Sacrilege

How Nave’s arranged it

• (Profaning holy things)
• ForbiddenLeviticus 19:81 Corinthians 3:17Titus 1:111 Peter 5:2
• INSTANCES OF
• Esau sells his birthrightGenesis 25:33
• Nadab and Abihu offer "strange" (unauthorized) fireLeviticus 10:1–7Numbers 3:4
• Of Uzzah2 Samuel 6:62 Samuel 6:7
• Of Uzziah2 Chronicles 26:16–21
• Of Korah and his groupNumbers 16:40
• Of the people of Beth-shemesh1 Samuel 6:19
• Of Ahaz2 Chronicles 28:24
• Of the money-exchangers in the templeMatthew 21:12Matthew 21:13Luke 19:45John 2:14–16
• Of those who profaned the Lord' s Supper1 Corinthians 11:29

The passages, in Bible order (18)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Genesis 25:33

   “Swear to me first,” Jacob said. So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright.

   ›Commentary on Genesis 25:331 voice

   “Esau, because of his meat, cast away the birthright together with the blessings, and he became a slave unto sin, and one who was subject under the hand of his brother. And do not imagine that the lust for dainty meats only is accounted gluttony, …

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2. Leviticus 10:1–7

   Now Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense, and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to His command.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 10:1–71 voice

   “The sons of Aaron also, who set upon the altar a strange fire not commanded by the Lord, were at once blotted out in the sight of the avenging Lord. These examples, you will see, are being followed wherever the tradition which comes from God is despised by lovers of strange doctrine and replaced by teaching of merely human authority.

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3. Leviticus 19:8

   Whoever eats it will bear his iniquity, for he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person must be cut off from his people.

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 19:81 voice

   “Therefore everyone that eateth it shall bear his iniquity,....

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4. Numbers 3:4

   Nadab and Abihu, however, died in the presence of the LORD when they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai. And since they had no sons, only Eleazar and Ithamar served as priests during the lifetime of their father Aaron.

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5. Numbers 16:40

   just as the LORD commanded him through Moses. This was to be a reminder to the Israelites that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to offer incense before the LORD, lest he become like Korah and his followers.

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   “To be a memorial unto the children of Israel,....

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6. 1 Samuel 6:19

   But God struck down some of the people of Beth-shemesh because they looked inside the ark of the LORD. He struck down seventy men, and the people mourned because the LORD had struck them with a great slaughter.

   ›Commentary on 1 Samuel 6:191 voice

   “30. Who are the struck-down Beth-shemites, if not heretics deceived by false contemplation? For the Beth-shemites existed not in truth, but in presumption. Therefore, while they presumed to look upon the ark on the stone, they were struck down: because when they, being unworthy, scrutinized the sacraments of our Lord and Redeemer, they were cast down into the snares of eternal damnation through the deceit of their own error. But what does it mean that seventy men of the people, and fifty thousand of the common folk, were struck down?

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7. 2 Samuel 6:6

   When they came to the threshing floor of Nacon, Uzzah reached out and took hold of the ark of God, because the oxen had stumbled.

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 6:61 voice

   “We read in the law that even those who seem to have acted lightly against the sacred commandments have, nevertheless, been punished most severely. This is that we might understand that nothing which pertains to God must be considered lightly, because even what seems to …

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8. 2 Samuel 6:7

   And the anger of the LORD burned against Uzzah, and God struck him down on the spot for his irreverence, and he died there beside the ark of God.

   ›Commentary on 2 Samuel 6:72 voices

   “We read in the law that even those who seem to have acted lightly against the sacred commandments have, nevertheless, been punished most severely. This is that we might understand that nothing which pertains to God must be considered lightly, because even what seems to …

   “And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah,....

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9. 2 Chronicles 26:16–21

   But when Uzziah grew powerful, his arrogance led to his own destruction. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.

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   “Of Uzziah, the ancestor of this king of whom we have been speaking, himself also praised in all things by the witness of the Scripture, after great commendation for his virtue, after countless triumphs that he achieved by the merit of his devotion and faith, learn how he was cast down by the pride of vainglory. "And," we are told, "the name of Uzziah went forth, for the Lord helped him and had strengthened him.

   “When King Uzziah carried a censer and violently took on himself to sacrifice, against the law of God, and refused to submit or give place, despite the opposition of Azariah the priest, he was confounded by God's indignation and defiled with the markings of leprosy on his forehead, branded by the Lord's anger on that part of the body on which those who win the Lord's favor are sealed.

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10. 2 Chronicles 28:24

    Then Ahaz gathered up the articles of the house of God, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the house of the LORD, and set up altars of his own on every street corner in Jerusalem.

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    “And gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God,.... And converted them to his own use, sold them, or melted the gold and silver, of which they were, and made money of them, his treasures being exhausted: and shut up the doors of the house of the Lord: that the people might not come and worship there, but on the high places he made: and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem; that the priests might sacrifice there, and not in the temple.

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11. Matthew 21:12

    Then Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.

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    “And he cast out all them that sold and bought. It should be known that in obedience to the Law, in the Temple of the Lord venerated throughout the whole world, and resorted to by Jews out of every quarter, innumerable victims were sacrificed, especially on festival days, bulls, rams, goats; the poor offering young pigeons and turtle-doves, that they might not omit all sacrifice. But it would happen that those who came from a distance would have no victim.

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12. Matthew 21:13

    And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”

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    “And he cast out all them that sold and bought. It should be known that in obedience to the Law, in the Temple of the Lord venerated throughout the whole world, and resorted to by Jews out of every quarter, innumerable victims were sacrificed, especially on festival days, bulls, rams, goats; the poor offering young pigeons and turtle-doves, that they might not omit all sacrifice. But it would happen that those who came from a distance would have no victim.

    “She has none to whom to make such a promise; and if she have had, she does not make it; since even the earthly temple of God can sooner have been called by the Lord a "den of robbers," than of adulterers and fornicators.

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13. Luke 19:45

    Then Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were selling there.

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    “God does not want his temple to be a trader's lodge but the home of sanctity. He does not preserve the practice of the priestly ministry by the dishonest duty of religion but by voluntary obedience. Consider what the Lord's actions impose on you as an example of living.… He taught in general that worldly transactions must be absent from the temple, but he drove out the moneychangers in particular. Who are the moneychangers, if not those who seek profit from the Lord's money and cannot distinguish between good and evil? Holy Scripture is the Lord's money.

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14. John 2:14–16

    In the temple courts He found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers seated at their tables.

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15. 1 Corinthians 3:17

    If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.

    ›Commentary on 1 Corinthians 3:171 voice

    And not only does he (the apostle) acknowledge our bodies to be a temple, but even the temple of Christ, saying thus to the Corinthians, "Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot?"

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16. 1 Corinthians 11:29

    For anyone who eats and drinks without recognizing the body eats and drinks judgment on himself.

    ›Commentary on 1 Corinthians 11:291 voice

    “Then when he says, anyone who eats, he assigns the reason for the above remedy, saying: A previous examination is required, because anyone who eats and drinks unworthily eats and drinks judgment, i.e., condemnation, upon himself: "Those who have done evil will rise to the …

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