Ezekiel 43:9

And now let them put away from me their fornication, and the murders of their princes, and I will dwell in the midst of them forever.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Now let them put away their whoredom, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.

In Context

8when they set my doorway by their doorway, and my thresholds near to their thresholds: and they made my wall as it were joining myself and them, and they profaned my holy name with their iniquities which they wrought: and I destroyed them in my wrath and with slaughter.

10And thou, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may cease from their sins; and show its aspect and the arrangement of it.

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Cross References

Exodus 29:45And I will be called upon among the children of Israel, and will be their God.

Psalms 68:17Hear me, O Lord; for thy mercy is good: 1 According to the multitude of thy compassions look upon me. 1

Ezekiel 37:23that they may no more defile themselves with their idols; and I will deliver them from all their transgressions whereby they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be to me a people, and I the Lord will be to them a God.

Ezekiel 43:7and he said to me, Son of man, thou hast seen the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, in which my name shall dwell in the midst of the house of Israel forever; and the house of Israel shall no more profane my holy name, they and their princes, by their fornication, or by the murders of their princes in the midst of them;

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 43:8-13

The Vision of the Temple. ( b. c. 574.) 7 And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places. 8 In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my… Read the whole commentary →

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