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They make no distinction between what is holy and what is not. And they do not teach my people the difference between what is ceremonially clean and unclean. They disregard my Sabbath days so that I am dishonored among them. <a href="/esv/ezekiel/22.htm">English Standard Version</a> Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. <a href="/bsb/ezekiel/22.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/22.htm">King James Bible</a> Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. <a href="/nkjv/ezekiel/22.htm">New King James Version</a> Her priests have violated My law and profaned My holy things; they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. <a href="/nasb_/ezekiel/22.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> Her priests have done violence to My Law and have profaned My holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, and they have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have closed their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I am defiled among them. <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/22.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8220Her priests have done violence to My law and have profaned My holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the profane, and they have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they hide their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. <a href="/nasb77/ezekiel/22.htm">NASB 1977 </a> “Her priests have done violence to My law and have profaned My holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the profane, and they have not taught the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they hide their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. <a href="/lsb/ezekiel/22.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> Her priests have done violence to My law and have profaned My holy things; they have made no separation between the holy and the profane, and they have not made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they hide their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. <a href="/amp/ezekiel/22.htm">Amplified Bible</a> Her priests have done violence to My law and have profaned My holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy (sacred) and the profane (secular), they have not taught [people] the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they hide their eyes from My Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. <a href="/csb/ezekiel/22.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Her priests do violence to my instruction and profane my holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they do not explain the difference between the clean and the unclean. They close their eyes to my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. <a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/22.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Her priests do violence to My instruction and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they do not explain the difference between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.&#8221 <a href="/asv/ezekiel/22.htm">American Standard Version</a> Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. <a href="/cev/ezekiel/22.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> The priests of Israel ignore my Law! Not only do they refuse to respect any of my sacred things, but they don't even teach the difference between what is sacred and what is ordinary or between what is clean and what is unclean. They treat my Sabbath like any other day, and so my own people no longer honor me. <a href="/erv/ezekiel/22.htm">English Revised Version</a> Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. <a href="/gwt/ezekiel/22.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Your 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. <a href="/gnt/ezekiel/22.htm">Good News Translation</a> The priests break my law and have no respect for what is holy. They make no distinction between what is holy and what is not. They do not teach the difference between clean and unclean things, and they ignore the Sabbath. As a result the people of Israel do not respect me. <a href="/isv/ezekiel/22.htm">International Standard Version</a> Her priests have violated my Law and profaned my sacred things. They didn't differentiate between what's sacred and what's common. They didn't instruct others to discern clean from unclean things. They refused to keep my Sabbaths. "'I'm constantly being profaned among them. <a href="/msb/ezekiel/22.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them. <a href="/net/ezekiel/22.htm">NET Bible</a> 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. <a href="/nheb/ezekiel/22.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. <a href="/wbt/ezekiel/22.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shown difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. <a href="/web/ezekiel/22.htm">World English Bible</a> Her priests have done violence to my law and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths. So I am profaned among them. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/ezekiel/22.