Ezekiel 22:8

You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

World English Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

9Slanderous men have been in you to shed blood. In you they have eaten on the mountains. They have committed lewdness among you.

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Cross References

Leviticus 19:30“‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 20:20Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’

Ezekiel 20:24because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.

Ezekiel 23:38Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

Malachi 1:6“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me?” says the LORD of Armies to you priests who despise my name. “You say, ‘How 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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