John 2:14

I will bring these to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”

Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, I myself have seen it,” says Yahweh.

saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house is a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of robbers’!”

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

They came to Jerusalem, and Jesus entered into the temple, and began to throw out those who sold and those who bought in the temple, and overthrew the money changers’ tables, and the seats of those who sold the doves.

To those who sold the doves, he said, “Take these things out of here! Don’t make my Father’s house a marketplace!”

Send the lambs for the ruler of the land from Selah to the wilderness, to the mountain of the daughter of Zion.

You shall trade the money for whatever your soul desires: for cattle, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatever your soul asks of you. You shall eat there before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice, you and your household.

therefore you shall with all diligence buy with this money bulls, rams, lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, and shall offer them on the altar of the house of your God which is in Jerusalem.

Lift up your feet to the perpetual ruins, all the evil that the enemy has done in the sanctuary.

Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul. He takes an oath, but dares not testify.

Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.

He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction of Canaan’s strongholds.

He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”

He taught, saying to them, “Isn’t it written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations?’ But you have made it a den of robbers!”

You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?

The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand far away for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning,

All the flocks of Kedar will be gathered together to you. The rams of Nebaioth will serve you. They will be accepted as offerings on my altar; and I will beautify my glorious house.

A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.