Jeremiah 23:11

American Standard Version (1901)

for both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith Jehovah.

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  • Jer 6:13 : 13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
  • Zeph 3:4 : 4 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons; her priests have profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.
  • Ezek 8:16 : 16 And he brought me into the inner court of Jehovah's house; and behold, at the door of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of Jehovah, and their faces toward the east; and they were worshipping the sun toward the east.
  • Jer 32:34 : 34 But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
  • Jer 7:10-11 : 10 and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that ye may do all these abominations? 11 Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it, saith Jehovah.
  • Jer 7:30 : 30 For the children of Judah have done that which is evil in my sight, saith Jehovah: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.
  • Jer 8:10 : 10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall possess them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness; from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
  • Ezek 23:39 : 39 For when they had slain their children to 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.
  • Jer 11:15 : 15 What hath my beloved to do in my house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness [with] many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.
  • Jer 23:15 : 15 Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts concerning the prophets: Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem is ungodliness gone forth into all the land.
  • 2 Chr 33:5 : 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Jehovah.
  • 2 Chr 33:7 : 7 And he set the graven image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
  • 2 Chr 36:14 : 14 Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Jehovah which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
  • Jer 5:31 : 31 the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
  • Ezek 7:20 : 20 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 unto them as an unclean thing.
  • Ezek 8:5-6 : 5 Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold, northward of the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry. 6 And he said unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But thou shalt again see yet other great abominations.
  • Ezek 8:11 : 11 And there stood before them seventy men of the elders of the house of Israel; and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, every man with his censer in his hand; and the odor of the cloud of incense went up.
  • Ezek 22:25-26 : 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in the midst thereof. 26 Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
  • Matt 21:12-13 : 12 And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of them that sold the doves; [ 13 and he saith unto them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer: but ye make it a den of robbers.

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    4Her prophets are light and treacherous persons; her priests have profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

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    26Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

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    12Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.

    13And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria; they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.

    14In the prophets of Jerusalem also I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies; and they strengthen the hands of evil-doers, so that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

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    10and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that ye may do all these abominations?

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    38Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

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    30Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith Jehovah, that steal my words every one from his neighbor.

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    8Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.

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    34But they set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to defile it.

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