And Jehovah said to him, I have heard your prayer and your supplication with which you have made supplication before Me; I have sanctified this house that you have built to put My name there forever; and My eyes and My heart shall be there all the days.
And he placed the engraved image of the idol that he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David, and to his son Solomon, In this house, and in Jerusalem that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever.
And you turned today, and you did right in My eyes, to call for liberty, each man to his neighbor. And you cut a covenant before Me in the house on which is called My name.
Have you forgotten the evilness of your fathers, and the evilness of the kings of Judah, and the evilness of his wives, and your own evilness, and the evilness of your wives, which they have done in the land of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
Therefore I will do to the house on which My name is called, in which you are trusting, and to the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.
For the sons of Judah have done evil in My eyes, a statement of Jehovah. They have set their abominable idols in the house on which is called My name in order to defile it.
And you, O house of Israel, so says the Lord Jehovah: Go, every man serve his idols, even hereafter, if you will not listen to Me. But you will not still profane My holy name with your gifts and with your idols.
And they shall work with you in hatred and take all your labor, and shall leave you naked and bare. And the nudity of your adulteries will be bared, even your lewdness and your fornications.
For they have done adultery, and blood is on their hands. Yea, they have done adultery with their idols, and even their sons whom they bore to Me, they cause to pass to them to be devoured.
And when they had slaughtered their sons to their idols, then they came into My sanctuary in that day to profane it. And, Behold, this they have done in the midst of My house.
Therefore say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: You eat of the blood, and you lift your eyes up to your idols, and you shed blood, and shall you possess the land?
And they come to you as peoples come, and they sit before you as My people. And they hear your words, but they do not do them. For they produce much love with their mouth, but their heart goes after their unjust gain.
Therefore, as I live, a statement of the Lord Jehovah, If not because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable things and with all your disgusting things, even I also will withdraw. And My eye shall not spare, and I will not have pity.
O my God, stretch out Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our ruins and the city which is called with Your name on it. For we do not make our prayers fall before You on account of our righteousnesses, but because of Your great mercies.
and offer a sacrifice of a thanksgiving offering that is leavened. And cry out, call out the voluntary offerings; hear them! For so you love to do, sons of Israel, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven before men; for you do not enter, nor do you allow those entering to go in.
I do not speak concerning all of you; I know whom I chose out; but that the Scripture might be fulfilled, “The one eating the bread with Me lifted up his heel against Me.” Psa. 41:9
Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas into the praetorium, and it was early. And they did not enter into the praetorium that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.