Ezekiel 23:38
New International Version
They have also done this to me: At that same time they defiled my sanctuary and desecrated my Sabbaths.

New Living Translation
Furthermore, they have defiled my Temple and violated my Sabbath day!

English Standard Version
Moreover, this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and profaned my Sabbaths.

Berean Standard Bible
They have also done this to Me: On that very same day, they defiled My sanctuary and profaned My Sabbaths.

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

New King James Version
Moreover they have done this to Me: They have defiled My sanctuary on the same day and profaned My Sabbaths.

New American Standard Bible
Again, they have done this to Me: they have defiled My sanctuary on the same day, and have profaned My Sabbaths.

NASB 1995
“Again, they have done this to Me: they have defiled My sanctuary on the same day and have profaned My sabbaths.

NASB 1977
“Again, they have done this to Me: they have defiled My sanctuary on the same day and have profaned My sabbaths.

Legacy Standard Bible
Again, they have done this to Me: they have defiled My sanctuary on the same day and have profaned My sabbaths.

Amplified Bible
Moreover, they have done this to Me: they have defiled My sanctuary on the same day [of their idolatries] and have profaned My Sabbaths.

Christian Standard Bible
They also did this to me: they defiled my sanctuary on that same day and profaned my Sabbaths.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They also did this to Me: they defiled My sanctuary on that same day and profaned My Sabbaths.

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They have also done this to me: They have polluted my holy places when they do these things and dishonored the days to worship me.

Good News Translation
And that is not all they did. They profaned my Temple and broke the Sabbath, which I had established.

International Standard Version
"They've also done this to me: They defiled my sanctuary and profaned my Sabbaths, all at the same time!

Majority Standard Bible
They have also done this to Me: On that very same day, they defiled My sanctuary and profaned My Sabbaths.

NET Bible
Moreover, they have done this to me: In the very same day they desecrated my sanctuary and profaned my Sabbaths.

New Heart English Bible
Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

Webster's Bible Translation
Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

World English Bible
Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Again, they have done this to Me, "" They defiled My sanctuary in that day, "" And they have defiled My Sabbaths.

Young's Literal Translation
Again, this they have done to Me, They defiled My sanctuary in that day, And My sabbaths they have polluted.

Smith's Literal Translation
Yet this they did to me: they defiled my holy place in that day, and my Sabbaths they profaned.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Yea, and they have done this to me. They polluted my sanctuary on the same day, and profaned my sabbaths.

Catholic Public Domain Version
But they have done even this to me: They have defiled my sanctuary on the same day, and they have profaned my Sabbaths.

New American Bible
And they also did this to me: on that day, they defiled my sanctuary and desecrated my sabbaths.

New Revised Standard Version
Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary on the same day and profaned my sabbaths.
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day and have profaned my sabbaths;

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And this is the other thing that they did to me: they defiled my holy place in that day and my Sabbaths they have defiled
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Moreover this they have done unto Me: they have defiled My sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned My sabbaths.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
So long too as they did these things to me, they defiled my sanctuary, and profaned my sabbaths.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Judgment on Both Sisters
37For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food for their idols. 38They have also done this to Me: On that very same day, they defiled My sanctuary and profaned My Sabbaths. 39On the very day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary to profane it. Yes, they did this inside My house.…

Cross References
Jeremiah 7:9-10
Will you steal and murder, commit adultery and perjury, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known, / and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?

2 Kings 21:4-5
Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.” / In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.

2 Chronicles 33:4-5
Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “My Name will remain in Jerusalem forever.” / In both courtyards of the house of the LORD, he built altars to all the host of heaven.

Isaiah 1:13-15
Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations—I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly. / I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them. / When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

Jeremiah 32:34-35
They have placed their abominations in the house that bears My Name, and so have defiled it. / They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Ben-hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech—something I never commanded them, nor had it ever entered My mind, that they should commit such an abomination and cause Judah to sin.

2 Kings 23:12
He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

Leviticus 18:21
You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.

Jeremiah 19:4-5
because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. / They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.

1 Corinthians 10:21
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.

2 Corinthians 6:16-17
What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.” / “Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”

Ezekiel 8:16
So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were bowing to the east in worship of the sun.