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> Its priests have wronged My law, "" And they defile My holy things, "" They have not made separation between holy and common, "" And they have not made known [the difference] between the unclean and the clean, "" And they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, "" And I am pierced in their midst. <a href="/ylt/ezekiel/22.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> Its priests have wronged My law, And they pollute My holy things, Between holy and common they have not made separation, And between the unclean and the clean they have not made known, And from my sabbaths they have hidden their eyes, And I am pierced in their midst. <a href="/slt/ezekiel/22.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> Her priests did violence to my law, and they will profane my holy place: between the holy to the profane they separated not, and they did not make known between the unclean to the clean, and from my Sabbath they hid their eyes, and I shall be profaned in the midst of them.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/ezekiel/22.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Her priests have despised my law, and have defiled my sanctuaries: they have put no difference between holy and profane: nor have distinguished between the polluted and the clean: and they have turned away their eyes from my sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them. <a href="/cpdv/ezekiel/22.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> Her priests have despised my law, and they have defiled my sanctuaries. They have held no distinction between holy and profane. And they have not understood the difference between defiled and clean. And they have averted their eyes from my Sabbaths. And I was profaned in their midst. <a href="/nabre/ezekiel/22.htm">New American Bible</a> Her priests violate my law and desecrate what I consider holy; they do not distinguish between holy and common, nor teach the difference between unclean and clean; they pay no attention to my sabbaths, so that I have been desecrated in their midst. <a href="/nrsvce/ezekiel/22.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Its priests have done violence to my teaching and have profaned my holy things; they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they taught the difference between the unclean and the clean, and they have disregarded my sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/ezekiel/22.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Her priests have violated my law and have profaned my holy things; they have put no difference between the holy and the profane, neither have they distinguished between the unclean and the clean, and have refused to keep my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. <a href="/hpbt/ezekiel/22.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> Her Priests have done evil against my law and they have defiled my holiness, and between holiness and the unclean they have not distinguished, and they have not discerned between the defiled and the pure, and they have lowered their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am defiled among them<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/ezekiel/22.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> Her priests have done violence to My law, and have profaned My holy things; they have put no difference between the holy and the common, neither have they taught difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from My sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. <a href="/sep/ezekiel/22.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> Her priests also have set at nought my law, and profaned my holy things: they have not distinguished between the holy and profane, nor have they distinguished between the unclean and the clean, and have his their eyes from my sabbaths, and I was profaned in the midst of them. <a href="/parallel/ezekiel/22-26.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vET3Gmwku4s?start=6254" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/ezekiel/22.htm">The Sins of Prophets, Priests, Princes</a> …25The conspiracy of the princes in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They devour the people, seize the treasures and precious things, and multiply the widows within her. 26<a href="/hebrew/3548.htm" title="3548: kō·hă·ne·hā (N-mpc:: 3fs) -- Priest. Active participle of kahan; literally, one officiating, a priest; also an acting priest.">Her priests</a> <a href="/hebrew/2554.htm" title="2554: ḥā·mə·sū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To treat violently or wrong. A primitive root; to be violent; by implication, to maltreat.">do violence to</a> <a href="/hebrew/8451.htm" title="8451: ṯō·w·rā·ṯî (N-fsc:: 1cs) -- Direction, instruction, law. Or torah; from yarah; a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch.">My law</a> <a href="/hebrew/2490.htm" title="2490: way·ḥal·lə·lū (Conj-w:: V-Piel-ConsecImperf-3mp) -- A primitive root; properly, to bore, i.e. to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane, to break, to begin; denom. to play.">and profane</a> <a href="/hebrew/6944.htm" title="6944: qā·ḏā·šay (N-mpc:: 1cs) -- Apartness, sacredness. From qadash; a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity.">My holy things.