Ezekiel 7:20

They turned the beauty of God's gifts into idols and detestable images, so He made it unclean to them. Misused beauty becomes defilement.

Cross-references · 25

• Ezek 24:21Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.
• Jer 7:30“For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight,” says Yahweh. “They have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
• Ezek 8:15–16Then he said to me, “Have you seen this, son of man? You will again see yet greater abominations than these.”
• Isa 64:11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
• Ezek 8:7–10He brought me to the door of the court; and when I looked, behold, a hole in the wall.
• Ezek 9:7He said to them, “Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out!” They went out, and struck in the city.
• Ezek 5:11Therefore as I live,’ says the Lord Yahweh, ‘surely, because you have defiled my sanctuary with all your detestable things, and with all your abominations, therefore I will also diminish you. My eye won’t spare, and I will have no pity.
• 1 Chr 29:1–2David the king said to all the assembly, “Solomon my son, whom alone God has chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great; for the palace is not for man, but for Yahweh God.
• Ps 87:2–3Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
• 2 Chr 3:1–17Then Solomon began to build Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
• Jer 7:14therefore will I do to the house which is called by my name, in which you trust, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I did to Shiloh.
• Lam 1:10The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things: for she has seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.
• Ps 48:2Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.
• 2 Kgs 23:11–12He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of Yahweh’s house, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer, who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
• 2 Kgs 21:7He set the engraved image of Asherah that he had made in the house of which Yahweh 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, will I put my name forever;
• Ezra 3:12But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice. Many also shouted aloud for joy,
• 2 Chr 33:4–7He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”
• 2 Chr 2:9even to prepare me timber in abundance; for the house which I am about to build will be great and wonderful.
• Lam 2:1How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down from heaven to the earth the beauty of Israel, And hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
• 2 Kgs 21:4He built altars in Yahweh’s house, of which Yahweh said, “I will put my name in Jerusalem.”
• Ezek 7:22I will also turn my face from them, and they will profane my secret place. Robbers will enter into it, and profane it.
• Lam 2:7The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary; He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in Yahweh’s house, as in the day of a solemn assembly.
• Hag 2:3‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Isn’t it in your eyes as nothing?
• 2 Chr 36:14Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted Yahweh’s house which he had made holy in Jerusalem.
• Ps 50:2Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.

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