They have set fire to Your sanctuary; They have defiled the dwelling place of Your name to the ground.
Parallel translations
- WEB They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
- KJV They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
- BSB They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.
- 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 25:9He burned Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.
- 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.
- Matt 22:7When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
- Ps 89:39You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.
- 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.
- Deut 12:5But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and there you shall come.
- Lam 2:2The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; he has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
- 1 Kgs 8:20Yahweh has established his word that he spoke; for I have risen up in the place of David my father, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as Yahweh promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- Exod 20:24You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.
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