God’s Word Translation
Ezekiel 22:8
8You have despised my holy things and dishonored the day to worship me.
Ezekiel 22:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
- New International Version (NIV)You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
Context of Ezekiel 22:8
6“ ‘See how all the princes of Israel who live in you have used their power to murder people. 7People in you hate their fathers and mothers. They oppress foreigners in you. They oppress orphans and widows in you. You have despised my holy things and dishonored the day to worship me. 9Some of your people slander. They want to kill people. People who live in you eat food sacrificed to idols at the worship sites on the hills, and they sin sexually. 10Men have sex with their father’s wives. They have sex with women when the women are having their periods and are unclean.
Read all of Ezekiel 22Ezekiel 22:8 word by word
קָדָשַׁ֖י בָּזִ֑ית וְאֶת־שַׁבְּתֹתַ֖י חִלָּֽלְתְּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Ezekiel 22:8
- Ezekiel 22:26Your priests violate my teachings and dishonor my holy things. They don’t distinguish between what is holy and what is unholy. They don’t teach the difference between what is clean and what is unclean. They ignore the days to worship me. So I am dishonored among the people.
- Ezekiel 20:13“ ‘But the people of Israel rebelled against me in the desert. They didn’t live by my laws, and they rejected my rules. If people obey them, they will live. They dishonored the days of rest—holy days on which to worship me. So I was going to pour out my fury on them in the desert and completely wipe them out.
- Ezekiel 23:38They have also done this to me: They have polluted my holy places when they do these things and dishonored the days to worship me.
- Leviticus 19:30“Observe my days of rest as holy days and respect my holy tent. I am the Lord.
- Amos 8:4Listen to this, those who trample on the needy and ruin those who are oppressed in the world.
- Malachi 1:6“This is what the Lord of Armies says: A son honors his father, and a servant honors his master. So if I am a father, where is my honor? If I am a master, where is my respect? You priests despise my name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised your name?’
Commentaries on Ezekiel 22:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8Thou hast despised - All my ordinances are not only neglected, but treated with contempt; and my Sabbaths profaned. There is not only no power of godliness among you, but there is no form.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 6-12The charges against the people of Judah and their leaders came from God's law, especially from Leviticus 18–20; 25:1–55. Israel's many sins showed a failure to honor and trust the Lord and his commands. This unfaithfulness to their covenant with the Lord could lead to only one outcome: The people of Israel would face the covenant curses (Deuteronomy 8:19–20; 28:15–68).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 7-127. set light by--Children have made light of, disrespected, father ... (De 27:16). At Eze 22:7-12 are enumerated the sins committed in violation of Moses' law.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ezekiel 22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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