Quotes about Worship

For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.

So I asked them: ‘What is this high place to which you go?’ (And to this day it is called Bamah.)

have brought these things upon you, because you have prostituted yourself with the nations and defiled yourself with their idols.

For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food for their idols.

On the very day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary to profane it. Yes, they did this inside My house.

Then the nations will know that I the LORD sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary is among them forever.’”

The double-pronged hooks, each a handbreadth long, were fastened all around the inside of the room, and the flesh of the offering was to be placed on the tables.

Then the man brought me into the outer sanctuary and measured the side pillars to be six cubits wide on each side.

There was an altar of wood three cubits high and two cubits square. Its corners, base, and sides were of wood. And the man told me, “This is the table that is before the LORD.”

Once the priests have entered the holy area, they must not go out into the outer court until they have left behind the garments in which they minister, for these are holy. They are to put on other clothes before they approach the places that are for the people.”

and the glory of the LORD entered the temple through the gate facing east.

Now let them remove far from Me their prostitution and the funeral offerings for their kings, and I will dwell among them forever.