Psalms 74:7

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

They have cast{H8765)} fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled{H8765)} by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שִׁלְח֣וּ בָ֭אֵשׁ מִקְדָּשֶׁ֑ךָ לָ֝אָ֗רֶץ חִלְּל֥וּ מִֽשְׁכַּן־שְׁמֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

Shilchu va'esh miqdashecha, to ha'arets chillelu mishkan-shemecha.

Grammar Details

*Shilchu*: piel perfect 3rd person common plural - 'they sent/cast'
*va'esh*: preposition + definite article + feminine singular noun - 'into the fire'
*miqdashecha*: masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'your sanctuary'
*la'arets*: preposition + definite article + feminine singular noun - 'to the ground'
*chillelu*: piel perfect 3rd person common plural - 'they profaned/defiled'
*mishkan-shemecha*: construct phrase with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'dwelling place of your name'

Word Meanings

*Shilchu*: they cast/sent/set
*miqdashecha*: your sanctuary/holy place
*chillelu*: they profaned/defiled/polluted
*mishkan-shemecha*: dwelling place of your name/tabernacle of your name

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

2 Kgs 25:9 : 9 And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.
Ps 89:39 : 39 Thou hast made void{H8765)} the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned{H8765)} his crown by casting it to the ground.
Isa 64:11 : 11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
Lam 2:2 : 2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
Ezek 24:21 : 21 Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword.
Matt 22:7 : 7 But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.
Exod 20:24 : 24 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee.
Deut 12:5 : 5 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
1 Kgs 8:20 : 20 And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Ps 74:8
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8They said{H8804)} in their hearts, Let us destroy{H8799)} them together: they have burned up{H8804)} all the synagogues of God in the land.
Ps 74:6
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6But now they break down{H8799)} the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
Ps 79:1
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1A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come{H8804)} into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled{H8765)}; they have laid{H8804)} Jerusalem on heaps.
Ps 74:3-4
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3Lift up{H8685)} thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy{H8802)} hath done wickedly{H8689)} in the sanctuary.
4Thine enemies{H8802)} roar{H8804)} in the midst of thy congregations; they set up{H8804)} their ensigns for signs.
Lam 2:6-7
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6And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
7The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
Ps 79:7
77%
7For they have devoured{H8804)} Jacob, and laid waste{H8689)} his dwelling place.
Isa 64:11
77%
11Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
Ezek 23:38-39
2 verses
77%
38Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
39For 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 mine house.
Isa 63:18
75%
18The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
2 Chr 36:19
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19And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
Jer 32:34
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34But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it.
Ezek 22:8
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8Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
2 Chr 29:7
74%
7Also they have shut up the doors of the porch, and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place unto the God of Israel.
Ps 94:5
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5They break in pieces{H8762)} thy people, O LORD, and afflict{H8762)} thine heritage.
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74%
20As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
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22My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
Ezek 28:18
74%
18Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.
Ps 73:18-19
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73%
18Surely thou didst set{H8799)} them in slippery places: thou castedst them down{H8689)} into destruction.
19How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly{H8804)} consumed{H8804)} with terrors.
Lam 1:10
73%
10The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
Ezek 43:8
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8In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.
2 Chr 7:20
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20Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.
Isa 37:19
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19And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
Ps 5:10
72%
10Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.
Deut 7:5
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5But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
Ps 69:24
72%
24Pour out{H8798)} thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold{H8686)} of them.
Jer 7:30
72%
30For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the LORD: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
2 Kgs 17:11
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11And there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the LORD carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the LORD to anger:
Ezek 44:7-8
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7In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
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Ezek 7:24
72%
24Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.
Ps 83:4
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4They have said{H8804)}, Come{H8798)}, and let us cut them off{H8686)} from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance{H8735)}.
2 Chr 20:8
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8And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,
2 Kgs 19:18
71%
18And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
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16It is burned{H8803)} with fire, it is cut down{H8803)}: they perish{H8799)} at the rebuke of thy countenance.
Deut 12:3
71%
3And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
Ezek 26:12
71%
12And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
2 Chr 24:7
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7For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim.
Ps 139:20
71%
20For they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
Ps 73:9
71%
9They set{H8804)} their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh{H8799)} through the earth.
Ezek 5:4
71%
4Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.
Lam 3:66
71%
66Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
Ps 83:14
70%
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Ezek 9:7
70%
7And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.
Lam 4:11
70%
11The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
Ps 89:39
70%
39Thou hast made void{H8765)} the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned{H8765)} his crown by casting it to the ground.