Ezekiel 44:12
Because they used to wait upon them before their manufactured gods, and became to the house of Israel a stumbling-block of iniquity, For this cause have I lifted up my hand concerning them Declareth My Lord Yahweh, and they shall bear their iniquity;
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Deuteronomy 32:40For I lift up unto the heavens my hand,—And say, Living am, I, unto times age-abiding:
2 Kings 16:10So then King Ahaz went to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, in Damascus, and saw the altar which was in Damascus,—and King Ahaz, sent unto Urijah the priest, a likeness of the altar, and a model thereof, according to all the workmanship thereof;
Isaiah 9:16And they who should have led this people forward have been causing them to stray,—And, they who are led of them are destroyed,
Ezekiel 20:6In that day, lifted I up my hand to them, to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt,—into a land that I had looked out for them flowing with milk and honey, The beauty, it was of all lands,
Ezekiel 20:23Even, I, lifted up my hand to them in the desert,— That I would disperse them throughout the nations, And scatter them throughout the lands;
Ezekiel 44:10But as for the Levites. Who went far from me, when Israel went astray. Who went astray from me, after their manufactured gods, Therefore shall they bear their iniquity,
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 44:11-17
Idolatrous Priests Degraded. ( b. c. 574.) 10 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. 11 Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, having charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall stand before them to minister unto them. 12 Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused… Read the whole commentary →