</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">They make no</a> <a href="/hebrew/914.htm" title="914: hiḇ·dî·lū (V-Hifil-Perf-3cp) -- To be divided, separate. A primitive root; to divide.">distinction</a> <a href="/hebrew/996.htm" title="996: bên- (Prep) -- An interval, space between. ">between</a> <a href="/hebrew/6944.htm" title="6944: qō·ḏeš (N-ms) -- Apartness, sacredness. From qadash; a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity.">the holy</a> <a href="/hebrew/2455.htm" title="2455: lə·ḥōl (Prep-l:: N-ms) -- Profaneness, commonness. From chalal; properly, exposed; hence, profane.">and the common,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: lō (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">and they fail</a> <a href="/hebrew/3045.htm" title="3045: hō·w·ḏî·‘ū (V-Hifil-Perf-3cp) -- A primitive root; to know; used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially.">to distinguish</a> <a href="/hebrew/996.htm" title="996: ū·ḇên- (Conj-w:: Prep) -- An interval, space between. ">between</a> <a href="/hebrew/2889.htm" title="2889: lə·ṭā·hō·wr (Prep-l:: Adj-ms) -- Clean, pure. Or tahor; from taher; pure.">the clean</a> <a href="/hebrew/2931.htm" title="2931: haṭ·ṭā·mê (Art:: Adj-ms) -- Unclean. From tame'; foul in a relig. Sense.">and the unclean.</a> <a href="/hebrew/5956.htm" title="5956: he‘·lî·mū (V-Hifil-Perf-3cp) -- To conceal. A primitive root; to veil from sight, i.e. Conceal.">They disregard</a> <a href="/hebrew/5869.htm" title="5869: ‘ê·nê·hem (N-cdc:: 3mp) -- An eye. Probably a primitive word; an eye; by analogy, a fountain."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7676.htm" title="7676: ū·mi·šab·bə·ṯō·w·ṯay (Conj-w, Prep-m:: N-cpc:: 1cs) -- Sabbath. Intensive from shabath; intermission, i.e the Sabbath.">My Sabbaths,</a> <a href="/hebrew/2490.htm" title="2490: wā·’ê·ḥal (Conj-w:: V-Nifal-ConsecImperf-1cs) -- A primitive root; properly, to bore, i.e. to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane, to break, to begin; denom. to play.">so that I am profaned</a> <a href="/hebrew/8432.htm" title="8432: bə·ṯō·w·ḵām (Prep-b:: N-msc:: 3mp) -- Midst. From an unused root meaning to sever; a bisection, i.e. the centre.">among them.</a> 27Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/leviticus/10-10.htm">Leviticus 10:10</a> You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean, <a href="/malachi/2-7.htm">Malachi 2:7-8</a> For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts. / But you have departed from the way, and your instruction has caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of Hosts. <a href="/isaiah/5-20.htm">Isaiah 5:20</a> Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter. <a href="/hosea/4-6.htm">Hosea 4:6</a> My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children. <a href="/zephaniah/3-4.htm">Zephaniah 3:4</a> Her prophets are reckless, faithless men. Her priests profane the sanctuary; they do violence to the law. <a href="/jeremiah/23-11.htm">Jeremiah 23:11</a> “For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the LORD. <a href="/lamentations/4-13.htm">Lamentations 4:13</a> But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst. <a href="/1_samuel/2-12.htm">1 Samuel 2:12-17</a> Now the sons of Eli were wicked men; they had no regard for the LORD / or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling / and plunge it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or cooking pot. And the priest would claim for himself whatever the meat fork brought up. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh. ... <a href="/micah/3-11.htm">Micah 3:11</a> Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster can come upon us.” <a href="/zechariah/7-11.htm">Zechariah 7:11-12</a> But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing. / They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts. <a href="/matthew/23-23.htm">Matthew 23:23-28</a> Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. / You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel. / Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. ... <a href="/mark/7-6.htm">Mark 7:6-9</a> Jesus answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. / They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’ / You have disregarded the commandment of God to keep the tradition of men.” ... <a href="/luke/11-42.htm">Luke 11:42-44</a> Woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former. / Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the chief seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces. / Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without even noticing.” <a href="/romans/2-23.htm">Romans 2:23-24</a> You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? / As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” <a href="/1_corinthians/3-16.htm">1 Corinthians 3:16-17</a> Do you not know that you yourselves are God’s temple, and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? / If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him; for God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.priests<a href="/1_samuel/2-12.htm">1 Samuel 2:12-17,22</a> Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD… <a href="/jeremiah/2-8.htm">Jeremiah 2:8,26,27</a> The priests said not, Where is the LORD? and they that handle the law knew me not: the pastors also transgressed against me, and the prophets prophesied by Baal, and walked after things that do not profit… <a href="/lamentations/4-13.htm">Lamentations 4:13</a> For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,violated.