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

But the sons of Eli were unthrifty children, and knew not the LORD. For the manner of the priests with the people was:

The priests themselves said not once, 'Where is the LORD?' They that have the law in their hands, know me not: The shepherds offend against me. The Prophets do service unto Baal, and follow such things as shall bring them no profit.

{Mem} Which nevertheless is come to pass for the sins of her prophets, and for the wickedness of her priests that have shed innocents' blood within her.

O ye judges, ye give sentence for gifts; O ye priests, ye teach for lucre; O ye prophets, ye prophesy for money. Yet will they be taken as those that hold upon God, and say, "Is not the LORD among us? Tush, there can no misfortune happen us."

Her rulers within her are as roaring lions: her judges are as wolves in the evening, which leave nothing behind them till the morrow.

"Should not a son honour his father, and a servant his master? If I be now a father, where is mine honour? If I be the LORD, where am I feared? sayeth the LORD of Hosts, now, to you priests that despise my name. And if ye say, 'Wherein have we despised thy name?'

And now, O ye priests, this commandment toucheth you.

Profaned

"Bid Aaron and his sons that they abstain from the hallowed things of the children of Israel which they have hallowed unto me, that they pollute not mine holy name: for I am the LORD.

Yea, and thereto before they had offered the fat, the priest's lad came and said to the man that offered, "Give flesh to roast for the priest, for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw."

Put no

They shall show my people the difference between the holy and unholy, betwixt the clean and unclean.

And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censor, and put fire therein, and put cense upon; and brought strange fire before the LORD: which he commanded them not.

that ye may put difference between unclean and clean, and between the beasts that are eaten and the beasts that are not eaten.'"

that ye should put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and them that are clean. Make not your souls therefore abominable with beasts and fowls, and with all manner thing that creepeth upon the ground, which I have separated unto you to hold them unclean.

Upon these words, thus said the LORD unto me, "If thou wilt turn again, I shall set thee in my service: and if thou wilt take out the thing that is precious from the vile, thou shalt be even as mine own mouth. They shall convert unto thee, but turn not thou unto them:

"Thus sayeth the LORD God of hosts: Ask the priests concerning the law, and say,

Hid their

Thou hast despised my Sanctuary, and unhallowed my Sabbath.

I gave them also my holy days, to be a token betwixt me and them, and thereby to know that I am the LORD which halloweth them.

I am profaned

Now when they were gone unto the Heathen, and come in among them they dishonoured my holy name: so that it was said of them, 'Are these the people of God, and must go out of their own land?'

For the name of God is evil spoken-of among the gentiles, through you, as it is written.

General references

that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean,

And let the priests see, that they defile not the hallowed things of the children of Israel which they have offered unto the LORD,

For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of robbery.

And the priests, the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah preach these words in the house of the LORD.

Thou hast despised my Sanctuary, and unhallowed my Sabbath.

They shall show my people the difference between the holy and unholy, betwixt the clean and unclean.