Jeremiah 23:11
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11 “For (A)both prophet and priest are profane;
Yes, (B)in My house I have found their wickedness,” says the Lord.
Zephaniah 3:4
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4 Her (A)prophets are insolent, treacherous people;
Her priests have [a]polluted the sanctuary,
They have done (B)violence to the law.
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- Zephaniah 3:4 Or profaned
Jeremiah 6:13
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13 “Because from the least of them even to the greatest of them,
Everyone is given to (A)covetousness;
And from the prophet even to the (B)priest,
Everyone deals falsely.
Matthew 21:12-13
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Jesus Cleanses the Temple(A)
12 (B)Then Jesus went into the temple [a]of God and drove out all those who bought and sold in the temple, and overturned the tables of the (C)money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. 13 And He said to them, “It is written, (D)‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a (E)‘den of thieves.’ ”
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- Matthew 21:12 NU omits of God
Ezekiel 23:39
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39 For after they had slain their children for their idols, on the same day they came into My sanctuary to profane it; and indeed (A)thus they have done in the midst of My house.
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Jeremiah 32:34
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34 But they (A)set their abominations in [a]the house which is called by My name, to defile it.
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- Jeremiah 32:34 The temple
Ezekiel 8:16
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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, (A)between the porch and the altar, (B)were about twenty-five men (C)with their backs toward the temple of the Lord and their faces toward the east, and they were worshiping (D)the sun toward the east.
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Jeremiah 11:15
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15 “What(A) has My beloved to do in My house,
Having (B)done lewd deeds with many?
And (C)the holy flesh has passed from you.
When you do evil, then you (D)rejoice.
Jeremiah 8:10
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10 Therefore (A)I will give their wives to others,
And their fields to those who will inherit them;
Because from the least even to the greatest
Everyone is given to (B)covetousness;
From the prophet even to the priest
Everyone deals falsely.
Jeremiah 7:30
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30 For the children of Judah have done evil in My sight,” says the Lord. (A)“They have set their abominations in the house which is called by My name, to [a]pollute it.
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- Jeremiah 7:30 defile
Jeremiah 7:10-11
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10 (A)and then come and stand before Me in this house (B)which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered to do all these abominations’? 11 Has (C)this house, which is called by My name, become a (D)den of thieves in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” says the Lord.
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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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Ezekiel 22:25-26
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25 (A)The conspiracy of her [a]prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they (B)have devoured [b]people; (C)they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst. 26 (D)Her priests have [c]violated My law and (E)profaned My holy things; they have not (F)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.
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- Ezekiel 22:25 So with MT, Vg.; LXX princes; Tg. scribes
- Ezekiel 22:25 Lit. souls
- Ezekiel 22:26 Lit. done violence to
Ezekiel 8:11
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11 And there stood before them (A)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.
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Ezekiel 8:5-6
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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.”
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Ezekiel 7:20
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20 ‘As for the beauty of his ornaments,
He set it in majesty;
(A)But they made from it
The images of their abominations—
Their detestable things;
Therefore I have made it
Like refuse to them.
Jeremiah 23:15
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15 “Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets:
‘Behold, I will feed them with (A)wormwood,
And make them drink the water of gall;
For from the prophets of Jerusalem
[a]Profaneness has gone out into all the land.’ ”
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- Jeremiah 23:15 Or Pollution
Jeremiah 5:31
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31 The prophets prophesy (A)falsely,
And the priests rule by their own power;
And My people (B)love to have it so.
But what will you do in the end?
2 Chronicles 33:7
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7 (A)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, (B)“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 33:5
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5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven (A)in the two courts of the house of the Lord.
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