Ezekiel 44:10

But as for the Levites who departed far from me when Israel went astray from me after their imaginations, they shall even bear their iniquity.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.

In Context

9Therefore thus saith the Lord God; No alien, uncircumcised in heart or uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of all the children of strangers that are in the midst of the house of Israel.

11Yet they shall minister in my sanctuary, being porters at the gates of the house, and serving the house: they shall slay the victims and the whole burnt offerings for the people, and they shall stand before the people to minister to them.

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Cross References

Genesis 4:13And Cain said to the Lord God, My crime is too great for me to be forgiven.

Numbers 5:31Then the man shall be clear from sin, and that woman shall bear her sin.

2 Kings 23:8And he brought up all the priests from the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests burned incense, from Geba even to Beersheba; and he pulled down the house of the gates that was by the door of the gate of Joshua the ruler of the city, on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.

Proverbs 11:31If the righteous scarcely be saved, 1 Where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

Jeremiah 23:11For priest and prophet are defiled; and I have seen their iniquities in my house.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 44:5-10

Idolatry of the Levites. ( b. c. 574.) 4 Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord : and I fell upon my face. 5 And the Lord said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the Lord , and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary. 6 And thou… Read the whole commentary →

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