8 Instead of carrying out your duty in regard to my holy things, you put others in charge of my sanctuary.
8 And you have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have set others to keep my charge for you in my sanctuary.
8 You haven't taken care of my holy things. You've hired out the work to foreigners who care nothing for this place, my Sanctuary.
8 And you have not kept charge of My holy things, but you have set others to keep charge of My sanctuary for you."
8 Instead of safeguarding my sacred rituals, you have hired foreigners to take charge of my sanctuary.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ezekiel 44:8
Chapter Summary
This chapter contains ordinances relative to the true priests. The prince evidently means Christ, and the words in verse 2, may remind us that no other can enter heaven, the true sanctuary, as Christ did; namely, by virtue of his own excellency, and his personal holiness, righteousness, and strength. He who is the Brightness of Jehovah's glory entered by his own holiness; but that way is shut to the whole human race, and we all must enter as sinners, by faith in his blood, and by the power of his grace.