He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
Jeremiah 23:11 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) for both prophet and Kohen are profane; yes, in my house have I found their wickedness, says the LORD. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For both [false] prophet and priest are ungodly and profane; even in My house have I found their wickedness, says the Lord. American Standard Version (1901) for both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah. Common English Bible Both prophet and priest are godless; I even find their evil in my temple, declares the LORD. Catholic Public Domain Version "For both the prophet and the priest have become polluted, and I have found their wickedness within my own house, says the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For the prophet and the priest are defiled: and in my house I have found their wickedness, saith the Lord. |
He built altars for all the army of the sky in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Shlomo his son, In this house, and in Yerushalayim, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Yisra'el, will I put my name forever:
Moreover all the chiefs of the Kohanim, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of the LORD which he had made holy in Yerushalayim.
Among the sons of the Kohanim there were found who had married foreign women: [namely], of the sons of Yeshua, the son of Yotzadak, and his brothers, Ma`aseyah, and Eli`ezer, and Yariv, and Gedalyahu.
What has my beloved to do in my house, seeing she has worked lewdness [with] many, and the holy flesh is passed from you? when you do evil, then you rejoice.
Therefore thus says the LORD of Armies concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Yerushalayim is ungodliness gone forth into all the land.
But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
the prophets prophesy falsely, and the Kohanim bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will you do in the end of it?
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 everyone is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even to the Kohen everyone deals falsely.
For the children of Yehudah have done that which is evil in my sight, says the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
Therefore will I give their wives to others, and their fields to those who shall possess them: for everyone from the least even to the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even to the Kohen every one deals falsely.
Look, LORD, and see to whom you have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the Kohen and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.
But the Levites who went far from me, when Yisra'el went astray, who went astray from me after their idols, they shall bear their iniquity.
As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations [and] their detestable things therein: therefore have I made it to them as an unclean thing.
There stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Yisra'el; and in the midst of them stood Ya`azanyah the son of Shafan, every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went up.
He brought me into the inner court of the LORD's house; and see, 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 were worshipping the sun toward the east.
Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves. They leave nothing until the next day.
Her prophets are arrogant and treacherous people. Her Kohanim have profaned the sanctuary. They have done violence to the law.