14 therefore I will do to the house which is called by My name, in which you trust, and to this place which I gave to you and your fathers, as I have done to (A)Shiloh.

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(A)Do not trust in these lying words, saying, ‘The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord are these.’

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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’?

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(A)He burned the house of the Lord (B)and the king’s house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, (C)he burned with fire.

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52 “They shall (A)besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the Lord your God has given you.

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13 They also set up false witnesses who said, “This man does not cease to speak [a]blasphemous words against this holy place and the law; 14 (A)for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs which Moses delivered to us.”

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  1. Acts 6:13 NU omits blasphemous

Jesus Predicts the Destruction of the Temple(A)

24 Then (B)Jesus went out and departed from the temple, and His disciples came up to show Him the buildings of the temple. And Jesus said to them, “Do you not see all these things? Assuredly, I say to you, (C)not one stone shall be left here upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”

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11 (A)Her heads judge for a bribe,
(B)Her priests teach for pay,
And her prophets divine for [a]money.
(C)Yet they lean on the Lord, and say,
“Is not the Lord among us?
No harm can come upon us.”
12 Therefore because of you
Zion shall be (D)plowed like a field,
(E)Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins,
And (F)the mountain of the [b]temple
Like the bare hills of the forest.

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  1. Micah 3:11 Lit. silver
  2. Micah 3:12 Lit. house

21 ‘Speak to the house of Israel, “Thus says the Lord God: ‘Behold, (A)I will profane My sanctuary, [a]your arrogant boast, the desire of your eyes, the [b]delight of your soul; (B)and your sons and daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.

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  1. Ezekiel 24:21 Lit. the pride of your strength
  2. Ezekiel 24:21 Lit. compassion

To the others He said in my [a]hearing, “Go after him through the city and (A)kill;[b] (B)do not let your eye spare, nor have any pity. (C)Utterly[c] slay old and young men, maidens and little children and women; but (D)do not come near anyone on whom is the mark; and (E)begin at My sanctuary.” (F)So they began with the elders who were before the [d]temple. Then He said to them, “Defile the [e]temple, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” And they went out and killed in the city.

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  1. Ezekiel 9:5 Lit. ears
  2. Ezekiel 9:5 Lit. strike
  3. Ezekiel 9:6 Lit. Slay to destruction
  4. Ezekiel 9:6 Lit. house
  5. Ezekiel 9:7 Lit. house

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.
21 I will give it as (B)plunder
Into the hands of strangers,
And to the wicked of the earth as spoil;
And they shall defile it.
22 I will turn My face from them,
And they will defile My secret place;
For robbers shall enter it and defile it.

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The Degradation of Zion

How the gold has become dim!
How changed the fine gold!
The stones of the sanctuary are [a]scattered
At the head of every street.

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  1. Lamentations 4:1 Lit. poured out

The Lord has spurned His altar,
He has (A)abandoned His sanctuary;
He has [a]given up the walls of her palaces
Into the hand of the enemy.
(B)They have made a noise in the house of the Lord
As on the day of a set feast.

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  1. Lamentations 2:7 delivered

13 He burned the house of the Lord and the king’s house; all the houses of Jerusalem, that is, all the houses of the great, he burned with fire. 14 And all the army of the Chaldeans who were with the captain of the guard broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around. 15 (A)Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poor people, the rest of the people who remained in the city, the defectors who had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen. 16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poor of the land as vinedressers and farmers.

17 (B)The (C)bronze pillars that were in the house of the Lord, and the carts and the bronze Sea that were in the house of the Lord, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all their bronze to Babylon. 18 They also took away (D)the pots, the shovels, the trimmers, the [a]bowls, the spoons, and all the bronze utensils with which the priests ministered. 19 The basins, the firepans, the bowls, the pots, the lampstands, the spoons, and the cups, whatever was solid gold and whatever was solid silver, the captain of the guard took away. 20 The two pillars, one Sea, the twelve bronze bulls which were under it, and the carts, which King Solomon had made for the house of the Lord(E)the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure. 21 Now concerning the (F)pillars: the height of one pillar was eighteen [b]cubits, a measuring line of twelve cubits could measure its circumference, and its thickness was [c]four fingers; it was hollow. 22 A capital of bronze was on it; and the height of one capital was five cubits, with a network and pomegranates all around the capital, all of bronze. The second pillar, with pomegranates was the same. 23 There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; (G)all the pomegranates, all around on the network, were one hundred.

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  1. Jeremiah 52:18 basins
  2. Jeremiah 52:21 18 inches each
  3. Jeremiah 52:21 3 inches

18 (A)“Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts:

(B)“Zion shall be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem shall become (C)heaps of ruins,
And the mountain of the [a]temple
Like the [b]bare hills of the forest.” ’

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  1. Jeremiah 26:18 Lit. house
  2. Jeremiah 26:18 Lit. high places

then I will make this house like (A)Shiloh, and will make this city (B)a curse to all the nations of the earth.” ’ ”

So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord. Now it happened, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak to all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, “You will surely die! Why have you prophesied in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be (C)desolate, without an inhabitant’?” And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the Lord.

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12 “But go now to (A)My place which was in Shiloh, (B)where I set My name at the first, and see (C)what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel.

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11 Our holy and beautiful [a]temple,
Where our fathers praised You,
Is burned up with fire;
And all (A)our pleasant things [b]are laid waste.

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  1. Isaiah 64:11 Lit. house
  2. Isaiah 64:11 have become a ruin

60 (A)So that He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh,
The tent He had placed among men,

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And now they break down its carved work, all at once,
With axes and hammers.
They have set fire to Your sanctuary;
They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground.
(A)They said in their hearts,
“Let us [a]destroy them altogether.”
They have burned up all the meeting places of God in the land.

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  1. Psalm 74:8 oppress

18 (A)And all the articles from the house of God, great and small, the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king and of his leaders, all these he took to Babylon. 19 (B)Then they burned the house of God, broke down the wall of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all its precious possessions.

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21 “And as for (A)this [a]house, which [b]is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be (B)astonished and say, (C)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and this house?’

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  1. 2 Chronicles 7:21 Temple
  2. 2 Chronicles 7:21 Or was

(A)then I will [a]cut off Israel from the land which I have given them; and this house which I have consecrated (B)for My name I will cast out of My sight. (C)Israel will be a proverb and a byword among all peoples. And as for (D)this house, which is exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and will hiss, and say, (E)‘Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’

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  1. 1 Kings 9:7 destroy

10 So the Philistines fought, and (A)Israel was [a]defeated, and every man fled to his tent. There was a very great slaughter, and there fell of Israel thirty thousand foot soldiers. 11 Also (B)the ark of God was captured; and (C)the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, died.

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  1. 1 Samuel 4:10 Lit. struck down

“But you shall seek the (A)place where the Lord your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His (B)dwelling[a] place; and there you shall go.

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  1. Deuteronomy 12:5 home

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