<a href="/leviticus/22-2.htm">Leviticus 22:2</a> Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the LORD.<a href="/1_samuel/2-15.htm">1 Samuel 2:15,29</a> Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw… put no<a href="/ezekiel/44-23.htm">Ezekiel 44:23</a> And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.<a href="/leviticus/10-1.htm">Leviticus 10:1-3,10</a> And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not… <a href="/leviticus/11-47.htm">Leviticus 11:47</a> To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.hid their<a href="/ezekiel/22-8.htm">Ezekiel 22:8</a> Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.<a href="/ezekiel/20-12.htm">Ezekiel 20:12,13</a> Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them… I am profaned<a href="/ezekiel/36-20.htm">Ezekiel 36:20</a> And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.<a href="/romans/2-24.htm">Romans 2:24</a> For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.<div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/ezekiel/22-4.htm">Caused</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-4.htm">Clean</a> <a href="/ezekiel/16-44.htm">Common</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/12-8.htm">Difference</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-18.htm">Discern</a> <a href="/leviticus/20-25.htm">Distinction</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-16.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/jeremiah/43-10.htm">Hid</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-8.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/ezekiel/7-26.htm">Law</a> <a href="/ezekiel/7-26.htm">Priests</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-16.htm">Profane</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-16.htm">Profaned</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-8.htm">Sabbaths</a> <a href="/ezekiel/20-11.htm">Shewed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-15.htm">Unclean</a> <a href="/jeremiah/34-18.htm">Violated</a> <a href="/ezekiel/18-18.htm">Violence</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezekiel/23-37.htm">Caused</a> <a href="/ezekiel/24-13.htm">Clean</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-42.htm">Common</a> <a href="/ezekiel/44-23.htm">Difference</a> <a href="/ezekiel/44-23.htm">Discern</a> <a href="/malachi/3-18.htm">Distinction</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-16.htm">Eyes</a> <a href="/ezekiel/31-8.htm">Hid</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-38.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/ezekiel/43-12.htm">Law</a> <a href="/ezekiel/40-45.htm">Priests</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-39.htm">Profane</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-38.htm">Profaned</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-38.htm">Sabbaths</a> <a href="/amos/7-1.htm">Shewed</a> <a href="/ezekiel/23-7.htm">Unclean</a> <a href="/daniel/11-32.htm">Violated</a> <a href="/ezekiel/28-16.htm">Violence</a><div class="vheading2">Ezekiel 22</div>1. <a href="/ezekiel/22-1.htm">A catalogue of sins in Jerusalem, and the dispersion of the Jews in consequence</a> 17. <a href="/ezekiel/22-17.htm">God will burn them as dross in his furnace</a> 23. <a href="/ezekiel/22-23.htm">The general corruption of prophets, priests, princes, and the people</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The priests, who were meant to be the spiritual leaders and guardians of the law, are accused of violating it. This phrase highlights the corruption and failure of the religious leaders in Jerusalem. The term "violence" suggests a deliberate and forceful breach of God's commandments, indicating a deep moral and spiritual decay. The priests' actions are a direct affront to the holiness of God, as they were entrusted with maintaining the sanctity of worship and the temple. This echoes the broader theme in Ezekiel of Israel's leaders failing in their duties, similar to the rebukes found in <a href="/jeremiah/2-8.htm">Jeremiah 2:8</a> and <a href="/malachi/2-7.htm">Malachi 2:7-8</a>.They make no distinction between the holy and the common, The priests' failure to differentiate between what is sacred and what is ordinary undermines the very foundation of Israel's covenant relationship with God. This distinction was crucial in maintaining the purity of worship and the community's identity as God's chosen people. <a href="/leviticus/10-10.htm">Leviticus 10:10</a> emphasizes the importance of distinguishing between holy and common, clean and unclean, as part of the priestly duty. The blurring of these lines leads to a loss of reverence for God and His commandments, reflecting a broader cultural and spiritual decline.and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. This phrase refers to the