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Micah 3:12
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.
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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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2 Chronicles 36 19
Then the Chaldeans burned God’s temple. They tore down Jerusalem’s wall, burned down all its palaces, and destroyed all its valuable articles.
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Psalms 74:1-4
Why have You rejected us forever, God? Why does Your anger burn against the sheep of Your pasture?Remember Your congregation, which You purchased long ago and redeemed as the tribe for Your own possession. Remember Mount Zion where You dwell.Make Your way to the everlasting ruins, to all that the enemy has destroyed in the sanctuary.Your adversaries roared in the meeting place where You met with us. They set up their emblems as signs.
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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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2 Chronicles 36 6-2 Chronicles 36 7
Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon attacked him and bound him in bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.Also Nebuchadnezzar took some of the utensils of the Lord’s temple to Babylon and put them in his temple in Babylon.
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2 Kings 25 4-2 Kings 25 10
Then the city was broken into, and all the warriors fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden, even though the Chaldeans surrounded the city. As the king made his way along the route to the Arabah,the Chaldean army pursued him and overtook him in the plains of Jericho. Zedekiah’s entire army was scattered from him.The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.They slaughtered Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes. Finally, the king of Babylon blinded Zedekiah, bound him in bronze chains, and took him to Babylon.On the seventh day of the fifth month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the commander of the guards, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.He burned the Lord’s temple, the king’s palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem; he burned down all the great houses.The whole Chaldean army with the commander of the guards tore down the walls surrounding Jerusalem.
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Psalms 74:7-8
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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Exodus 15:17
You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your possession; Lord, You have prepared the place for Your dwelling; Lord, Your hands have established the sanctuary.
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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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2 Chronicles 36 3-2 Chronicles 36 4
The king of Egypt deposed him in Jerusalem and fined the land 7,500 pounds of silver and 75 pounds of gold.Then Neco king of Egypt made Jehoahaz’s brother Eliakim king over Judah and Jerusalem and changed Eliakim’s name to Jehoiakim. But Neco took his brother Jehoahaz and brought him to Egypt.
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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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2 Kings 21 12-2 Kings 21 16
this is what the Lord God of Israel says:‘ I am about to bring such disaster on Jerusalem and Judah that everyone who hears about it will shudder.I will stretch over Jerusalem the measuring line used on Samaria and the mason’s level used on the house of Ahab, and I will wipe Jerusalem clean as one wipes a bowl— wiping it and turning it upside down.I will abandon the remnant of My inheritance and hand them over to their enemies. They will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,because they have done what is evil in My sight and have provoked Me from the day their ancestors came out of Egypt until today.’”Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another. This was in addition to his sin that he caused Judah to commit. Consequently, they did what was evil in the Lord’s sight.
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2 Chronicles 36 17
So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their choice young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary. He had no pity on young men or young women, elderly or aged; He handed them all over to him.
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Psalms 78:71
He brought him from tending ewes to be shepherd over His people Jacob— over Israel, His inheritance.
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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.
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Isaiah 47:6
I was angry with My people; I profaned My possession, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; you made your yoke very heavy on the elderly.
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Luke 21:24
They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
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Jeremiah 39:8
The Chaldeans next burned down the king’s palace and the people’s houses and tore down the walls of Jerusalem.
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Ezekiel 7:20-21
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.
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Revelation 11:2
But exclude the courtyard outside the sanctuary. Don’t measure it, because it is given to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for 42 months.
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Psalms 80:12-13
Why have You broken down its walls so that all who pass by pick its fruit?The boar from the forest tears it and creatures of the field feed on it.