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Ezequiel 44:7
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cuando introdujisteis extranjeros, incircuncisos de corazón e incircuncisos de carne, para que estuvieran en mi santuario y profanaran mi casa; cuando les ofrecisteis mi alimento, la grosura y la sangre; invalidasteis, pues, mi pacto; esto además de todas vuestras abominaciones.
De traer extranjeros, incircuncisos de corazn e incircuncisos de carne, para estar en mi santuario, y para contaminar mi casa; de ofrecer mi pan, la grosura y la sangre; y de quebrantar mi pacto con todas vuestras abominaciones.
De haber vosotros trado extranjeros, incircuncisos de corazn e incircuncisos de carne, para estar en mi Santuario, para contaminar mi Casa; de haber ofrecido mi pan, la grosura y la sangre; y quebrantaron mi pacto por todas vuestras abominaciones;
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
ye have brought: Ezekiel 44:9, Ezekiel 7:20, Ezekiel 22:26, Ezekiel 43:7, Ezekiel 43:8, Leviticus 22:25, Acts 21:28
strangers: Heb. children of a stranger, Isaiah 56:6, Isaiah 56:7
uncircumcised in heart: The introduction of uncircumcised persons to eat of the peace offerings and oblations, would have been a gross violation of the Mosaic law; but, as there was no law to exclude "the uncircumcised of heart," who were circumcised and ritually clean, this seems to point out a new and different constitution. Leviticus 26:41, Deuteronomy 10:16, Deuteronomy 30:6, Jeremiah 4:4, Jeremiah 9:26, Acts 7:51, Romans 2:28, Romans 2:29, Colossians 2:11-13
when: Leviticus 3:16, Leviticus 21:6, Leviticus 21:8, Leviticus 21:17, Leviticus 21:21, Leviticus 22:25, Malachi 1:7, Malachi 1:12-14, John 6:52-58
the fat: Leviticus 3:13-17, Leviticus 17:11
broken: Genesis 17:14, Leviticus 26:15, Deuteronomy 31:16, Deuteronomy 31:20, Isaiah 24:5, Jeremiah 11:10, Jeremiah 31:32, Hebrews 8:9
Reciprocal: Leviticus 3:5 - Aaron's Leviticus 3:11 - the food Leviticus 3:17 - blood Leviticus 17:10 - that eateth 1 Samuel 31:4 - uncircumcised Psalms 18:44 - strangers Lamentations 1:10 - whom Ezekiel 5:11 - thou hast Ezekiel 23:39 - thus Ezekiel 28:10 - the deaths Ezekiel 32:25 - all of them Ezekiel 44:15 - the fat Zephaniah 3:4 - her priests
Gill's Notes on the Bible
In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers,.... Unregenerate men, who are in a state of alienation and estrangement to divine and spiritual things: strangers to God; to the true knowledge of him in Christ; to the fear and love of God; to the true grace of God in conversion; and to communion with him: strangers to Christ, to his person and offices; to the way of peace, life, and salvation by him; to his righteousness; to faith in him, love of him, and fellowship with him: strangers to the Spirit; to his person, to regeneration and sanctification by him; to the graces of the Spirit, faith, hope, love, humility, self-denial, c. to the things of the Spirit, which they neither know nor savour; and to the several offices he performs, as a comforter, the Spirit of adoption, an earnest and sealer: strangers to their own hearts, and the plague of them, and sin that dwells in them: strangers to the nature of sin, and the exceeding sinfulness of it; to the deceitfulness of sin, and the consequences of it; to true repentance for it, and to the right way of atonement of it, by the blood of Christ: strangers to the Gospel of Christ, and the truths of it; and to the saints and people of God:
and uncircumcised in heart; who never were pricked in the heart for sin, or felt any pain there on account of it; never had the hardness of their heart removed, or the impurity of it discovered to them; never were filled with shame and loathing because of it; or ever put off the body of sins in a course of conversation; or renounced their own righteousness:
and uncircumcised in flesh; carnal, as they were born; men in the flesh, in a state of nature, mind and savour the things of the flesh, and do the works of it; having never been taught by the grace of God to deny ungodliness, and worldly lusts, and to abstain from fleshly ones: or, who put their trust in the flesh, in outward things, in carnal privileges, and external righteousness: these the Lord complains were brought
to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house: either to be members here, and partake of all the ordinances and privileges of the Lord's house; or to officiate here as priests and ministers of the Lord:
when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood; which, under the law, were the Lord's; and here signify the ministry of the word and ordinances, the goodness and fatness of the Lord's house; and especially the ordinance of the Lord's supper, that feast of fat things; in which Christ, the true and living bread of God, whose flesh is meat indeed, and whose blood is drink indeed, is represented to the faith of God's people:
and they have broken my covenant, because of all your abominations: that is, have broken the rule of the divine word and everlasting Gospel by such abominations; by admitting such ministers and members, the one to administer, the other to partake of, Gospel ordinances: this is the true state of the case of most of the reformed churches in our days; it is to be feared that there are multitudes of unregenerate ministers in them; that they are full of carnal professors; and notorious it is that the ordinance of the Lord's supper is prostituted to wicked persons, and to answer ends it never was designed for; which must be an abomination to the Lord.
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.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ezekiel 44:7. The fat and the blood — These never went into common use; they were wholly offered to God. The blood was poured out; the fat consumed.
Because of all your abominations. — Several MSS. of Kennicott's and De Rossi's read their abominations, referring to the strangers mentioned before.