ritual purity laws outlined in Leviticus, which were essential for maintaining the community's holiness. The priests' neglect in teaching and upholding these laws results in a community that is spiritually defiled. The distinction between clean and unclean was not merely ceremonial but was intended to teach Israel about the nature of sin and the need for holiness. This failure is indicative of a deeper spiritual blindness and rebellion against God's established order.They disregard My Sabbaths, The Sabbath was a sign of the covenant between God and Israel (<a href="/exodus/31-13.htm">Exodus 31:13</a>). By disregarding the Sabbaths, the priests and people show contempt for God's covenant and His authority. The Sabbath was meant to be a day of rest and worship, a reminder of God's creation and deliverance. <a href="/nehemiah/13-17.htm">Nehemiah 13:17-18</a> also addresses the issue of Sabbath desecration, highlighting its importance in maintaining a right relationship with God. The neglect of the Sabbath is symptomatic of a broader spiritual apathy and rebellion.so that I am profaned among them. The result of the priests' actions is that God's name and reputation are dishonored among His people. This profaning of God's name is a serious offense, as it reflects a failure to uphold His holiness and glory. The priests' failure to lead and teach the people according to God's standards results in a community that does not reflect God's character. This theme of God's name being profaned is also found in <a href="/ezekiel/36-20.htm">Ezekiel 36:20-23</a>, where God promises to restore His holy name among the nations. The ultimate fulfillment of God's holiness and the restoration of His name is found in Jesus Christ, who perfectly embodies and reveals God's character to the world.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/e/ezekiel.htm">Ezekiel</a> A prophet during the Babylonian exile, tasked with delivering God's messages to the Israelites, often focusing on their sins and the need for repentance. 2. <a href="/topical/p/priests.htm">Priests</a> Religious leaders in Israel responsible for teaching the law and maintaining the sanctity of worship and religious practices. 3. <a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a> The nation chosen by God, often depicted in the Old Testament as struggling with faithfulness to God's commandments. 4. <a href="/topical/s/sabbaths.htm">Sabbaths</a> Holy days set apart by God for rest and worship, symbolizing the covenant between God and Israel. 5. <a href="/topical/t/the_law.htm">The Law</a> Refers to the commandments and instructions given by God to the Israelites, primarily through Moses, to guide their moral and spiritual conduct.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_role_of_spiritual_leaders.htm">The Role of Spiritual Leaders</a> Spiritual leaders are called to uphold and teach God's standards. When they fail, it leads to widespread spiritual decay. <a href="/topical/d/distinguishing_the_holy_from_the_common.htm">Distinguishing the Holy from the Common</a> Believers are called to discern and respect what God has set apart as holy, maintaining a clear distinction in their lives. <a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_the_sabbath.htm">The Importance of the Sabbath</a> Observing the Sabbath is a sign of obedience and reverence for God, reminding us of His creation and covenant. <a href="/topical/c/consequences_of_neglecting_god's_law.htm">Consequences of Neglecting God's Law</a> Ignoring God's commandments leads to His name being profaned and can result in judgment. <a href="/topical/p/personal_responsibility.htm">Personal Responsibility</a> While leaders have a significant role, each believer is responsible for knowing and living by God's standards.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_ezekiel_22.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Ezekiel 22</a> <a href="/q/does_ezekiel_22_26_conflict_with_strict_laws.htm">Does the failure of priests to differentiate between the holy and profane in Ezekiel 22:26 conflict with other passages that claim Israel kept strict religious laws? </a> <a href="/q/why_do_gospel_trial_accounts_contradict_law.htm">Why do the Gospel accounts of Jesus' trial contradict Jewish and Roman legal procedures?</a> <a href="/q/why_call_evil_good_and_good_evil.htm">Why label evil as good and good as evil?</a> <a href="/q/what_are_the_bible's_ancient_paths.htm">What are the ancient paths mentioned in the Bible?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/ezekiel/22.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(26) Have violated my law.--The next class to be spoken of, as the next in influence, were the priests. It was their especial office to observe and to teach the distinction between the holy and the unholy (<a href="/leviticus/10-10.htm" title="And that you may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;">Leviticus 10:10</a>), and to care for the Sabbath. In all they had been unfaithful. (Comp. <a href="/micah/3-11.htm" title="The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean on the LORD, and say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come on us.">Micah 3:11</a>; <a href="/zephaniah/3-4.htm" title="Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.">Zephaniah 3:4</a>.)