Ezekiel 22:26

The priests violate God's law, profane holy things, blur the holy and common, ignore the Sabbath, so that God is profaned among them. The guardians of holiness betray their trust.

Cross-references · 23

• Lev 10:10You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,
• Ezek 22:8You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
• Ezek 44:23They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.
• Mal 2:8But you have departed from the way, and your instruction has caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of Hosts.
• Jer 2:8The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.
• 1 Sam 2:12–17Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD
• Mic 3:11–12Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.”
• Ezek 36:20And wherever they went among the nations, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, yet they had to leave His land.’
• 1 Sam 2:22Now Eli was very old, and he heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
• Jer 15:19Therefore this is what the LORD says: “If you return, I will restore you; you will stand in My presence. And if you speak words that are noble instead of worthless, you will be My spokesman. It is they who must turn to you, but you must not turn to them.
• Zeph 3:3–4Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.
• Ezek 20:12–13I also gave them My Sabbaths as a sign between us, so that they would know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
• Hag 2:11–14“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Ask the priests for a ruling.
• Rom 2:24As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”
• Jer 2:26–27As the thief is ashamed when he is caught, so the house of Israel is disgraced. They, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets
• Lev 20:25You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.
• Mal 2:1–3“And now this decree is for you, O priests:
• Mal 1:6–8“A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’
• Lev 11:47You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between animals that may be eaten and those that may not.’”
• Lam 4:13But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.
• Lev 10:1–3Now Aaron’s sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense, and offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to His command.
• 1 Sam 2:29Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’
• Lev 22:2–33“Tell Aaron and his sons to treat with respect the sacred offerings that the Israelites have consecrated to Me, so that they do not profane My holy name. I am the LORD.

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