8 Then he brought all the priests from the cities of Judah, that he might make unfit for worship the high places where the priests had made sacrificial smoke, from Geʹba+ as far as Beʹer-sheʹba;+ and he pulled down the high places of the gates* that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua, the chief of the city, which was at the left as a person came into* the gate of the city.

5 And he proceeded to say to them: “Listen to me, YOU Levites. Now sanctify+ yourselves and sanctify the house of Jehovah the God of YOUR forefathers, and bring the impure thing out from the holy place.+

34 As for our kings, our princes, our priests and our forefathers,+ they have not performed your law,+ nor paid attention to your commandments+ or to your testimonies* with which you bore witness+ against them.

11 “For both the prophet and the priest themselves have become polluted.+ Also in my own house I have found their badness,”+ is the utterance of Jehovah.

12 And he proceeded to say to me: “Have you seen, O son of man, what the elderly ones of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness,+ each one in the inner rooms of his showpiece? For they are saying, ‘Jehovah is not seeing us.*+ Jehovah has left the land.’”*