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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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2 Kings 24 13
He also carried off from there all the treasures of the Lord’s temple and the treasures of the king’s palace, and he cut into pieces all the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made for the Lord’s sanctuary, just as God had predicted.
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Jeremiah 26:18
“ Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and said to all the people of Judah,‘ This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become ruins, and the temple mount a forested hill.’
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Isaiah 39:4-6
Isaiah asked,“ What have they seen in your palace?” Hezekiah answered,“ They have seen everything in my palace. There isn’t anything in my treasuries that I didn’t show them.”Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah,“ Hear the word of the Lord of Hosts:‘ The time will certainly come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon; nothing will be left,’ says the Lord.
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Micah 1:5-7
All this will happen because of Jacob’s rebellion and the sins of the house of Israel. What is the rebellion of Jacob? Isn’t it Samaria? And what is the high place of Judah? Isn’t it Jerusalem?Therefore, I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the countryside, a planting area for a vineyard. I will roll her stones into the valley and expose her foundations.All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again for a prostitute.
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Leviticus 26:30
I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies on the lifeless bodies of your idols; I will reject you.
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Isaiah 2:2-3
In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s house will be established at the top of the mountains and will be raised above the hills. All nations will stream to it,and many peoples will come and say,“ Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us about His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For instruction will go out of Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
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Micah 3:12-4:2
Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become ruins, and the hill of the temple mount will be a thicket.In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s house will be established at the top of the mountains and will be raised above the hills. Peoples will stream to it,and many nations will come and say,“ Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us about His ways so we may walk in His paths.” For instruction will go out of Zion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
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Ezekiel 6:3
You are to say: Mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! This is what the Lord God says to the mountains and the hills, to the ravines and the valleys: I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will destroy your high places.
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Isaiah 27:9
Therefore Jacob’s iniquity will be purged in this way, and the result of the removal of his sin will be this: when he makes all the altar stones like crushed bits of chalk, no Asherah poles or incense altars will remain standing.
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Ezekiel 16:39
I will hand you over to them, and they will level your mounds and tear down your elevated places. They will strip off your clothes, take your beautiful jewelry, and leave you stark naked.
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Jeremiah 52:15-20
Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, deported some of the poorest of the people, as well as the rest of the people who were left in the city, the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the craftsmen.But some of the poorest people of the land Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, left to be vinedressers and farmers.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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2 Kings 25 13-2 Kings 25 16
Now the Chaldeans broke into pieces the bronze pillars of the Lord’s temple, the water carts, and the bronze reservoir, which were in the Lord’s temple, and carried the bronze to Babylon.They also took the pots, the shovels, the wick trimmers, the dishes, and all the bronze articles used in temple service.The commander of the guards took away the firepans and the sprinkling basins— whatever was gold or silver.As for the two pillars, the one reservoir, and the water carts that 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 12:12
Over all the barren heights in the wilderness the destroyers have come, for the Lord has a sword that devours from one end of the earth to the other. No one has peace.
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Lamentations 5:17-18
Because of this, our heart is sick; because of these, our eyes grow dim:because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate and has jackals prowling in it.
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Lamentations 1:10
The adversary has seized all her precious belongings. She has even seen the nations enter her sanctuary— those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.
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Ezekiel 7:20-22
He appointed His beautiful ornaments for majesty, but they made their abhorrent images from them, their detestable things. Therefore, I have made these into something filthy for them.I will hand these things over to foreigners as plunder and to the wicked of the earth as spoil, and they will profane them.I will turn My face from the wicked as they profane My treasured place. Violent men will enter it and profane it.