<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/ezekiel/22.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 26. - The sins of the prophets are followed by these of the priests. Their guilt was that they blurred over the distinction between the holy and the profane (Revised Version, "common"), between the clean and the unclean (comp. <a href="/ezekiel/44-23.htm">Ezekiel 44:23</a>; <a href="/leviticus/10-10.htm">Leviticus 10:10</a>, where the same terms are used), in what we have learnt to call the positive and ceremonial ordinances of the Law, and so blunted their keenness of perception in regard to analogous moral distinctions. Extremes meet, and in our Lord's time the same result was brought about by an exaggerated scrupulosity about the very things the neglect of which was, in Ezekiel's time, the root of the evils which he condemns. This was true generally, conspicuously true in the case of the sabbath. Its neglect was a crying evil in Ezekiel's time, just as its exaggeration was in the later development of Judaism. Though in itself positive rather than moral, to hide the eyes from its holiness was, for these to whom the commandment had been given, an act of immorality. <a href="/commentaries/ezekiel/22-26.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>Her priests כֹּהֲנֶ֜יהָ (kō·hă·ne·hā) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3548.htm">Strong's 3548: </a> Priest do violence to חָמְס֣וּ (ḥā·mə·sū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2554.htm">Strong's 2554: </a> To treat violently or wrong My law תוֹרָתִי֮ (ṯō·w·rā·ṯî) Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8451.htm">Strong's 8451: </a> Direction, instruction, law and profane וַיְחַלְּל֣וּ (way·ḥal·lə·lū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2490.htm">Strong's 2490: </a> To bore, to wound, to dissolve, to profane, to break, to begin, to play My holy things. קָדָשַׁי֒ (qā·ḏā·šay) Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6944.htm">Strong's 6944: </a> A sacred place, thing, sanctity They make no לֹ֣א (lō) Adverb - Negative particle <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> Not, no distinction הִבְדִּ֔ילוּ (hiḇ·dî·lū) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_914.htm">Strong's 914: </a> To be divided, separate between בֵּֽין־ (bên-) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_996.htm">Strong's 996: </a> An interval, space between the holy קֹ֤דֶשׁ (qō·ḏeš) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6944.htm">Strong's 6944: </a> A sacred place, thing, sanctity and the common, לְחֹל֙ (lə·ḥōl) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2455.htm">Strong's 2455: </a> Profaneness, commonness and they fail לֹ֣א (lō) Adverb - Negative particle <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> Not, no to distinguish הוֹדִ֑יעוּ (hō·w·ḏî·‘ū) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3045.htm">Strong's 3045: </a> To know between וּבֵין־ (ū·ḇên-) Conjunctive waw | Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_996.htm">Strong's 996: </a> An interval, space between the clean לְטָה֖וֹר (lə·ṭā·hō·wr) Preposition-l | Adjective - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2889.htm">Strong's 2889: </a> Clean, pure and the unclean. הַטָּמֵ֥א (haṭ·ṭā·mê) Article | Adjective - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2931.htm">Strong's 2931: </a> Unclean They disregard הֶעְלִ֣ימוּ (he‘·lî·mū) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5956.htm">Strong's 5956: </a> To veil from sight, conceal My Sabbaths, וּמִשַׁבְּתוֹתַי֙ (ū·mi·šab·bə·ṯō·w·ṯay) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - common plural construct | first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7676.htm">Strong's 7676: </a> Intermission, the Sabbath so that I am profaned וָאֵחַ֖ל (wā·’ê·ḥal) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2490.htm">Strong's 2490: </a> To bore, to wound, to dissolve, to profane, to break, to begin, to play among them. בְּתוֹכָֽם׃ (bə·ṯō·w·ḵām) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8432.htm">Strong's 8432: </a> A bisection, the centre <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/ezekiel/22-26.htm">Ezekiel 22:26 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/ezekiel/22-26.htm">Ezekiel 22:26 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/ezekiel/22-26.htm">Ezekiel 22:26 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/ezekiel/22-26.htm">Ezekiel 22:26 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/ezekiel/22-26.htm">Ezekiel 22:26 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/ezekiel/22-26.htm">Ezekiel 22:26 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/ezekiel/22-26.htm">Ezekiel 22:26 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/ezekiel/22-26.htm">Ezekiel 22:26 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/ezekiel/22-26.htm">Ezekiel 22:26 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/ezekiel/22-26.htm">Ezekiel 22:26 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/ezekiel/22-26.htm">OT Prophets: Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests have done violence to my (Ezek. 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