Ezekiel 44:10
But as for the Levites, who went far from me, when Israel went out of the right way, turning away from me to go after their images; their punishment will come on them.
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Ezekiel 44:10
But as for the Levites, who went far from me, when Israel went out of the right way, turning away from me to go after their images; their punishment will come on them.
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Ezekiel 44:9
For this cause the Lord has said, No man from a strange land, without circumcision of heart and flesh, of all those who are living among the children of Israel, is to come into my holy place.
Ezekiel 44:10
But as for the Levites, who went far from me, when Israel went out of the right way, turning away from me to go after their images; their punishment will come on them.
Ezekiel 44:11
But they may be caretakers in my holy place, and overseers at the doors of the house, doing the work of the house: they will put to death the burned offering and the beasts offered for the people, and they will take their place before them as their servants.
Ezekiel 44:12
Because they did this work for them before their images, and became a cause of sin to the children of Israel; for this cause my hand has been lifted up against them, says the Lord, and their punishment will be on them.
Ezekiel 44:13
And they will not come near me to do the work of priests to me, or come near any of my holy things, or the things which are most holy: but their shame will be on them, and the punishment for the disgusting things which they have done.
Ezekiel 44:14
But I will make them responsible for the care of the house and all its work and everything which is done in it.
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2 Kings 23:8
And he made all the priests from the towns of Judah come into Jerusalem, and he made unclean the high places where the priests had been burning offerings, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he had the high places of the evil spirits pulled down which were by the doorway of Joshua, the ruler of the town, on the left side of the way into the town.
2 Kings 23:9
Still the priests of the high places never came up to the altar of the Lord in Jerusalem; but they took their food of unleavened bread among their brothers.
Malachi 2:8
But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.
Nehemiah 9:34
And our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or given attention to your orders and your witness, with which you gave witness against them.
Jeremiah 23:11
For the prophet as well as the priest is unclean; even in my house I have seen their evil-doing, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have been acting violently against my law; they have made my holy things unclean: they have made no division between what is holy and what is common, and they have not made it clear that the unclean is different from the clean, and their eyes have been shut to my Sabbaths, and I am not honoured among them.
2 Chronicles 29:4
And he sent for the priests and the Levites, and got them together in the wide place on the east side,
2 Chronicles 29:5
And said to them, Give ear to me, O Levites: now make yourselves holy, and make holy the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and take away everything unclean from the holy place.
Zephaniah 3:4
Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.
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1 Samuel 2:36
Then it will be that the rest of your family, anyone who has not been cut off, will go down on his knees to him for a bit of silver or a bit of bread, and say, Be pleased to put me into one of the priest's places so that I may have a little food.
Ezekiel 44:15
But as for the priests, the sons of Zadok, who took care of my holy place when the children of Israel were turned away from me, they are to come near me to do my work, they will take their places before me, offering to me the fat and the blood, says the Lord;
Ezekiel 48:11
For the priests who have been made holy, those of the sons of Zadok who kept the orders I gave them, who did not go out of the right way when the children of Israel went from the way, as the Levites did,
Ezekiel 43:19
You are to give to the priests, the Levites of the seed of Zadok, who come near to me, says the Lord God, to do my work, a young ox for a sin-offering.
1 Kings 2:27
So Solomon let Abiathar be priest no longer, so that he might make the word of the Lord come true which he said about the sons of Eli in Shiloh.
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Leviticus 19:8
And as for anyone who takes it for food, his sin will be on him, for he has put shame on the holy thing of the Lord: he will be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 7:18
And if any of the flesh of the peace-offering is taken as food on the third day, it will not be pleasing to God and will not be put to the account of him who gives it; it will be unclean and a cause of sin to him who takes it as food.
Leviticus 17:16
But if his clothing is not washed and his body bathed, his sin will be on him.
Leviticus 20:19
And you may not have sex connection with your mother's sister or your father's sister, for they are his near relations: their sin will be on them.
Numbers 5:6
Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman does any of the sins of men, going against the word of the Lord, and is in the wrong;
Numbers 15:31
Because he had no respect for the word of the Lord, and did not keep his law, that man will be cut off without mercy and his sin will be on him.
Numbers 30:15
But if at some time after hearing of them, he makes them without force, then he is responsible for her wrongdoing.
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Psalms 58:3
The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.
Jeremiah 2:5
These are the words of the Lord: What evil have your fathers seen in me that they have gone far from me, and, walking after what is false, have become false?
Ezekiel 14:5
So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods.
Matthew 15:8
These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Ephesians 2:12
That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.
Ephesians 4:18
Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;
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