Ezekiel - 23:38



38 Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

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Explanation and meaning of Ezekiel 23:38.

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Yea, and they have done this to me. They polluted my sanctuary on the same day, and profaned my sabbaths.
Again, this they have done to Me, They defiled My sanctuary in that day, And My sabbaths they have polluted.
Further, this is what she has done to me: she has made my holy place unclean and has made my Sabbaths unclean.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

The same day - The day when they made their offerings. See Ezekiel 23:39.

They have defiled my sanctuary - By placing idols there.

Moreover this they have done unto me,..... The following piece of wickedness, which was very provoking to the Lord:
they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day; as they caused their children to pass through the tire to their idols, by entering into the sanctuary when they had so done, and were thus defiled, and by offering sacrifices to their idols in it; or under pretence of serving the Lord, when they had just been guilty of murder and idolatry:
and have profaned my sabbaths; not only by doing their own worldly and civil business, but by slaying their infants on those days, and sacrificing them to idols.

the same day--On the very day that they had burned their children to Molech in the valley of Gehenna, they shamelessly and hypocritically presented themselves as worshippers in Jehovah's temple (Jeremiah 7:9-10).

In the same day - When they had newly polluted themselves with idolatry and murder, they thrust into the temple.

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