1 Esdras 1:49LXX
Orthodox Bible · LXX · Verse 49 of 58
"The governors also of the people and of the priests did many things against the laws, and passed all the pollutions of all nations, and defiled the temple of the Lord, which was sanctified in Jerusalem."
In context
47and he did evil also in the sight of the Lord, and cared not for the words that were spoken unto him by the prophet Jeremy from the mouth of the Lord.
48And after that king Nabuchodonosor had made him to swear by the name of the Lord, he forswore himself, and rebelled; and hardening his neck, and his heart, he transgressed the laws of the Lord God of Israel.
49The governors also of the people and of the priests did many things against the laws, and passed all the pollutions of all nations, and defiled the temple of the Lord, which was sanctified in Jerusalem.
50Nevertheless the God of their fathers sent by his messenger to call them back, because he spared them and his tabernacle also.
51But they had his messengers in derision; and, in the day that the Lord spake unto them, they made a sport of his prophets: