2Chr 36:14 Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:14
14: All the leaders of the priests and the people became more and more unfaithful. They followed the pagan practices of the surrounding nations, desecrating the Temple of the LORD in Jerusalem.
Daniel 9:8
- O LORD, we and our kings, princes, and ancestors are covered with shame because we have sinned against you.
Zephaniah 3:3
- Its leaders are like roaring lions hunting for their victims--out for everything they can get. Its judges are like ravenous wolves at evening time, who by dawn have left no trace of their prey.
- Its prophets are arrogant liars seeking their own gain. Its priests defile the Temple by disobeying God's laws.
Jeremiah 38:4
- So these officials went to the king and said, "Sir, this man must die! That kind of talk will undermine the morale of the few fighting men we have left, as well as that of all the people, too. This man is a traitor!"
Jeremiah 37:13
- But as he was walking through the Benjamin Gate, a sentry arrested him and said, "You are defecting to the Babylonians!" The sentry making the arrest was Irijah son of Shelemiah and grandson of Hananiah.
- "That's not true!" Jeremiah protested. "I had no intention of doing any such thing." But Irijah wouldn't listen, and he took Jeremiah before the officials.
- They were furious with Jeremiah and had him flogged and imprisoned in the house of Jonathan the secretary. Jonathan's house had been converted into a prison.
Ezekiel 8:5
- Then the LORD said to me, "Son of man, look toward the north." So I looked, and there to the north, beside the entrance to the gate of the altar, stood the idol that had made the LORD so angry.
- "Son of man," he said, "do you see what they are doing? Do you see the great sins the people of Israel are doing to drive me from my Temple? But come, and you will see even greater sins than these!"
- Then he brought me to the door of the Temple courtyard, where I could see an opening in the wall.
- He said to me, "Now, son of man, dig into the wall." So I dug into the wall and uncovered a door to a hidden room.
- "Go in," he said, "and see the unspeakable wickedness going on in there!"
2 Kings 16:10
- King Ahaz then went to Damascus to meet with King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria. While he was there, he noticed an unusual altar. So he sent a model of the altar to Uriah the priest, along with its design in full detail.
- Uriah built an altar just like it by following the king's instructions, and it was ready for the king when he returned from Damascus.
- When the king returned, he inspected the altar and made offerings on it.
- The king presented a burnt offering and a grain offering, poured a drink offering over it, and sprinkled the blood of peace offerings on it.
- Then King Ahaz removed the old bronze altar from the front of the LORD's Temple, which had stood between the entrance and the new altar, and placed it on the north side of the new altar.
Daniel 9:6
- We have refused to listen to your servants the prophets, who spoke your messages to our kings and princes and ancestors and to all the people of the land.
Jeremiah 5:5
- I will go and speak to their leaders. Surely they will know the LORD's ways and what God requires of them." But the leaders, too, had utterly rejected their God.
2 Chronicles 33:4
- He even built pagan altars in the Temple of the LORD, the place where the LORD had said his name should be honored forever.
- He put these altars for the stars of heaven in both courtyards of the LORD's Temple.
- Manasseh even sacrificed his own sons in the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and he consulted with mediums and psychics. He did much that was evil in the LORD's sight, arousing his anger.
- Manasseh even took a carved idol he had made and set it up in God's Temple, the very place where God had told David and his son Solomon: "My name will be honored here forever in this Temple and in Jerusalem--the city I have chosen from among all the other tribes of Israel.
2 Chronicles 28:3
- He offered sacrifices in the valley of the son of Hinnom, even sacrificing his own sons in the fire. He imitated the detestable practices of the pagan nations whom the LORD had driven from the land ahead of the Israelites.
Ezra 9:7
- Our whole history has been one of great sin. That is why we and our kings and our priests have been at the mercy of the pagan kings of the land. We have been killed, captured, robbed, and disgraced, just as we are today.
Micah 3:1
- Listen, you leaders of Israel! You are supposed to know right from wrong,
- but you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.
- You eat my people's flesh, cut away their skin, and break their bones. You chop them up like meat for the cooking pot.
- Then you beg the LORD for help in times of trouble! Do you really expect him to listen? After all the evil you have done, he won't even look at you!
2 Chronicles 33:9
- But Manasseh led the people of Judah and Jerusalem to do even more evil than the pagan nations whom the LORD had destroyed when the Israelites entered the land.
Ezekiel 22:6
- "Every leader in Israel who lives within your walls is bent on murder.
Ezekiel 22:26
- Your priests have violated my laws and defiled my holy things. To them there is no difference between what is holy and what is not. And they do not teach my people the difference between what is ceremonially clean and unclean. They disregard my Sabbath days so that my holy name is greatly dishonored among them.
- Your leaders are like wolves, who tear apart their victims. They actually destroy people's lives for profit!
- And your prophets announce false visions and speak false messages. They say, `My message is from the Sovereign LORD,' when the LORD hasn't spoken a single word to them. They repair cracked walls with whitewash!
Micah 3:9
- Listen to me, you leaders of Israel! You hate justice and twist all that is right.
- You are building Jerusalem on a foundation of murder and corruption.
- You rulers govern for the bribes you can get; you priests teach God's laws only for a price; you prophets won't prophesy unless you are paid. Yet all of you claim you are depending on the LORD. "No harm can come to us," you say, "for the LORD is here among us."
Micah 7:2
- The godly people have all disappeared; not one fair-minded person is left on the earth. They are all murderers, even setting traps for their own brothers.