Luke 19:46
saying to them, `It hath been written, My house is a house of prayer -- but ye made it a den of robbers.'
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Referenced Verses
- Isa 56:7 : 7 I have brought them unto My holy mountain, And caused them to rejoice in My house of prayer, Their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices `Are' for a pleasing thing on Mine altar, For My house, `A house of prayer,' Is called for all the peoples.
- Jer 7:11 : 11 A den of burglars hath this house, On which My name is called, been in your eyes? Even I, lo, I have seen, an affirmation of Jehovah.
- Ezek 43:12 : 12 This `is' a law of the house: on the top of the mountain, all its border all round about `is' most holy; lo, this `is' a law of the house.
- Hos 12:7 : 7 Canaan! in his hand `are' balances of deceit! To oppress he hath loved.
- Matt 23:13 : 13 `Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer to enter.
- Ps 93:5 : 5 Thy testimonies have been very stedfast, To Thy house comely `is' holiness, O Jehovah, for length of days!
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12 And Jesus entered into the temple of God, and did cast forth all those selling and buying in the temple, and the tables of the money-changers he overturned, and the seats of those selling the doves,
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14 And there came to him blind and lame men in the temple, and he healed them,
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17 and he was teaching, saying to them, `Hath it not been written -- My house a house of prayer shall be called for all the nations, and ye did make it a den of robbers?'
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