Ezekiel 44:12

The Levites Are Excluded From The Priesthood

¹¹ Yet they will occupy My sanctuary, serving as guards at the temple gates and ministering at the temple. They will slaughter the burnt offerings and other sacrifices for the people and will stand before them to serve them. ¹² Because they ministered to the house of Israel before their idols and became a sinful stumbling block to them, therefore I swore an oath against them”—this is the declaration of the Lord God—“that they would bear the consequences of their sin. ¹³ They must not approach Me to serve Me as priests or come near any of My holy things or the most holy things. They will bear their disgrace and the consequences of the detestable acts they committed.

Bear Their Iniquity

Children of Israel

For This Cause

House of Israel

Lifted Up

Made a Vow

My People

Other Gods

Says the Lord

Stumbling Block

Declares The Lord

Israel

Jehovah

Sin

2 Kings 16:10-16

King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria. When he saw the altar that was in Damascus, King Ahaz sent a model of the altar and complete plans for its construction to Uriah the priest.

Psalm 106:26

So He raised His hand against them with an oath
that He would make them fall in the desert

Ezekiel 14:3-4

“Son of man, these men have set up idols in their hearts and have put sinful stumbling blocks before their faces. Should I be consulted by them at all?

Ezekiel 20:15

However, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land I had given them—the most beautiful of all lands, flowing with milk and honey—

Ezekiel 20:23

However, I swore to them in the wilderness that I would disperse them among the nations and scatter them among the countries.

Ezekiel 44:10

Surely the Levites who wandered away from Me when Israel went astray, and who strayed from Me after their idols, will bear the consequences of their sin.

Deuteronomy 32:40-42

I raise My hand to heaven and declare:
As surely as I live forever,

1 Samuel 2:29-30

Why, then, do all of you despise My sacrifices and offerings that I require at the place of worship? You have honored your sons more than Me, by making yourselves fat with the best part of all of the offerings of My people Israel.’

Isaiah 9:16

The leaders of the people mislead them,
and those they mislead are swallowed up.

Ezekiel 20:6

On that day I swore to them that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the most beautiful of all lands.

Ezekiel 20:28

When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices and presented their offensive offerings there. They also sent up their pleasing aromas and poured out their drink offerings there.

Ezekiel 44:13

They must not approach Me to serve Me as priests or come near any of My holy things or the most holy things. They will bear their disgrace and the consequences of the detestable acts they committed.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I will reject you from serving as My priest.
Since you have forgotten the law of your God,
I will also forget your sons.

Hosea 5:1

Hear this, priests!
Pay attention, house of Israel!
Listen, royal house!
For the judgment applies to you
because you have been a snare at Mizpah
and a net spread out on Tabor.

Amos 8:7

The Lord has sworn by the Pride of Jacob:

I will never forget all their deeds.

Malachi 2:8-9

“You, on the other hand, have turned from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have violated the covenant of Levi,” says the Lord of Hosts.

Revelation 10:5-6

Then the angel that I had seen standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven.