Ezekiel 44:8

44:8 You have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have assigned foreigners ¹  to keep charge of my sanctuary for you.

Ezekiel 44:15-16

The Levitical Priests

44:15 “‘But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok ²  who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, will approach me to minister to me; they will stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the sovereign Lord. 44:16 They will enter my sanctuary, and approach my table to minister to me; they will keep my charge.

[44:8]  ¹ tc Instead of an energic nun (ן), the text may have read a third masculine plural suffix ם (mem), “them,” which was confused with ן (nun) in the old script. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:621.

[44:15]  ² sn Zadok was a descendant of Aaron through Eleazar (1 Chr 6:50-53), who served as a priest during David’s reign (2 Sam 8:17).