Ezekiel 7:21

Then I will give those things into the hand of strangers as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as plunder, 1 and they will defile them. 1

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And I will give it into the hands of the strangers for a prey, and to the wicked of the earth for a spoil; and they shall pollute it.

In Context

20In their pride they took the beauty of his jeweled ornaments, and with them they made their idolatrous figures, and their detestable things. Therefore, I am turning these into an unclean thing to them. 1

22Then I will turn my face away from them when they defile my cherished place; 1 bandits will enter it and defile it. 1

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Cross References

2 Kings 25:9He burned the house of Yahweh, the king's palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem; also every important building in the city he burned.

2 Chronicles 36:18All the furnishings of the house of God, great and small, the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king and his officials—all these he took to Babylon.

Psalms 79:1God, foreign nations have come into your inheritance; 1 they have defiled your holy temple; 1 they have turned Jerusalem into a heap of ruins. 1

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 7:17-23

The Desolation of Israel. ( b. c. 594.) 16 But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity. 17 All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water. 18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads. 19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold… Read the whole commentary →

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