Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 44:8
And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
8. ye have set keepers ] Some would read: ye have set them keepers. This of course is the meaning. The change is hardly supported by LXX (as Well. p. 122).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
You have not observed the laws I gave you for the careful and exact keeping of my holy things; house, sacrifices, and worship. You have substituted others in your rooms, made officials, and surrogates, and curates to look to the gates, and these have let in the profane and unclean; your pride, or covetousness, or laziness, hath taken you off from your duty and your charge; or you have, as you saw good, consecrated persons, whether fit or unfit, whether approved or not approved by me. So you have profaned my name, and violated my law, Num 18:4.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
8. keepers . . . for yourselvessuchas you yourselves thought fit, not such as I approve of. Or else, “Yehave not yourselves kept the charge of My holy things, buthave set others as keepers of My charge in My sanctuary foryourselves” [MAURER].
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things,…. That is, have not kept and retained the holy doctrines of the Gospel; nor observed the holy ordinances of it, as they were first delivered:
but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves; meaning either, that such as were in public office did not attend to it; but were idol shepherds, and left the flock, their care and charge, to others, to surrogates and curates, to do their work for them; while they indulged themselves in sloth and idleness: or that the members and hearers set up preachers for themselves, according to their lusts, agreeable to their own carnal sentiments, without any regard to the will and glory of God.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(8) For yourselves.Comp. 1Ki. 12:31.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Eze 44:8. But ye have set keepers And you make those who minister in my sanctuary, your own ministers. Houbigant.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Eze 44:8 And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
Ver. 8. For yourselves. ] Pro vestro arbitratu, non pro mea voluntate; as best suited with your own ends, and fitted to your own humours.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
ye have not kept, &c. See Eze 40:46, &c.
holy. See note on Exo 3:5.
yourselves: i.e. your own pleasure.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
ye have not: Lev 22:2-33, Num 18:3-5, Act 7:53, 1Ti 6:13, 2Ti 4:1
charge: or, ward, or ordinance, and so Eze 44:14, Eze 44:16, Eze 40:45, Eze 40:46, 1Ch 23:32, Ezr 8:24-30
Reciprocal: Num 3:10 – they shall Num 8:26 – to keep Num 9:23 – they kept 2Ch 13:11 – we keep Zep 3:4 – her priests Zec 3:7 – if thou wilt keep
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 44:8. According to chapter 40: 45 the priests were the lawful keepers of the holy place. But these men had put others in their place, men who were not qualified either officially or morally for the holy work.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
44:8 And ye have not kept the {c} charge of my holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
(c) You have not offered to me according to my Law.