Ezekiel 22:8

You have spurned my sanctuaries, and you have defiled my Sabbaths.

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.

In Context

7They have abused father and mother within you. The new arrival has been oppressed in your midst. They have grieved the orphan and the widow among you.

9Maligning men were within you, in order to shed blood, and they have eaten upon the mountains within you. They have worked wickedness in your midst.

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Cross References

Leviticus 19:30Observe my Sabbaths, and be apprehensive toward my Sanctuary. I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 20:20And sanctify my Sabbaths, so that these may be a sign between me and you, and so that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’

Ezekiel 20:24For they had not accomplished my judgments, and they had rejected my precepts, and they had violated my Sabbaths. And their eyes had been after the idols of their fathers.

Ezekiel 23:38But they have done even this to me: They have defiled my sanctuary on the same day, and they have profaned my Sabbaths.

Malachi 1:6The son honors the father, and the servant his master. If, therefore, I am Father, where is my honor? And if I am Master, where is my fear? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. And you have said, “In what way, have we despised your name?”

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 22:2-17

The Sins of Jerusalem. ( b. c. 591.) 1 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 2 Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations. 3 Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord God , The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself. 4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused… Read the whole commentary →

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