Ezekiel 20:39
And as for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you. But afterward, you will surely listen to Me, and you will no longer defile My holy name with your gifts and idols.

Hosea 4:13-14
They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery. / I will not punish your daughters when they prostitute themselves, nor your daughters-in-law when they commit adultery. For the men themselves go off with prostitutes and offer sacrifices with shrine prostitutes. So a people without understanding will come to ruin.

Zephaniah 1:5-6
those who bow on the rooftops to worship the host of heaven, those who bow down and swear by the LORD but also swear by Milcom, / and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”

Matthew 21:12-13
Then Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves. / And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”


Treasury of Scripture

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

they have

Ezekiel 7:20
As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.

Ezekiel 8:5-16
Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry…

2 Kings 21:4,7
And he built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name…

and have

Ezekiel 20:13,24
But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them…

Ezekiel 22:8
Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.

Nehemiah 13:17,18
Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day? …

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Ezekiel 23
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23. Aholibah is to be plagued by her lovers
36. The prophet reproves the adulteries of them both
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They have also done this to Me
This phrase underscores the personal nature of the offense against God. The Hebrew root for "done" is עָשָׂה (asah), which means to act or to do. It implies deliberate action, highlighting the intentional rebellion of the people. The phrase "to Me" emphasizes that the sin is not just against a set of rules but is a direct affront to God Himself. This personal affront is significant in the context of a covenant relationship, where God is not just a distant deity but a personal God who has entered into a binding agreement with His people.

On that very same day
This phrase indicates the immediacy and the audacity of the people's actions. The Hebrew word for "day" is יוֹם (yom), which can mean a literal day or a period of time. Here, it underscores the idea that the people's defilement and profanation were not isolated incidents but were part of a pattern of behavior. The phrase suggests a willful disregard for the sanctity of time set apart for God, reflecting a deeper spiritual malaise.

they defiled My sanctuary
The word "defiled" comes from the Hebrew טָמֵא (tame), meaning to make unclean or impure. The sanctuary, or מִקְדָּשׁ (miqdash), was the holy place where God's presence dwelled among His people. To defile the sanctuary was to desecrate the very place that symbolized God's holiness and His covenant with Israel. This act of defilement represents a profound disrespect for God's holiness and a breach of the covenant relationship.

and profaned My Sabbaths
The term "profaned" is derived from the Hebrew חָלַל (chalal), which means to pollute or desecrate. The Sabbath, or שַׁבָּת (shabbat), was a sign of the covenant between God and Israel, a day set apart for rest and worship. By profaning the Sabbaths, the people were not only breaking a commandment but were also rejecting the rhythm of life that God had ordained for them. This act of profanation reflects a deeper spiritual rebellion, as the Sabbath was a reminder of God's creation and His deliverance of Israel from Egypt.

(38) In the same day.--This is explained more fully in Ezekiel 23:39. Emphasis is laid upon the fact that they worshipped in the sanctuary of Jehovah in the same day that they offered their children to their idols, because the passing directly from the one to the other showed an utter disregard of the commands of the Lord, and an entire want of appreciation of His character and holiness. The figure in this and the following verses is partly dropped to bring out better the reality.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
They have also
ע֥וֹד (‘ō·wḏ)
Adverb
Strong's 5750: Iteration, continuance, again, repeatedly, still, more

done
עָ֣שׂוּ (‘ā·śū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 6213: To do, make

to Me
לִ֑י (lî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew

this:
זֹ֖את (zōṯ)
Pronoun - feminine singular
Strong's 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that,

On that very same
הַה֔וּא (ha·hū)
Article | Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

day
בַּיּ֣וֹם (bay·yō·wm)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

they defiled
טִמְּא֤וּ (ṭim·mə·’ū)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2930: To be or become unclean

My sanctuary
מִקְדָּשִׁי֙ (miq·dā·šî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4720: A consecrated thing, place, a palace, sanctuary, asylum

and profaned
חִלֵּֽלוּ׃ (ḥil·lê·lū)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2490: To bore, to wound, to dissolve, to profane, to break, to begin, to play

My Sabbaths.
שַׁבְּתוֹתַ֖י (šab·bə·ṯō·w·ṯay)
Noun - common plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 7676: Intermission, the Sabbath


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