Ezekiel 22:26

Highlighting The Sins And The Judgments Of Israel

²⁵ A conspiracy of its prophets is in its midst, as a roaring lion tearing prey; The soul they have devoured, Wealth and glory they have taken, Its widows have multiplied in its midst. ²⁶ Its priests have wronged My law, And they pollute My holy things, Between holy and common they have not made separation, And between the unclean and the clean they have not made known, And from my sabbaths they have hidden their eyes, And I am pierced in their midst. ²⁷ Its princes in its midst are as wolves, Tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, For the sake of gaining dishonest gain.

Clean and the Unclean

Holy Name

Holy Place

My People

Sabbath Day

Unclean and the Clean

No

Leviticus 10:10

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

1 Samuel 2:12-17

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

Jeremiah 2:8

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.

Ezekiel 22:8

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

Ezekiel 44:23

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

Malachi 2:8

And ye, ye have turned from the way, Ye have caused many to stumble in the law, Ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, Said Jehovah of Hosts.

1 Samuel 2:22

And Eli is very old, and hath heard all that his sons do to all Israel, and how that they lie with the women who are assembling at the opening of the tent of meeting,

Ezekiel 36:20

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.

Leviticus 10:1-3

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;

Leviticus 11:47

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

Leviticus 20:25

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;

Leviticus 22:2-33

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.

1 Samuel 2:29

Why do ye kick at My sacrifice, and at Mine offering which I commanded in My habitation, and dost honour thy sons above Me, to make yourselves fat from the first part of every offering of Israel, of My people?

Jeremiah 2:26-27

As the shame of a thief when he is found, So put to shame have been the house of Israel, They, their kings, their heads, And their priests, and their prophets,

Jeremiah 15:19

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.

Lamentations 4:13

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

Ezekiel 20:12-13

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.

Micah 3:11-12

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.'

Zephaniah 3:3-4

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

Haggai 2:11-14

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

Malachi 1:6-8

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?'

Malachi 2:1-3

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

Romans 2:24

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