Ezekiel 23:39
Good News Translation
The very day that they killed my children as sacrifices to idols, they came to my Temple and profaned it!

New Revised Standard Version
For when they had slaughtered their children for their idols, on the same day they came into my sanctuary to profane it. This is what they did in my house.

New American Bible
On the very day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered my sanctuary to desecrate it. Thus they acted within my house!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when they sacrificed their children to their idols, and went into my sanctuary the same day to profane it: they did these things even in the midst of my house.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And when they sacrificed their children to their idols, and went into my sanctuary the same day to profane it: they did these things even in the midst of my house.

they came

Isaiah 3:9 The shew of their countenance hath answered them: and they have proclaimed abroad their sin as Sodom, and they have not hid it: woe to their souls, for evils are rendered to them.

Jeremiah 7:8-11 Behold you put your trust in lying words, which shall not profit you: . . .

Jeremiah 11:15 What is the meaning that my beloved hath wrought much wickedness in my house? shall the holy flesh take away from thee thy crimes, in which thou hast boasted?

Micah 3:11 You that build up Sion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.

John 18:28 Then they led Jesus from Caiphas to the governor's hall. And it was morning: and they went not into the hall, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the pasch.

thus

Ezekiel 23:38 Yea, and they have done this to me. They polluted my sanctuary on the same day, and profaned my sabbaths.

Ezekiel 44:7 In that you have brought in strangers uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, and to defile my house: and you offer my bread, the fat, and the blood: and you have broken my covenant by all your wicked doings.

2 Kings 21:4 And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said: In Jerusalem I will put my name.

2 Chronicles 33:4-7 He built also altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had said: In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever. . . .

Jeremiah 23:11 For the prophet and the priest are defiled: and in my house I have found their wickedness, saith the Lord.

Context
Judgment on Both Sisters
38Yea, and they have done this to me. They polluted my sanctuary on the same day, and profaned my sabbaths. 39And when they sacrificed their children to their idols, and went into my sanctuary the same day to profane it: they did these things even in the midst of my house.40They sent for men coming from afar, to whom they had sent a messenger: and behold they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, and didst paint thy eyes, and wast adorned with women's ornaments.…
Cross References
Jeremiah 7:9
To steal, to murder, to commit adultery, to swear falsely, to offer to Baalim, and to go after strange gods, which you know not.

Jeremiah 7:10
And you have come, and stood before me in this house, in which my name is called upon, and have said: We are delivered, because we have done all these abominations.

Ezekiel 8:16
And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord: and behold at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men having their backs towards the temple of the Lord, in their faces to the east: and they adored towards the rising of the sun.

Ezekiel 20:39
And as for you, O house of Israel: thus saith the Lord God: Walk ye every one after your idols, and serve them. But if in this also you hear me not, but defile my holy name any more with your gifts, and with your idols;

Ezekiel 22:8
Thou hast despised my sanctuaries, and profaned my sabbaths.

Ezekiel 23:38
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