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Jeremiah 51:51
We are ashamed because we have heard insults. Humiliation covers our faces because foreigners have entered the holy places of the Lord’s temple.
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Deuteronomy 23:3
No Ammonite or Moabite may enter the Lord’s assembly; none of their descendants, even to the tenth generation, may ever enter the Lord’s assembly.
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Nehemiah 13:1
At that time the book of Moses was read publicly to the people. The command was found written in it that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
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Lamentations 1:7
During the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her precious belongings that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into the adversary’s hand, she had no one to help. The adversaries looked at her, laughing over her downfall.
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Isaiah 64:10-11
Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.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.
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Psalms 74:4-8
Your adversaries roared in the meeting place where You met with us. They set up their emblems as signs.It was like men in a thicket of trees, wielding axes,then smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks.They set Your sanctuary on fire; they utterly desecrated the dwelling place of Your name.They said in their hearts,“ Let us oppress them relentlessly.” They burned down every place throughout the land where God met with us.
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Ezekiel 44:7
When you brought in foreigners, uncircumcised in both heart and flesh, to occupy My sanctuary, you defiled My temple while you offered My food— the fat and the blood. You broke My covenant by all your detestable practices.
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Mark 13:14
“ When you see the abomination that causes desolation standing where it should not”( let the reader understand),“ then those in Judea must flee to the mountains!
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Jeremiah 52:17-20
Now the Chaldeans broke into pieces the bronze pillars for the Lord’s temple and the water carts and the bronze reservoir that were in the Lord’s temple, and carried all the bronze to Babylon.They took the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling basins, dishes, and all the bronze articles used in the temple service.The commander of the guards took away the bowls, firepans, sprinkling basins, pots, lampstands, pans, and drink offering bowls— whatever was gold or silver.As for the two pillars, the one reservoir, and the 12 bronze bulls under the water carts that King Solomon had made for the Lord’s temple, the weight of the bronze of all these articles was beyond measure.
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Jeremiah 52:13
He burned the Lord’s temple, the king’s palace, all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the nobles.
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Psalms 79:1-7
God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance, desecrated Your holy temple, and turned Jerusalem into ruins.They gave the corpses of Your servants to the birds of the sky for food, the flesh of Your godly ones to the beasts of the earth.They poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.We have become an object of reproach to our neighbors, a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us.How long, Yahweh? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy keep burning like fire?Pour out Your wrath on the nations that don’t acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that don’t call on Your name,for they have devoured Jacob and devastated his homeland.
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Isaiah 5:13-14
Therefore My people will go into exile because they lack knowledge; her dignitaries are starving, and her masses are parched with thirst.Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s dignitaries, her masses, her crowds, and those who carouse in her!
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Isaiah 63:18
Your holy people had a possession for a little while, but our enemies have trampled down Your sanctuary.
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Jeremiah 20:5
I will give away all the wealth of this city, all its products and valuables. Indeed, I will hand all the treasures of the kings of Judah over to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them off to Babylon.
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Ezekiel 7:22
I will turn My face from the wicked as they profane My treasured place. Violent men will enter it and profane it.
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Jeremiah 15:13
I will give up your wealth and your treasures as plunder, without cost, for all your sins in all your borders.
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Ezekiel 9:7
Then He said to them,“ Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go!” So they went out killing people in the city.