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Ezekiel 7:20

His beautiful ornaments they transformed into pride and used them to fashion their vile images and detestable idols. Therefore I will make these into something unclean for them.

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ASV

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.

KJV

As 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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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וּצְבִ֤יu.tze.Viand [the] beauty ofH6643 →
עֶדְיוֹ֙ed.Yoornament[s] itsH5716 →
לְגָא֣וֹןle.ga.'oninto prideH1347 →
שָׂמָ֔הוּsa.Ma.huhe has made itH7760 →
וְצַלְמֵ֧יve.tzal.Meiand [the] images ofH6754 →
תוֹעֲבֹתָ֛םto.'a.vo.Tamabominations theirH8441 →
שִׁקּוּצֵיהֶ֖םshi.ku.tzei.Hemdetestable things theirH8251 →
עָ֣שׂוּ'A.suthey have madeH6213 →
ב֑וֹvowith it
עַל־'al-there-H5921 →
כֵּ֛ןken-foreH3651 →
נְתַתִּ֥יוne.ta.TivI will make itH5414 →
לָהֶ֖םla.Hemfor them
לְנִדָּֽה׃le.ni.Dahinto an impure thingH5079 →

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Ezekiel 24:21Tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul. And the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.’Jeremiah 7:30For the people of Judah have done evil in My sight, declares the LORD. They have set up their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it.Ezekiel 23:38They have also done this to Me: On that very same day, they defiled My sanctuary and profaned My Sabbaths.Ezekiel 8:7–10Then He brought me to the entrance to the court, and I looked and saw a hole in the wall.Ezekiel 9:7Then He told them, “Defile the temple and fill the courts with the slain. Go forth!” So they went out and began killing throughout the city.Isaiah 64:11Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.Ezekiel 8:15–16“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Yet you will see even greater abominations than these.”Ezekiel 11:18When they return to it, they will remove all its detestable things and all its abominations.Psalms 87:2–3The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.Jeremiah 7:14therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.Psalms 50:2From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.Ezekiel 5:11Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and abominations, I Myself will withdraw My favor; I will not look upon you with pity, nor will I spare you.2 Chronicles 2:9to prepare for me timber in abundance, because the temple I am building will be great and wonderful.Ezra 3:12But many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads who had seen the first temple wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple. Still, many others shouted joyfully.2 Chronicles 33:4–7Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.”2 Kings 21:7Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.Lamentations 2:7The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.2 Chronicles 36:14Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.

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The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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