Ezekiel 44:8

and ye appointed others to keep the charges in my sanctuary.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

In Context

7that ye have brought in aliens, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, and to profane it, when ye offered bread, flesh, and blood; and ye transgressed my covenant by all your iniquities;

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.

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Cross References

Leviticus 22:10And no stranger shall eat the holy things: one that sojourns with a priest, or a hireling, shall not eat the holy things.

Numbers 8:26And his brother shall serve in the tabernacle of witness to keep charges, but he shall not do works: so shalt thou do to the Levites in their charges.

Numbers 18:7And thou and thy sons after thee shall keep up your priestly ministration, according to the whole manner of the altar, and that which is within the veil; and ye shall minister in the services as the office of your priesthood; and the stranger that comes near shall die.

Ezra 8:24And I gave charge to twelve of the chiefs of the priests, to Sherebiah, to Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them.

Ezekiel 44:14They shall bring them to keep the charges of the house, for all the service of it, and for all that they shall do.

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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