Ezekiel 22:26

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

Priests

Malachi 2:1

Profaned

Leviticus 22:2

1 Samuel 2:15

Put no

Hid their

Ezekiel 22:8

Ezekiel 20:12

I am profaned

Ezekiel 36:20

Romans 2:24

General references

Bible References

Priests

and the sons of Eli are sons of worthlessness, they have not known Jehovah.

The priests have not said, 'Where is Jehovah?' And those handling the law have not known Me. And the shepherds transgressed against Me, And the prophets have prophesied by Baal, And after those who profit not have gone.

Because of the sins of her prophets, The iniquities of her priests, Who are shedding in her midst the blood of the righteous,

Her heads for a bribe do judge, And her priests for hire do teach, And her prophets for silver divine, And on Jehovah they lean, saying, 'Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil doth not come in upon us.'

Her heads in her midst are roaring lions, Her judges are evening wolves, They have not gnawn the bone in the morning.

A son honoureth a father, and a servant his master. And if I am a father, where is Mine honour? And if I am a master, where is My fear? Said Jehovah of Hosts to you, O priests, despising My name! And ye have said: 'In what have we despised Thy name?'

And now, to you is this charge, O priests,

Profaned

Speak unto Aaron, and unto his sons, and they are separated from the holy things of the sons of Israel, and they pollute not My holy name in what they are hallowing to Me; I am Jehovah.

Also before they make perfume with the fat -- then hath the priest's servant come in, and said to the man who is sacrificing, 'Give flesh to roast for the priest, and he doth not take of thee flesh boiled, but raw;'

Put no

'And My people they direct between holy and common, and between unclean and clean they cause them to discern.

And the sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, take each his censer, and put in them fire, and put on it perfume, and bring near before Jehovah strange fire, which He hath not commanded them;

to make separation between the unclean and the pure, and between the beast that is eaten, and the beast that is not eaten.'

And ye have made separation between the pure beasts and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the pure, and ye do not make yourselves abominable by beast or by fowl, or by anything which creepeth on the ground which I have separated to you for unclean;

Therefore, thus said Jehovah: If thou turnest back, then I bring thee back, Before Me thou dost stand, And if thou bringest out the precious from the vile, As My mouth thou art! They -- they turn back unto thee, And thou dost not turn back unto them.

Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: 'Ask, I pray thee, the priests of the law, saying:

Hid their

My holy things thou hast despised, And My sabbaths thou hast polluted.

And also My sabbaths I have given to them, To be for a sign between Me and them, To know that I am Jehovah their sanctifier.

I am profaned

And one goeth in unto the nations whither they have gone, And they pollute My holy name by saying to them, The people of Jehovah are these, And from His land they have gone forth.

for the name of God because of you is evil spoken of among the nations, according as it hath been written.

General references

so as to make a separation between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the pure;

and they do not pollute the holy things of the sons of Israel -- that which they lift up to Jehovah,

For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.

And the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, hear Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of Jehovah,

My holy things thou hast despised, And My sabbaths thou hast polluted.

'And My people they direct between holy and common, and between unclean and clean they cause them to discern.