Ezekiel 7:20 Cross References - Thomson

²⁰ With their choice apparel which was laid by for ostentation; even with this they adorned the images of their abominations; therefore I have given it to them for defilement;

⁴ He even built an altar in the house of the Lord. Though the Lord had said, In Jerusalem I will put my name;

⁷ Nay, he placed the graven image of the bower in the very house, concerning which the Lord had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will place my name forever,

¹¹ And he burned the houses which the kings of Juda had dedicated to the sun at the entrance of the house of the Lord, at the treasury office of Nathan, the king's chamberlain, at Pharurim. He burned also with fire the chariot of the sun, ¹² and the altars which were on the roof of Achaz's chamber, which the king's of Juda had erected? and he pulled down the altars which Manasses had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, and having dragged them out thence piece meal, he threw the rubbish of them into the brook Kedron.

¹ Then king David said to all the congregation, My son Solomon whom the Lord hath chosen, is young and tender, and the work is great; for it is not for man but for the Lord God. ² According to my utmost ability I have provided for the house of my God, gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, stones of Soam, and stones to be set, precious and variegated, every kind of precious stones, and Parian marble in abundance.

⁹ to provide me timber in plenty: for the house which I am going to build, is to be great and glorious.

¹ At length Solomon began building the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, on mount Amoria, where the Lord appeared to his father David; in the place which David had prepared at the threshing floor of Orna, the Jebusite. ² He began building in the second month, in the fourth year of his reign. ³ And these were the mensurations, with which Solomon began to build the house of God. ⁴ The first measurement was in length sixty cubits, and in breadth twenty cubits, including an ailam in front of the house of the same breadth, as that of the house, twenty cubits, and the height of which was a hundred and twenty cubits. And he overlaid the house on the inside, with pure gold. ⁵ When he had wainscotted this great house with planks of cedar, he overlaid them with pure gold, and engraved upon it, palm trees and chains, ⁶ and he adorned the house with precious stones for glory, and gilded it with the choicest gold from Pharuim; ⁷ and having gilded the house, both the walls and the gates, and the vaulted ceilings, and the doors, with gold, he engraved cherubims on the walls. ⁸ And he made the house of the Holy of Holies. Its breadth was in front, the same as that of the house, twenty cubits and its length twenty cubits; and he overlaid it for cherubims, with pure gold, to the amount of six hundred talents; ⁹ and with regard to the weight of the nails, each nail weighed fifty shekels of gold. The upper chamber he overlaid with gold. ¹⁰ And in this house, namely in the Holy of Holies, he made two cherubims, a workmanship of wood, and overlaid them with gold. ¹¹ The extent of the wings of the cherubims was twenty cubits, ¹² one wing of five cubits touching the wall of the house, and the other wing of five cubits, touching the wing of the other cherubim reciprocally; ¹³ so that the wings of the cherubims, were expanded twenty cubits, and they stood upon their feet and their faces were towards the house. ¹⁴ And he made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet and cotton yarn, and wove cherubims therein. ¹⁵ And he made before the house two pillars thirty five cubits high, including the chapiters of five cubits. ¹⁶ And he made net works and put them on the chapiters of the pillars, and he made a hundred pomegranates, and fixed them to the net works. ¹⁷ And he reared up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right, and one on the left, and he called the name of that on the right Rectitude, and the name of that on the left, Strength.

⁴ Nay, he built altars in the house of the Lord, respecting which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem my name shall be forever; ⁵ he built altars for the whole host of heaven, in the two courts of the house of the Lord. ⁶ And he made his children pass through fire in the land of Benennom. And he consulted omens and auguries, and used enchantments and encouraged belly speakers and sorcerers, and multiplied the ways of doing evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to wrath. ⁷ He actually set up the graven and molten image which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put my name forever,

¹⁴ Now all the nobles of Juda, and the priests, and the people of the land abounded in the commission of the wicked abominations of the Gentiles, and had polluted the house of the Lord in Jerusalem.

¹² But many of the priests and Levites, and the old chiefs of families, who with their eyes had seen the former house on its foundations, and now saw this, wept aloud, while the people were shouting for joy to swell the song;

² To the great joy of the whole earth, he is establishing firmly Sion's mountains. On the sides to the north is the city of the great king.

² Out of Sion the perfection of his comeliness;

² The Lord loveth the gates of Sion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. ³ Glorious things have been said of thee, city of God.

¹¹ The house, our sanctuary; even that glory which our fathers blessed, is utterly burnt up with fire, and all our glorious things are in ruins;

¹⁴ I therefore will do to this house which is called by my name, and in which you have placed your confidence; and to this place which I gave to you and your fathers; as I did to Selo.

³⁰ Because the children of Juda have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord, have set up their abominations in the house called by my name, to pollute it;

¹⁰ On all the objects of her desire the oppressor hath laid his hand; for into her sanctuary she saw nations entering, concerning whom thou hast commanded that they should not come into thy congregation.

¹ Oh! how the Lord hath in his wrath covered with darkness the daughter of Sion! he hath cast down, from heaven, upon the earth, the glory of Israel; and hath not remembered his own footstool.

⁷ The Lord hath cast off his altar; he hath shaken off his sanctuary. With the hand of an enemy he hath demolished the wall of her palaces. They uttered a shout in the house of the Lord as on the day of a festival.

¹¹ For this cause, as I live saith the Lord, Because thou hast polluted my holy things with all thine abominations; therefore I will cast thee off; mine eye shall not spare nor will I have compassion.

²² And I will turn away my face from them; and they shall pollute the places under my peculiar inspection, and come into them unobserved, and profane them

⁷ Then he led me into the vestibule of the court, ⁸ and said to me, Son of man, dig. So I digged and lo! a door. ⁹ And he said to me, Go in and see the transgressions which they are committing here. ¹⁰ So I went in and beheld, and lo! vain abominations and all the idols of the house of Israel portrayed upon them round about

¹⁵ And he said to me, Son of man, hast thou seen? Thou shalt see still worse devices than these. ¹⁶ Then he led me into the inner court of the house of the Lord; and at the vestibule of the temple of the Lord, between the ailams and the altar, were about twenty men; their backs to the temple of the Lord, and their faces the direct contrary way; and they were worshipping the sun.

⁷ And he said to them, Defile this house and fill the ways with dead as you are going out and continue the slaughter.

²¹ Say to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord, Behold I will profane my sanctuary, the boast of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and for which your souls are moved with compassion; and your sons and your daughters whom you left shall fall by the sword:

³ Is there any of you who hath seen this house in its former glory? How then must you look upon this now as a mere nothing before you!