Ezekiel 7:20-22
7:20 They rendered the beauty of his ornaments into pride,
and with it they made their abominable images – their detestable idols. Therefore I will render it filthy to them.
7:21 I will give it to foreigners as loot, to the world’s wicked ones as plunder, and they will desecrate it.
7:22 I will turn my face away from them and they will desecrate my treasured place.
Vandals will enter it and desecrate it.
Ezekiel 9:7
9:7 He said to them, “Defile the temple and fill the courtyards with corpses. Go!” So they went out and struck people down throughout the city.
Psalms 74:7
74:7 They set your sanctuary on fire;
they desecrate your dwelling place by knocking it to the ground.
Psalms 79:1
Psalm 79
A psalm of Asaph.
79:1 O God, foreigners have invaded your chosen land;
they have polluted your holy temple
and turned Jerusalem into a heap of ruins.
Isaiah 65:11
65:11 But as for you who abandon the Lord
and forget about worshiping at my holy mountain,
who prepare a feast for the god called ‘Fortune,’
and fill up wine jugs for the god called ‘Destiny’ –
Jeremiah 7:14
7:14 So I will destroy this temple which I have claimed as my own,
this temple that you are trusting to protect you. I will destroy this place that I gave to you and your ancestors,
just like I destroyed Shiloh.
Lamentations 1:10
י (Yod)
1:10 An enemy grabbed
all her valuables.
Indeed she watched in horror as Gentiles
invaded her holy temple –
those whom you had commanded:
“They must not enter your assembly place.”
Lamentations 2:6-7
ו (Vav)
2:6 He destroyed his temple as if it were a vineyard;
he destroyed his appointed meeting place.
The Lord has made those in Zion forget
both the festivals and the Sabbaths.
In his fierce anger he has spurned
both king and priest.
ז (Zayin)
2:7 The Lord rejected his altar
and abhorred his temple.
He handed over to the enemy
her palace walls;
the enemy shouted in the Lord’s temple
as if it were a feast day.
Daniel 11:31
11:31 His forces
will rise up and profane the fortified sanctuary,
stopping the daily sacrifice. In its place they will set up
the abomination that causes desolation.
Acts 6:13-14
6:13 They brought forward false witnesses who said, “This man does not stop saying things against this holy place
and the law.
6:14 For we have heard him saying that Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place and change the customs
that Moses handed down to us.”