Psalms 79:1
Psalms · Old Testament · Chapter 79
“O GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.”Psalms 79:1
What Does Psalms 79:1 Mean?
Psalms 79:1 is found in the book of Psalms, chapter 79, verse 1 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Psalms 79:1 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
2 Chronicles 36:19“And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.”Lamentations 1:10“The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.”1 Corinthians 3:17“If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.”Psalms 74:1“O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?”Jeremiah 52:13“And burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:”Micah 3:12“Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.”2 Kings 25:9“And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire.”Psalms 74:3“Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.”Psalms 74:7“They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.”Jeremiah 26:18“Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.”Lamentations 5:2“Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.”Ezekiel 5:14“Moreover I will make thee waste, and a reproach among the nations that are round about thee, in the sight of all that pass by.”Daniel 9:2“In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.”2 Kings 21:12“Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.”2 Kings 24:13“And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.”2 Kings 25:4“And the city was broken up, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round about:) and the king went the way toward the plain.”1 Chronicles 6:39“And his brother Asaph, who stood on his right hand, even Asaph the son of Berachiah, the son of Shimea,”2 Chronicles 36:3“And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.”2 Chronicles 36:6“Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.”2 Chronicles 36:17“Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.”
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