Ezekiel 23:38 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

This; which is declared in the following words, it was some great injury or affront done to God. Defiled my sanctuary; my holy things, house, altar, sacrifices, and oblations; one part of the temple put for all parts of the holy things of God. In the same day; when they had newly polluted themselves with most horrid crimes, idolatry and murder, they thrust into the temple; whereas by the law, if they had been but unclean by touch of a dead body, they must have been cleansed by sacrifices before they ought to come into company with the Jews. Profaned my sabbaths, by offering sacrifices to idols, and doing that on those days which God, nature, and all civil nations abhor, only the devil is pleased with, who is a murderer from the beginning, and promotes such bloody cruelties.

Ezekiel 23:38

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