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Ezekiel 22:8
You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Ezekiel speaks to the rebellious house of Israel within their city walls, pronouncing judgment during a period of widespread social and religious corruption.
The words — The Hebrew verb בָּזִית (ba.Zit) means "you have despised," applied directly to God's holy things, while חִלַּלְתָּ (chi.La.Ta) literally means "you have profaned" or treated the Sabbaths as common.
The thread — This identical charge appears in Ezekiel 23:38, which records the same simultaneous defilement of sanctuary and Sabbath, and echoes Ezekiel 22:26, where priests fail to separate holy from common.
Why it lands — The passage establishes that religious observance is invalidated by contempt for divine boundaries, requiring the reader to abandon ritual practice until systemic exploitation and sacred disregard cease.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 23:38 They have also done this to Me: On that very same day, they defiled My sanctuary and profaned My Sabbaths.
- Ezekiel 20:13 Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.
- Ezekiel 22:26 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.
- Ezekiel 20:21 But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
- Ezekiel 20:24 For they did not practice My ordinances, but they rejected My statutes and profaned My Sabbaths, fixing their eyes on the idols of their fathers.
- Leviticus 19:30 You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
- Amos 8:4 Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
- Malachi 1:6 “A son honors his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is My honor? And if I am a master, where is your fear of Me?” says the LORD of Hosts to you priests who despise My name. “But you ask, ‘How have we despised Your name?’
- Malachi 1:12 “But you profane it when you say, ‘The table of the Lord is defiled, and as for its fruit, its food is contemptible.’