Ezekiel 44:12

The Levites Are Excluded From The Priesthood

¹¹ Then they will be in my sanctuary, [those] serving [in] my sanctuary, [as] sentries at the gates of the temple and [as] [those] serving the temple; they will slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they will stand {before them} to serve them, ¹² {because} they used to serve them {before} their idols and they were for the house of Israel [like] a stumbling block of iniquity. Therefore {I swore} concerning them," {declares} the Lord Yahweh, "[that] they will bear their iniquity. ¹³ And they shall not approach me to serve as priest for me and to come near to all of my holy objects, {to the most holy objects}, and they will bear their disgrace and [the results of] their detestable things they have done.

Bear Their Iniquity

Children of Israel

For This Cause

House of Israel

Lifted Up

Made a Vow

My People

Other Gods

Says the Lord

Stumbling Block

Declares The Lord

Israel

Jehovah

Sin

2 Kings 16:10-16

So King Ahaz went to meet Tiglath-Pileser the king of Assyria [in] Damascus, and he saw the altar which [was] in Damascus, so King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest the builder's plan of the altar and the {exact model of how it had been made}.

Psalm 106:26

So {he made an oath} against them, to make them drop in the wilderness,

Ezekiel 14:3-4

"Son of man, these men took up their idols into their heart and {they placed before themselves} a stumbling block of their guilt. {Should I really let myself be consulted by them}?

Ezekiel 20:15

And also {I myself swore} to them in the desert not to bring them into the land that I had given [to them], flowing with milk and honey--it [is the most] beautiful of all of the lands--

Ezekiel 20:23

What is more, {I swore} to them in the desert to scatter them among the nations and to disperse them in the lands,

Ezekiel 44:10

{But} the Levites who removed themselves from me {at the going astray of Israel}, who went astray from me [and went] after their idols, as a result they will bear their guilt.

Deuteronomy 32:40-42

For [indeed] I lift up my hand to heaven, And I promise {as I live forever},

1 Samuel 2:29-30

Why do you despise my sacrifice and my offering which I commanded [for my] dwelling place, while you honored your sons more than me by making yourselves fat from the best of all the offerings of my people Israel?

Isaiah 9:16

And the leaders of this people were misleading [them], and those who were led [were] confused.

Ezekiel 20:6

On that day {I swore} to them to bring them out from the land of Egypt to [the] land that I had searched out for them, flowing with milk and honey--it [is the most] beautiful of all of the lands.

Ezekiel 20:28

And I brought them to the land that {I swore} to give to them, and they saw every high hill and every leafy tree, and they offered their sacrifices, and they presented there the provocation of their offering, and they gave there their fragrant incense offering, and they poured out their libations there.

Ezekiel 44:13

And they shall not approach me to serve as priest for me and to come near to all of my holy objects, {to the most holy objects}, and they will bear their disgrace and [the results of] their detestable things they have done.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from acting as a priest for me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

Hosea 5:1

Hear this, priests! Give heed, house of Israel! Listen, house of the king! Because the judgment [applies] to you; because you have been a snare for Mizpah, and a net spread out on Tabor;

Amos 8:7

Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, "Surely I will never forget any of their deeds!

Malachi 2:8-9

But you, you have turned from the way; you have caused many to stumble by [your] instruction; you have ruined the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of hosts.

Revelation 10:5-6

And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven