Ezekiel 44:8
in Ezekiel 44And you have not kept charge of My holy things, but have appointed others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you.’
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And ye have not kept the charge of my holy things; but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
KJV
And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
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This verse in Ezekiel 44
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
by way of the north gate
on Ezekiel 44:4-9
The prophet sees the glory filling the house and falls facedown again. Israel had brought in “foreigners uncircumcised in both heart and flesh” while offering “the fat and the blood,” and so broke His covenant. The command is exact: “No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and flesh may enter My sanctuary.”
This site's exposition
appointed others to keep charge of My sanctuary
The fault here is handing the Lord's service to others. Israel's own priests and Levites were charged to guard the sanctuary (Numbers 18:3 to 5), but they gave that trust to outsiders. Verses 10 to 14 answer by reassigning the guard duty.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(V. 6 seqq.) And you shall say to the rebellious house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: Sufficient for you are all your sins, O house of Israel, because you bring in foreign sons (or foreigners) uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary and to defile my temple, and you offer my bread, fat, and blood, and you have broken (or transgressed) my covenant in all your sins; and you have not kept the precepts of my sanctuary and you have set the ministers of my observances in my sanctuary for yourselves.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Levites . . . shall . . . bear--namely, the punishment of their iniquity . . . Yet they shall be ministers--So Mark, a Levite, nephew of Barnabas (Ac 4:36), was punished by Paul for losing an opportunity of bearing the cross of Christ, and yet was afterwards admitted into his friendship again, and showed his zeal (Ac 13:13;
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The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְלֹ֥א | velo' | and not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| שְׁמַרְתֶּ֖ם | shemartem | you kept | H8104 → | 468 times |
| מִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת | mishmeret | [the] charge of | H4931 → | 78 times |
| קָדָשָׁ֑י | kadashai | holy things my | H6944 → | 469 times |
| וַתְּשִׂימ֗וּן | vatesimun | and you appointed [them] ! | H7760 → | 584 times |
| לְשֹׁמְרֵ֧י | leshomerei | to [the] keepers of | H8104 → | 468 times |
| מִשְׁמַרְתִּ֛י | mishmarti | charge my | H4931 → | 78 times |
| בְּמִקְדָּשִׁ֖י | bemikdashi | in sanctuary my | H4720 → | 75 times |
| לָכֶֽם׃ | lakhem | for yourselves |
וְלֹ֥אand not
velo'H3808 →5168 times
שְׁמַרְתֶּ֖םyou kept
shemartemH8104 →468 times
מִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת[the] charge of
mishmeretH4931 →78 times
קָדָשָׁ֑יholy things my
kadashaiH6944 →469 times
וַתְּשִׂימ֗וּןand you appointed [them] !
vatesimunH7760 →584 times
לְשֹׁמְרֵ֧יto [the] keepers of
leshomereiH8104 →468 times
מִשְׁמַרְתִּ֛יcharge my
mishmartiH4931 →78 times
בְּמִקְדָּשִׁ֖יin sanctuary my
bemikdashiH4720 →75 times
לָכֶֽם׃for yourselves
lakhem
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Acts 7:53you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.”
it leads to
- Hebrews 2:2
For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every transgression and disobedience received its just punishment,
- Galatians 3:19
Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.
- Acts 7:38
He was in the assembly in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. And he received living words to pass on to us.
- John 7:19
Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”
- Hebrews 2:2
Through
1 Timothy 6:13I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who made the good confession in His testimony before Pontius Pilate:
it leads to
- John 18:36–37
Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world; if it were, My servants would fight to prevent My arrest by the Jews. But now My kingdom is not of this realm.”
- Matthew 27:11
Meanwhile Jesus stood before the governor, who questioned Him: “Are You the King of the Jews?” “You have said so,” Jesus replied.
- 1 Timothy 5:21
I solemnly charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels to maintain these principles without bias, and to do nothing out of partiality.
- John 18:36–37
Through
Ezekiel 44:16They alone shall enter My sanctuary and draw near to My table to minister before Me. They will keep My charge.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 41:22
There was an altar of wood three cubits high and two cubits square. Its corners, base, and sides were of wood. And the man told me, “This is the table that is before the…
- Ezekiel 41:22
Where this verse is studied
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About Ezekiel
This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.