Ezekiel 44:10

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“‘But the Levites who went far from me, straying off from me after their idols when Israel went astray, will be responsible for their sin.

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  • Ezek 22:26 : 26 Her priests abuse my law and have desecrated my holy things. They do not distinguish between the holy and the profane, or recognize any distinction between the unclean and the clean. They ignore my Sabbaths and I am profaned in their midst.
  • Ezek 48:11 : 11 This will be for the priests who are set apart from the descendants of Zadok who kept my charge and did not go astray when the people of Israel strayed off, like the Levites did.
  • Ezek 44:15 : 15 The Levitical Priests“‘But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, will approach me to minister to me; they will stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the Sovereign LORD.
  • 2 Kgs 23:8-9 : 8 He brought all the priests from the cities of Judah and ruined the high places where the priests had offered sacrifices, from Geba to Beer Sheba. He tore down the high place of the goat idols situated at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the city official, on the left side of the city gate. 9 (Now the priests of the high places did not go up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat unleavened cakes among their fellow priests.)
  • 2 Chr 29:4-5 : 4 He brought in the priests and Levites and assembled them in the square on the east side. 5 He said to them:“Listen to me, you Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, so you can consecrate the temple of the LORD God of your ancestors! Remove from the sanctuary what is ceremonially unclean!
  • Neh 9:34 : 34 Our kings, our leaders, our priests, and our ancestors have not kept your law. They have not paid attention to your commandments or your testimonies by which you have solemnly admonished them.
  • Ps 38:4 : 4 For my sins overwhelm me; like a heavy load, they are too much for me to bear.
  • Isa 53:11 : 11 Having suffered, he will reflect on his work, he will be satisfied when he understands what he has done.“My servant will acquit many, for he carried their sins.
  • Jer 23:11 : 11 Moreover, the LORD says,“Both the prophets and priests are godless. I have even found them doing evil in my temple!
  • Gen 4:13 : 13 Then Cain said to the LORD,“My punishment is too great to endure!
  • Lev 19:8 : 8 and the one who eats it will bear his punishment for iniquity because he has profaned what is holy to the LORD. That person will be cut off from his people.
  • Num 5:31 : 31 Then the man will be free from iniquity, but that woman will bear the consequences of her iniquity.’”
  • Num 18:23 : 23 But the Levites must perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites have no inheritance.
  • Zeph 3:4 : 4 Her prophets are proud; they are deceitful men. Her priests have defiled what is holy; they have broken God’s laws.
  • 1 Tim 5:22 : 22 Do not lay hands on anyone hastily and so identify with the sins of others. Keep yourself pure.

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  • Ezek 44:11-16
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    11Yet they will be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the temple, and serving the temple. They will slaughter the burnt offerings and the sacrifices for the people, and they will stand before them to minister to them.

    12Because they used to minister to them before their idols, and became a sinful obstacle to the house of Israel, consequently I have made a vow concerning them, declares the Sovereign LORD, that they will be responsible for their sin.

    13They will not come near me to serve me as priest, nor will they come near any of my holy things, the things which are most sacred. They will bear the shame of the abominable deeds they have committed.

    14Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the temple, all of its service and all that will be done in it.

    15The Levitical Priests“‘But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, will approach me to minister to me; they will stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the Sovereign LORD.

    16They will enter my sanctuary, and approach my table to minister to me; they will keep my charge.

  • Ezek 48:11
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    11This will be for the priests who are set apart from the descendants of Zadok who kept my charge and did not go astray when the people of Israel strayed off, like the Levites did.

  • Ezek 14:5-7
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    5I will do this in order to capture the hearts of the house of Israel, who have alienated themselves from me on account of all their idols.’

    6“Therefore say to the house of Israel,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Return! Turn from your idols, and turn your faces away from your abominations.

    7For when anyone from the house of Israel, or the resident foreigner who lives in Israel, separates himself from me and erects his idols in his heart and sets the obstacle leading to his iniquity before his face, and then consults a prophet to seek something from me, I the LORD am determined to answer him personally.

  • Num 18:23
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    23But the Levites must perform the service of the tent of meeting, and they must bear their iniquity. It will be a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations that among the Israelites the Levites have no inheritance.

  • 2 Chr 11:14
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    14The Levites even left their pasturelands and their property behind and came to Judah and Jerusalem, for Jeroboam and his sons prohibited them from serving as the LORD’s priests.

  • Num 8:14-15
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    14And so you are to separate the Levites from among the Israelites, and the Levites will be mine.

    15“After this, the Levites will go in to do the work of the tent of meeting. So you must cleanse them and offer them like a wave offering.

  • Ezek 44:7-9
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    7When you bring foreigners, those uncircumcised in heart and in flesh, into my sanctuary, you desecrate it– even my house– when you offer my food, the fat and the blood. You have broken my covenant by all your abominable practices.

    8You have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have assigned foreigners to keep charge of my sanctuary for you.

    9This is what the Sovereign LORD says: No foreigner, who is uncircumcised in heart and flesh among all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, will enter into my sanctuary.

  • Ezek 14:11
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    11so that the house of Israel will no longer go astray from me, nor continue to defile themselves by all their sins. They will be my people and I will be their God, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”

  • Jer 11:10
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    10They have gone back to the evil ways of their ancestors of old who refused to obey what I told them. They, too, have paid allegiance to other gods and worshiped them. Both the nation of Israel and the nation of Judah have violated the covenant I made with their ancestors.

