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?' Those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds transgressed against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and went after things that do not profit.

This was for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed in the midst of her the blood of the righteous.

Its heads give judgment for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money; yet they lean on the LORD and say, "Is not the LORD in the midst of us? No disaster shall come upon us."

Her officials within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves that leave nothing till the morning.

"A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is my fear? says the LORD of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. But you say, 'How have we despised your name?'

"And now, O priests, this command is for you.

Profaned

"Speak to Aaron and his sons so that they abstain from the holy things of the people of Israel, which they dedicate to me, so that they do not profane my holy name: I am the LORD.

Moreover, before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, "Give meat for the priest to roast, for he will not accept boiled meat from you but only raw."

Put no

They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.

Now Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, each took his censer and put fire in it and laid incense on it and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, which he had not commanded them.

to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean and between the living creature that may be eaten and the living creature that may not be eaten.

You shall therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean.

Therefore thus says the LORD: "If you return, I will restore you, and you shall stand before me. If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless, you shall be as my mouth. They shall turn to you, but you shall not turn to them.

"Thus says the LORD of hosts: Ask the priests about the law:

Hid their

You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths.

Moreover, I gave them my Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

I am profaned

But when they came to the nations, wherever they came, they profaned my holy name, in that people said of them, 'These are the people of the LORD, and yet they had to go out of his land.'

For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."

General references

You are to distinguish between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean,

They shall not profane the holy things of the people of Israel, which they contribute 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.

They shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.