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

Now the sons of Eli were

worthless men; they did not know the Lord

“The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’
And those who handle the law did not know Me;
The rulers also transgressed against Me,
And the prophets prophesied by Baal
And walked after things that did not profit.

Because of the sins of her prophets
And the iniquities of her priests,
Who have shed in her midst
The blood of the righteous;

Her leaders pronounce judgment for a bribe,
Her priests instruct for a price
And her prophets divine for money.
Yet they lean on the Lord saying,
“Is not the Lord in our midst?
Calamity will not come upon us.”

Her princes within her are roaring lions,
Her judges are wolves at evening;
They leave nothing for the morning.

“‘A son honors his father, and a servant his master. Then if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is My respect?’ says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests who despise My name. But you say, ‘How have we despised Your name?’

“And now this commandment is for you, O priests.

Profaned

“Tell Aaron and his sons to be careful with the holy gifts of the sons of Israel, which they dedicate to Me, so as not to profane My holy name; I am the Lord.

Also, before they burned the fat, the priest’s servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, “Give the priest meat for roasting, as he will not take boiled meat from you, only raw.”

Put no

Moreover, they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their respective firepans, and after putting fire in them, placed incense on it and offered strange fire before the Lord, which He had not commanded them.

to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the edible creature and the creature which is not to be eaten.

You are therefore to make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make yourselves detestable by animal or by bird or by anything that creeps on the ground, which I have separated for you as unclean.

Therefore, thus says the Lord,
“If you return, then I will restore you—

Before Me you will stand;

And if you extract the precious from the worthless,
You will become My spokesman.
They for their part may turn to you,
But as for you, you must not turn to them.

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Ask now the priests for a ruling:

Hid their

You have despised My holy things and profaned My sabbaths.

Also I gave them My sabbaths to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

I am profaned

When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of the Lord; yet they have come out of His land.’

For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles

because of you,” just as it is written.

General references

and so as to make a distinction between the holy and the profane, and between the unclean and the clean,

They shall not profane the holy gifts of the sons of Israel which they offer to the Lord,

For they eat the bread of wickedness
And drink the wine of violence.

The priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house of the Lord.

You have despised My holy things and profaned My sabbaths.

Moreover, they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.