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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 44:23-24

Among the priests' official duties four things are prescribed. 4. The hallowing of Jehovah ' s sabbaths . This they should do both by resting on the seventh day and by offering the sabbath sacrifices, the showbread, and the burnt offering; both of which things the priests under the Law had been commanded to do (see Exodus 20:8-11 ; Exodus 31:13-17 : Le Exodus 23:3 ; Exodus 24:8 ; Numbers 28:9 ), but had not done ( Ezekiel 20:12 , Ezekiel 20:13 , Ezekiel 20:20 , ... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 44:17-31

Regulations as to the priests’ services. The garments of the priests are defined and various rules prescribed in the Law are repeated with some additions in order to denote additional care to avoid uncleanness.Ezekiel 44:18The material of which the four vestments of the ordinary priest were made was “linen,” or, more accurately, “byssus,” the cotton stuff of Egypt. The two special qualities of the byssus - white and shining - are characteristic, and on them part of the symbolic meaning... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 44:21-23

Ezekiel 44:21-23. Neither shall any priest drink wine when they enter into the inner court That is, during the time of their ministration: see the note on Leviticus 10:9-10, from whence this law is taken, and where the reason of it is given. Neither shall they take for their wives a widow This law we find Leviticus 21:13-14; but it there concerns only the high-priest, here it is applied to all the priests in general. And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 44:1-31

Service in the temple (44:1-31)Because the glory of God had entered the temple through the east gate of the outer court, no human being was considered worthy to enter by this gate. It therefore had always to be kept shut (44:1-2). The king, however, could eat his sacrificial meal in the vestibule that was on the inside of the east gate. He had to enter the temple compound by either the north or the south gate, then enter the vestibule from the courtyard side (3).The presence of God’s glory in... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 44:22

Neither shall they , &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 21:14 ). App-92 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 44:23

And they shall teach , &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 10:11 ). App-92 . profane = common. them. The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version reads "men". read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 44:23

Ezekiel 44:23. And cause them to discern— And declare to them what is the difference. Houbigant. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 44:21-22

Moreover the priests were not to drink wine before they came into the inner court (cf. Leviticus 10:9), nor were they to marry a widow or a divorced woman. They could only marry virgin Israelite women or the widows of former priests. Under the Mosaic system these marrying restrictions bound only the high priest (cf. Leviticus 21:7; Leviticus 21:14), but under the millennial system they will apply to all Zadokite priests. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 44:23

Part of the priests’ job would be to teach the people the difference between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean. The people would learn this difference as they observed the distinctions prescribed here and as the priests explained them to them (cf. Ezekiel 22:26; Leviticus 10:10-11; Leviticus 11:47; Deuteronomy 33:10)."The priests were by their lives to be examples of separateness; their ritual holiness was intended to promote ethical holiness among the people they... read more

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