Ezekiel 23:39
On the very day that they killed their children for their idols, they went into my sanctuary and made it unclean. Look at what they did right inside my Temple!
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2 Kings 21:4He set up pagan altars in the Lord's Temple, right where the Lord had said, “I will place my name in Jerusalem forever.”
2 Chronicles 33:4He built altars in the Lord's Temple, about which the Lord had said, “I shall be honored in Jerusalem forever.”
Jeremiah 7:8But look at you! You go on believing in these deceptions, these worthless words.
Jeremiah 23:11Both prophets and priests show no respect for me. I see wickedness even in my Temple, declares the Lord.
Ezekiel 23:38They also did this to me: On the very same day they both made my sanctuary unclean and violated my Sabbaths.
Micah 3:11Your leaders judge for a bribe, and your priests teach for a price, and your prophets only prophesy for pay. Yet they all lean on the Lord saying, “Isn't the Lord here with us? Nothing bad can happen to us!”
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 23:37-49
Israel and Judah Accused; Judgments Predicted. ( b. c. 591.) 36 The Lord said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations; 37 That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them. 38 Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have… Read the whole commentary →