. 7 (F)He even set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the [a]house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, (G)“In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;
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- 2 Chronicles 33:7 Temple
2 Chronicles 28:3
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3 He burned incense in (A)the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and burned (B)his children in the (C)fire, according to the abominations of the nations whom the Lord had (D)cast out before the children of Israel.
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2 Kings 16:10-16
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10 Now King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus; and King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the design of the altar and its pattern, according to all its workmanship. 11 Then (A)Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus. So Urijah the priest made it before King Ahaz came back from Damascus. 12 And when the king came back from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and (B)the king approached the altar and made offerings on it. 13 So he burned his burnt offering and his grain offering; and he poured his drink offering and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on the altar. 14 He also brought (C)the bronze altar which was before the Lord, from the front of the [a]temple—from between the new altar and the house of the Lord—and put it on the north side of the new altar. 15 Then King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, “On the great new altar burn (D)the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, the king’s burnt sacrifice, and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their grain offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice. And the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.” 16 Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that King Ahaz commanded.
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- 2 Kings 16:14 Lit. house
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