And he set a carved image, the idol 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 before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much according to all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
And among the sons of the priests there were found some that had taken foreign wives: namely, of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brothers; Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.
What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has committed lewdness with many, and the holy flesh has passed from you? when you do evil, then you rejoice.
Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink bitter water: for from the prophets of Jerusalem has profaneness gone out into all the land.
My people have been lost sheep: their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains: they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting place.
For from the least of them even to the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely.
For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, says the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall inherit them: for every one from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the priest every one deals falsely.
Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom you have done this. Shall the women eat the fruit of their body, and children carried in their arms? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
For when they had slain their children for their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of my house.
And the Levites that have gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, who went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.
As for the beauty of his ornament, he established it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things in it: therefore have I set it far from them.
And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.
And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD’S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty five men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshiped the sun toward the east.