They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
Parallel translations
- WEB They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
- BSB They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.
- NKJV They have set fire to Your sanctuary; They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground.
- NASB They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name.
- NLT They burned your sanctuary to the ground. They defiled the place that bears your name.
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They burned God's sanctuary to the ground and profaned the dwelling place of his Name.
Overview
The climax of the desecration is the burning of the temple, the place God had chosen for his Name to dwell. To profane it was to assault God's honor directly. Yet this very loss prepares the way for the greater dwelling of God among his people in Christ and ultimately in the new creation (Revelation 21:3).
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- 2 Kgs 25:9And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire.
- Ezek 24:21Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.
- Matt 22:7But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
- Ps 89:39Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
- Isa 64:11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
- Deut 12:5But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
- Lam 2:2The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
- 1 Kgs 8:20And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.
- Exod 20:24An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
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