Ezekiel 44:8

Easy-to-Read Version

You did not take care of my holy things. No, you let foreigners have responsibility of my holy place!'"

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You have not kept charge of my holy things but have appointed others to keep charge of my sanctuary for you.’

Hebrew Names Version
You have not kept the charge of my holy things; but you have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

King James Version
And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

English Standard Version
And you have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have set others to keep my charge for you in my sanctuary.

New American Standard Bible
"And you have not taken responsibility for My holy things yourselves, but you have appointed foreigners to take responsibility for My sanctuary."

New Century Version
You did not take care of my holy things yourselves but put foreigners in charge of my Temple.

Amplified Bible
"And you have not kept charge of My holy things yourselves, but you have chosen foreigners [to please yourselves] and have set them in charge of My sanctuary."

Geneva Bible (1587)
For yee haue not kept the ordinances of mine holy things: but you your selues haue set other to take the charge of my Sanctuarie.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"And you have not kept charge of My holy things yourselves, but you have set foreigners to keep charge of My sanctuary."

Legacy Standard Bible
And you have not kept the responsibility of My holy things yourselves, but you have set foreigners as keepers of the responsibility given by Me for My sanctuary."

Berean Standard Bible
And you have not kept charge of My holy things, but have appointed others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you.'

Contemporary English Version
Instead of following the proper ways to worship me, you have put foreigners in charge of worship at my temple.

Complete Jewish Bible
Instead of taking care of my holy things yourselves, you have put these people in charge of my sanctuary.'

Darby Translation
And ye have not kept the charge of my holy things, but have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

George Lamsa Translation
And you have not had charge of my sanctuary; but you have made the keepers of my sanctuary guards for yourselves.

Good News Translation
They have not taken charge of the sacred rituals in my Temple, but instead have put foreigners in charge.

Lexham English Bible
And you did not observe the responsibility of my sanctuary, but you appointed them as the keepers of my responsibility in my sanctuary for you."

Literal Translation
And you have not kept the charge of My holy things, but you have set them as keepers of My charge in My sanctuary, for themselves.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and not kepte the holy ordinaunces of my Sanctuary: but set kepers of my Sanctuary, euen after youre owne mynde.

American Standard Version
And ye have not kept the charge of my holy things; but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

Bible in Basic English
And you have not taken care of my holy things; but you have put them as keepers to take care of my work in my holy place.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And ye have not kept the charge of My holy things; but ye have set keepers of My charge in My sanctuary to please yourselves.

King James Version (1611)
And yee haue not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye haue set keepers of my charge in my Sanctuarie for your selues.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And ye haue not kept the ordinaunces of my holy thinges, and ye haue set kepers to kepe my sanctuarie for you.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and ye appointed others to keep the charges in my sanctuary.

English Revised Version
And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

World English Bible
You have not kept the charge of my holy things; but you have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And ye kepten not the comaundementis of my seyntuarie, and ye settiden keperis of my kepyngis in my seyntuarye to you silf.

Update Bible Version
And you have not kept the charge of my holy things; but you have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

Webster's Bible Translation
And ye have not kept the charge of my holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

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

New King James Version
And you have not kept charge of My holy things, but you have set others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you."

New Living Translation
Instead of safeguarding my sacred rituals, you have hired foreigners to take charge of my sanctuary.

New Life Bible
And you have not taken care of My holy things yourselves. You have let strangers take care of My holy place."

New Revised Standard
And you have not kept charge of my sacred offerings; but you have appointed foreigners to act for you in keeping my charge in my sanctuary.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Neither kept ye the charge of my holy things,- But ye did set men to be keepers of my charge in my sanctuary, for your own pleasure,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And you have not kept the ordinances of my sanctuary: but you have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

Revised Standard Version
And you have not kept charge of my holy things; but you have set foreigners to keep my charge in my sanctuary.

Young's Literal Translation
and ye have not kept the charge of My holy things, and ye set [them] for keepers of My charge in My sanctuary for you.

