Ezekiel 7:22
in Ezekiel 7I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.
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ASV
My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret place; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.
KJV
My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
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This verse in Ezekiel 7
Commentary
8 notes on this verse(Verse 22) And I will turn my face away from them: and they will violate my sanctuary: and emissaries will enter it (as the Septuagint rashly translated, or as Symmachus and Theodotio, bursting in, and pestilential), and they will defile it.
This site's exposition
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on Ezekiel 7:20-22
The charge narrows to the temple’s treasures. So the Lord says, “I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place.” Keil sets this beside chapters 8 to 11, where the glory’s departure is shown in vision.
This site's exposition
My treasured place
The Lord will turn His face away from His people, and they will defile His treasured place. Albert Barnes identifies it as the inner sanctuary, hidden from the crowd. Violent men will break in and defile it.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
This they had prided themselves in, and promised themselves security from ( Jer. vii. 11 ); but this confidence of theirs shall fail them. The great honour God had done to that people in setting up his sanctuary among them (
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The Nineteenth Century3 voices
The robbers shall enter into it - The Chaldeans shall not only destroy the city; but they shall enter the temple, deface it, plunder it, and burn it to the ground.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
pollute my secret place--just retribution for the Jews' pollution of the temple. "Robbers shall enter and defile" the holy of holies, the place of God's manifested presence, entrance into which was denied even to the Levites and priests and was permitted to the high priest only once a year on the great day of atonement.
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A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
My secret place - The inner sanctuary, hidden from the multitude, protected by the most high.
The words behind it
10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַהֲסִבּוֹתִ֤י | vahasiboti | and I will turn around | H5437 → | 161 times |
| פָנַי֙ | fanai | face my | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| מֵהֶ֔ם | mehem | from them | ||
| וְחִלְּל֖וּ | vechilelu | and they will profane | H2490 → | 143 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| צְפוּנִ֑י | tzefuni | treasured [place] my | H6845 → | |
| וּבָאוּ־ | uvau- | and they will go | H935 → | 2568 times |
| בָ֥הּ | vah | in it | ||
| פָּרִיצִ֖ים | paritzim | robbers | H6530 → | |
| וְחִלְּלֽוּהָ׃ פ | vechileluha | and they will profane it | H2490 → | 143 times |
וַהֲסִבּוֹתִ֤יand I will turn around
vahasibotiH5437 →161 times
פָנַי֙face my
fanaiH6440 →2123 times
מֵהֶ֔םfrom them
mehem
וְחִלְּל֖וּand they will profane
vechileluH2490 →143 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
צְפוּנִ֑יtreasured [place] my
tzefuniH6845 →
וּבָאוּ־and they will go
uvau-H935 →2568 times
בָ֥הּin it
vah
פָּרִיצִ֖יםrobbers
paritzimH6530 →
וְחִלְּלֽוּהָ׃ פand they will profane it
vechileluhaH2490 →143 times
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
Psalms 35:22O LORD, You have seen it; be not silent. O Lord, be not far from me.
it leads to
- Exodus 3:7
The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.
- Psalms 10:1
Why, O LORD, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?
- Psalms 28:1
To You, O LORD, I call; be not deaf to me, O my Rock. For if You remain silent, I will be like those descending to the Pit.
- Psalms 22:11
Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help.
- Exodus 3:7
Through
Jeremiah 18:17I will scatter them before the enemy like the east wind. I will show them My back and not My face in the day of their calamity.”
it leads to
- Jeremiah 13:24
“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.
- Jeremiah 2:27
say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ For they have turned their backs to Me and not their faces, yet in the time of trouble…
- Jeremiah 13:24
Through
Psalms 10:11He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
it leads to
- Ezekiel 8:12
“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are…
- Psalms 94:7
They say, “The LORD does not see; the God of Jacob pays no heed.”
- Ezekiel 8:12
About Ezekiel
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); 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; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.