Ezekiel 22:26

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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 scoundrels}; they did not know Yahweh.

The priests did not say, 'Where [is] Yahweh?' and those who handle the law did not know me, and the shepherds have {rebelled against me}, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and they went after [things which] do not profit.

Because of the sins of her prophets, the guilt of her priests, who shed blood in her midst, of righteous people.

Its rulers judge for a bribe; its priests teach for a price; its prophets practice divination for money. But they lean on Yahweh, saying, "[Is] not Yahweh in our midst? Disaster will not come upon us."

Her officials in her midst [are] roaring lions; her judges [are] evening wolves; they leave nothing until the morning.

"A son honors [his] father, and a slave his master; but if I [am] a father, where [is] my honor, and if I [am] a master, where [is] my reverence?" says Yahweh of hosts to you, O priests, {who despise} my name. "But you say, 'How have we despised your name?'

"And so then, O priests, this command [is] for you:

Profaned

"Tell Aaron and his sons that they must deal respectfully with the {Israelites}' votive offerings, and they must not profane my holy name, which they are consecrating to me; I [am] Yahweh.

Also, before they {offered up} the fat as a burnt offering, the servant of the priest would come and say to the man who was sacrificing, "Give the priest meat for roasting, for he will not take boiled meat from you, but only {raw}."

Put no

And they will teach my people [the difference] between what is holy and what is unholy, and [the difference] between unclean and clean they must show them.

And Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu each took his censer, and they put fire in them and placed incense on it; then they presented {before} Yahweh illegitimate fire, which he had not commanded them.

to distinguish between the unclean and the clean and between the animal that is to be eaten and the animal that must not be eaten.'"

And you shall distinguish between the clean and the unclean animal and between the unclean and the clean bird; and you shall not defile yourselves with the animal or with the bird or with anything that moves along the ground that I have set apart for you {as unclean}.

Therefore thus says Yahweh, "If you turn back, then I will take you back. You will stand {before me}. And if you utter [what is] precious and not [what is] worthless, you will be as my mouth. They will turn back to you, and you will not turn back to them.

"Thus says Yahweh of hosts: 'Ask now the priests [for] a ruling:

Hid their

You despised my holy objects; my Sabbaths you profaned.

And also my Sabbaths I gave to them to be a sign between me and between them {so they would know} that I, Yahweh, [am] [the one] sanctifying them.

I am profaned

And they came into the nations {to which they went}, and they profaned {my holy name} when they said to them, 'These [are] the people of Yahweh, and from his land they went out.'

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

General references

and to distinguish between the holy and the unholy, as well as between the unclean and the clean,

And they shall not profane the {Israelites}' votive offerings that they present to Yahweh,

For they ate the bread of wickedness, and they drank the wine of violence.

And the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the temple of Yahweh.

You despised my holy objects; my Sabbaths you profaned.

And they will teach my people [the difference] between what is holy and what is unholy, and [the difference] between unclean and clean they must show them.