Contextual Overview

⁴ Then the man led me through the north gate to the front of the Temple. I looked and saw the Glory of the Lord filling the Lord 's Temple. I bowed with my face touching the ground. ⁵ The Lord said to me, "Son of man, look very carefully! Use your eyes and ears. Look at these things, and listen very carefully to everything that I tell you about all the rules and laws about the Lord 's Temple. Look carefully at the entrances to the Temple and at all the exits from the holy place. ⁶ Then give this message to all the people of Israel who refused to obey me. Tell them, ‘This is what the Lord God said: Family of Israel, I have had enough of the terrible things you have done! ⁷ You brought foreigners into my Temple who are not circumcised and have not given themselves to me. In this way you made my Temple unclean. You broke our agreement and did terrible things, and then you gave me the offerings of bread, the fat, and the blood. But this only made my Temple unclean. ⁸ You did not take care of my holy things. No, you let foreigners have responsibility of my holy place!'" ⁹ This is what the Lord God says: "A foreigner who is not truly circumcised must not come into my Temple—not even a foreigner living permanently among the people of Israel. He must be circumcised, and he must give himself completely to me before he can come into my Temple.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ye have not: Leviticus 22:2-33, Numbers 18:3-5, Acts 7:53, 1 Timothy 6:13, 2 Timothy 4:1

charge: or, ward, or ordinance, and so Ezekiel 44:14, Ezekiel 44:16, Ezekiel 40:45, Ezekiel 40:46, 1 Chronicles 23:32, Ezra 8:24-30

Reciprocal: Numbers 3:10 - they shall Numbers 8:26 - to keep Numbers 9:23 - they kept 2 Chronicles 13:11 - we keep Zephaniah 3:4 - her priests Zechariah 3:7 - if thou wilt keep

Cross-References

Genesis 42:21
They said to each other, "We are being punished for the bad thing we did to our younger brother Joseph. We saw the trouble he was in. He begged us to save him, but we refused to listen. So now we are in trouble."

Genesis 42:27
That night the brothers stopped at a place to spend the night. One of the brothers opened his sack to get some grain for his donkey. And there in the sack, he saw his money!

Genesis 42:35
Then the brothers started taking the grain out of their sacks, and every brother found his bag of money in his sack of grain. When the brothers and their father saw the money, they were afraid.

Genesis 43:12
Take twice as much money with you this time. Take the money that was given back to you after you paid last time. Maybe the governor made a mistake.

Genesis 44:7
But the brothers said to the servant, "Why does the governor say these things? We wouldn't do anything like that!

Genesis 44:10
The servant said, "I agree, except that only the man who is found to have the cup will be my slave. The others will be free."

Genesis 44:11
Then every brother quickly opened his sack on the ground.

Genesis 44:21
Then you said to us, ‘Bring that brother to me. I want to see him.'

Genesis 44:22
And we said to you, ‘That young boy cannot come. He cannot leave his father. If his father loses him, his father will be so sad that he will die.'

Exodus 20:15
"You must not steal anything.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things,.... That is, have not kept and retained the holy doctrines of the Gospel; nor observed the holy ordinances of it, as they were first delivered:

but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves; meaning either, that such as were in public office did not attend to it; but were idol shepherds, and left the flock, their care and charge, to others, to surrogates and curates, to do their work for them; while they indulged themselves in sloth and idleness: or that the members and hearers set up preachers for themselves, according to their lusts, agreeable to their own carnal sentiments, without any regard to the will and glory of God.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Admonition to the ministering priests, grounded upon former neglect.

Ezekiel 44:4

The north gate before the house - The north gate of the inner court. God expostulates with His people in the seat of their former idolatries Ezekiel 8:3.

Ezekiel 44:5

Mark well - The careful arrangements made had all been intended to keep the temple and its surroundings from profanation. Hence, attention to these particulars is enjoined.

Ezekiel 44:7

Strangers - This refers especially to the sin of unauthorized and unfaithful priests ministering in the services of the temple. Compare marginal references.

Ezekiel 44:8

Mine holy things - The altar, its sacrifices, the sacred utensils, and the like.

For yourselves - According to your own pleasure, not My ordinances Numbers 16:40.

Ezekiel 44:10

The Levites as a body had remained true to the temple-service at Jerusalem 2 Chronicles 11:13; but individuals among them deserted to Israel probably from the first (see the marginal references), as in later years some went over to the worship of the Samaritans on Mount Gerizim. These apostate Levites “shall bear their iniquities,” they shall not be restored to their former rank and privileges.

Ezekiel 44:11

Ministers - As, according to the new system, the Levites, as a body, were to receive their portion in the “oblation” Ezekiel 45:5; the only manner in which the Levites of Ezekiel 44:10 could live at all, was as part of the whole body, to which they were therefore reunited, but in the lowest grade. It is remarkable that the number of Levites who returned after the captivity was very small, not exceeding 400, of whom only 74 were priests’ assistants (Ezra 2:40-42; compare Ezra 8:15-19). The gap in their number was filled up by 220 Nethinim (“given” ones), probably originally strangers and captives, who, although employed in the temple services, were held by the Jews in the lowest repute.

Ezekiel 44:12

Lifted up mine hand - i. e., “The Lord sware” Ezekiel 20:5, that they should bear their iniquities.