Yet I will make them performers of the duty of the house, for all its service, and for all that will be done therein.
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Yet I will make them performers of the duty of the house, for all its service, and for all that will be done therein.
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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.
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And I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 44:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Numbers 18:4 They shall be joined to you and keep the responsibility of the Tent of Meeting, for all the service of the Tent. A stranger shall not come near to you.
- 1 Chronicles 23:28-32 For their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of Yahweh’s house, in the courts, and in the rooms, and in the purifying of all holy things, even the work of the service of God’s house; for the show bread also, and for the fine flour for a meal offering, whether of unleavened wafers, or of that which is baked in the pan, or of that which is soaked, and for all measurements of quantity and size; and to stand every morning to thank and praise Yahweh, and likewise in the evening; and to offer all burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before Yahweh; and that they should keep the duty of the Tent of Meeting, the duty of the holy place, and the duty of the sons of Aaron their brothers, for the service of Yahweh’s house.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 44:14 But I will make them keepers of…
Eze 44:14 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.
Ver. 14. But I will make them keepers.] Which was one of the meanest offices.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain See Eze 44:11.
See Eze 44:11.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But I will make them keepers of the charge…
But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house,.... To be watchmen or porters in it; to open and shut the doors of it; to sweep and keep it clean; to repair and mend it, and to do such like works, as it follows:
for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein; in a servile way; but not as priests or ministers of the word.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 14. But I will make] And I will. The…
14. But I will make] And I will. The prophet as was natural to him takes a severe view of the conduct of the priests of the high-places, laying much of the blame of Israel’s defection upon them (Eze_44:12).
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