Ezekiel 7:20
His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.
Cross References
Jeremiah 7:30
For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My name, and so have defiled it.

Lamentations 2:7
The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has handed the walls of her palaces over to the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.

Ezekiel 5:11
Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare you.

Ezekiel 9:7
Then He told them, "Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth!" So they went out and began killing throughout the city.

Ezekiel 11:18
When they return to it, they will remove from it all its detestable things and all its abominations.

Ezekiel 23:38
They have also done to Me this: On that very same day they defiled My sanctuary and profaned My Sabbaths.

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the beauty

Ezekiel 24:21
Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: 'I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul. And the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.

1 Chronicles 29:1, 2
Then King David said to the whole assembly, "My son Solomon, whom alone God has chosen, is young and inexperienced. The task is great because this palace will not be for man, but for the LORD God. . . .

2 Chronicles 2:9
to prepare for me timber in abundance, because the temple I am building will be great and wonderful.

Ezra 3:12
But many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads who had seen the first temple wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple. Still, many others shouted joyfully.

Psalm 48:2
Beautiful in loftiness, the joy of all the earth, like the peaks of Zaphron is Mount Zion, the city of the great King.

Psalm 50:2
From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.

Psalm 87:2, 3
The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. . . .

Isaiah 64:11
Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.

Haggai 2:3
Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Does it not appear to you like nothing in comparison?'

but.

Ezekiel 5:11
Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare you.

Ezekiel 8:7-10, 15, 16
Then He brought me to the entrance of the court, and I looked and saw a hole in the wall. . . .

2 Kings 21:4, 7
Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "In Jerusalem I will put My Name." . . .

2 Kings 23:11
And he removed from the entrance to the house of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near the chamber of an official named Nathan-melech. And Josiah burned up the chariots of the sun.

2 Kings 12:2
And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days he was instructed by Jehoiada the priest.

2 Chronicles 33:4-7
Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, "My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever." . . .

2 Chronicles 36:14
Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 7:30
For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My name, and so have defiled it.

set it far from them.

Ezekiel 7:22
I will turn My face away from them, as they defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it and they will defile it.

Ezekiel 9:7
Then He told them, "Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth!" So they went out and began killing throughout the city.

Ezekiel 24:21
Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: 'I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul. And the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.

Jeremiah 7:14
therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.

Lamentations 1:10
The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary--those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.

Lamentations 2:1, 7
How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with His cloud of anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger. . . .

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