Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
Parallel translations
- WEB Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
- BSB They have also done this to Me: On that very same day, they defiled My sanctuary and profaned My Sabbaths.
- NKJV Moreover they have done this to Me: They have defiled My sanctuary on the same day and profaned My Sabbaths.
- NASB Again, they have done this to Me: they have defiled My sanctuary on the same day, and have profaned My Sabbaths.
- NLT Furthermore, they have defiled my Temple and violated my Sabbath day!
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Quick answer
On the very day of their idol worship they defiled God's sanctuary and profaned His Sabbaths. It highlights the brazen mixing of false worship with the trappings of true religion.
Overview
The added charge is the defilement of the temple and the desecration of the Sabbath, signs of the covenant. The people did not abandon outward religion; they corrupted it, blending idolatry with sacred things 'in the same day.' Such hypocrisy is especially offensive to God, who desires worship in spirit and truth, not divided allegiance.
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- Ezek 20:13But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
- 2 Kgs 21:7And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
- Ezek 7:20As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.
- Ezek 20:24Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.
- 2 Kgs 23:11–12And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
- Jer 17:27But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
- Neh 13:17–18Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?
- Ezek 22:8Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
- 2 Kgs 21:4And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
- Ezek 8:5–16Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.
- Ezek 5:11Wherefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD; Surely, because thou hast defiled my sanctuary with all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations, therefore will I also diminish thee; neither shall mine eye spare, neither will I have any pity.
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