  • Jer 2:5
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    5This is what the Lord says:“What fault could your ancestors have possibly found in me that they strayed so far from me? They paid allegiance to worthless idols, and so became worthless to me.

  • Ezek 6:9
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    9Then your survivors will remember me among the nations where they are exiled. They will realize how I was crushed by their unfaithful heart which turned from me and by their eyes which lusted after their idols. They will loathe themselves because of the evil they have done and because of all their abominable practices.

  • Mal 2:8
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    8You, however, have turned from the way. You have caused many to violate the law; you have corrupted the covenant with Levi,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

  • Ezek 36:20
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    20But when they arrived in the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name. It was said of them,‘These are the people of the LORD, yet they have departed from his land.’

  • Lev 26:39
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    39Restoration through Confession and Repentance“‘As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors’ iniquities which are with them.

  • Hos 7:13
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    13Israel Has Turned Away from the Lord Woe to them! For they have fled from me! Destruction to them! For they have rebelled against me! I want to deliver them, but they have lied to me.

  • Hos 5:6
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    6The Futility of Sacrificial Ritual without Moral Obedience Although they bring their flocks and herds to seek the favor of the LORD, They will not find him– he has withdrawn himself from them!

  • Num 8:22
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    22After this, the Levites went in to do their work in the tent of meeting before Aaron and before his sons. As the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so they did.

  • Jer 14:10
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    10Then the LORD spoke about these people.“They truly love to go astray. They cannot keep from running away from me. So I am not pleased with them. I will now call to mind the wrongs they have done and punish them for their sins.”

  • Lev 26:43
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    43The land will be abandoned by them in order that it may make up for its Sabbaths while it is made desolate without them, and they will make up for their iniquity because they have rejected my regulations and have abhorred my statutes.

  • Lam 4:15
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    15ס(Samek) People cry to them,“Turn away! You are unclean! Turn away! Turn away! Don’t touch us!” So they have fled and wander about; but the nations say,“They may not stay here any longer.”

  • Num 18:6
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    6I myself have chosen your brothers the Levites from among the Israelites. They are given to you as a gift from the LORD, to perform the duties of the tent of meeting.

  • 2 Chr 24:18
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    18They abandoned the temple of the LORD God of their ancestors, and worshiped the Asherah poles and idols. Because of this sinful activity, God was angry with Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 2 Chr 13:9-10
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    9But you banished the LORD’s priests, Aaron’s descendants, and the Levites, and appointed your own priests just as the surrounding nations do! Anyone who comes to consecrate himself with a young bull or seven rams becomes a priest of these fake gods!

    10But as for us, the LORD is our God and we have not rejected him. Aaron’s descendants serve as the LORD’s priests and the Levites assist them with the work.

  • Ezek 20:39
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    39“‘As for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Each of you go and serve your idols, if you will not listen to me. But my holy name will not be profaned again by your sacrifices and your idols.

  • Jer 5:7
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    7The LORD asked,“How can I leave you unpunished, Jerusalem? Your people have rejected me and have worshiped gods that are not gods at all. Even though I supplied all their needs, they were like an unfaithful wife to me. They went flocking to the houses of prostitutes.

  • Ezek 39:23-24
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    23The nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile due to their iniquity, for they were unfaithful to me. So I hid my face from them and handed them over to their enemies; all of them died by the sword.

    24According to their uncleanness and rebellion I have dealt with them, and I hid my face from them.

  • Num 8:6
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    6“Take the Levites from among the Israelites and purify them.

  • Ezek 43:9
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    9Now they must put away their spiritual prostitution and the pillars of their kings far from me, and then I will live among them forever.

  • Neh 13:10
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    10I also discovered that the portions for the Levites had not been provided, and that as a result the Levites and the singers who performed this work had all gone off to their fields.

  • Ezek 20:16
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    16I did this because they rejected my regulations, did not follow my statutes, and desecrated my Sabbaths; for their hearts followed their idols.

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    6You Israelites! Return to the one against whom you have so blatantly rebelled!

  • Ezek 39:26
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    26They will bear their shame for all their unfaithful acts against me, when they live securely on their land with no one to make them afraid.

  • Ezek 11:16
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    16“Therefore say:‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Although I have removed them far away among the nations and have dispersed them among the countries, I have been a little sanctuary for them among the lands where they have gone.’

  • Deut 18:1
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    1Provision for Priests and Levites The Levitical priests– indeed, the entire tribe of Levi– will have no allotment or inheritance with Israel; they may eat the burnt offerings of the LORD and of his inheritance.

  • Ezek 20:24
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    24I did this because they did not observe my regulations, they rejected my statutes, they desecrated my Sabbaths, and their eyes were fixed on their fathers’ idols.

  • Ezek 44:27
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    27On the day he enters the sanctuary, into the inner court to serve in the sanctuary, he must offer his sin offering, declares the Sovereign LORD.

  • Jer 34:18
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    18I will punish those people who have violated their covenant with me. I will make them like the calf they cut in two and passed between its pieces. I will do so because they did not keep the terms of the covenant they made in my presence.

  • Lev 22:16
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    16and so cause them to incur a penalty for guilt when they eat their holy offerings, for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”