Ezekiel 44:16 NIV

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 44:15-16

Fidelity and its reward. We do not suppose that the statement respecting the sons of Zadok is to be pressed to historical exactitude. Their steadfastness is assumed for the purpose of exhortation, to point out the reward of fidelity in the kingdom of God. We have— I. THE FACT AND THE ACCOUNT OF UNFAITHFULNESS . There is no more patent fact before our eyes than that men do "go astray;' they go astray, like these Levites, from God, from truth, from wisdom, from purity,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 44:4-16

Admonition to the ministering priests, grounded upon former neglect.Ezekiel 44:4The north gate before the house - The north gate of the inner court. God expostulates with His people in the seat of their former idolatries Ezekiel 8:3.Ezekiel 44:5Mark well - The careful arrangements made had all been intended to keep the temple and its surroundings from profanation. Hence, attention to these particulars is enjoined.Ezekiel 44:7Strangers - This refers especially to the sin of unauthorized and... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 44:15-16

Ezekiel 44:15-16. The priests the Levites The Levites who are priests; the sons of Zadok Who continued faithful; they shall stand before me to offer the fat, &c. They shall serve at the altar of burnt-offering, and offer sacrifices thereon. They shall enter into my sanctuary Into the holy place; to minister unto me To burn incense there upon the golden altar, to sprinkle the blood of the victims before the veil, to trim the lamps, and to change the loaves on the sacred table... 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

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 44:15-16

The Levites from Zadok’s branch of the priestly family, however, would have special privileges since Zadok and his sons had served the Lord faithfully in the past (cf. Ezekiel 40:46; 1 Samuel 2:35; 2 Samuel 8:17; 2 Samuel 15:24-29; 1 Kings 2:26-35; 1 Chronicles 6:7-8). They would be able to approach the Lord Himself and minister to Him by presenting the sacrifices of the people to Him. They had permission to enter the temple proper, to place sacrifices on the "table" (the altar, Ezekiel 40:46,... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 44:15-31

The Zadokite priests 44:15-31 read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 44:1-31

§ 2. The Ordinances of the New Israel (Ezekiel 40-48)This concluding section of the book is dated in the twenty-fifth year of Ezekiel's captivity, i.e. the fourteenth year after the fall of Jerusalem (572 b.c.). It is therefore thirteen years later than the previous section (Ezekiel 33-39), and, with the exception of Ezekiel 29:17-21, forms the latest part of the book. It is in the form of a vision, which is the counterpart of that in Ezekiel 8-11. There God forsook the old Temple which had... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 44:4-31

The Priests and the LevitesStanding at the inner northern gate Ezekiel again saw the glory of God filling the Temple and was again addressed by the divine voice (Ezekiel 44:4-5). The Speaker first rebuked the custom which had prevailed in the old Temple, of having foreigners as servants in the sanctuary (Ezekiel 44:6-8). He directed that in future their place should be taken by the Lévites who were not of the family of Zadok. These had formerly shared the priestly office, but for their... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Ezekiel 44:1-31

Ezekiel 44:6 Still I delayed to scorn and leave the bliss of earthly things.... Wretched, most wretched, I had begged chastity from Thee in my early youth, crying, 'Give me chastity, only not yet'. For I feared lest Thou shouldest hear me soon, and cure me soon of the disease of concupiscence, which I wished to have satisfied rather than extinguished. Augustine, Confessions, viii. 7. Ezekiel 44:13-14 The comparison thought, that profit accrues to a life by the wise memory of its past... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 44:1-31

PRINCE AND PEOPLEEzekiel 44:1-31; Ezekiel 45:1-25; Ezekiel 46:1-24, PASSIMIT was remarked in a previous chapter that the "prince" of the closing vision appears to occupy a less exalted position than the Messianic king of chapter 34 or chapter 37. The grounds on which this impression rests require, however, to be carefully considered, if we are not to carry away a thoroughly false conception of the theocratic state foreshadowed by Ezekiel. It must not be supposed that the prince is a personage... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 44:15-16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 44:4-16

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 44:15-16

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 44:1-31

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 44:15-16

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 44:15-31

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 44:1-31

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 44:4-31

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Ezekiel 44:1-31

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 44:1-31

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