8And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.
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Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them, …
But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have not kept it.
I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-9)This is much to the same purport with what we had in the beginning of Ezek. 43:1-31 As the prophet must look again upon what he had before seen, so he must be told again what he had before heard. Here, as before, he sees the house filled with the glory of the Lord , which strikes an awe upon him, so that he falls prostrate at the sight, the humblest posture of adoration and the expression of a hol…
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