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Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 44:17-18

Ritual Requirements For The Sons of Zadok. “And it shall be that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they will be clothed with linen garments, and no wool shall come on them while they minister inside the gates of the inner court, and within. They shall have linen turbans on their heads and shall have linen breeches on their loins. They shall not wear anything that causes sweat.” These restrictions are similar to those placed on Aaron and his sons (Exodus 28:39; Exodus... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 44:15-27

Ezekiel 44:15-Daniel : . The Priests. ( Their duties.)— The only officials qualified to bear the name or discharge the duties of priests— especially the duty of sacrifice— are the Zadokites, i.e. the descendants of the Zadok who had been appointed head of the Jerusalem priesthood by Solomon, when Abiathar, who had sided with Adonijah, was deposed ( 1 Kings 2:35). Doubtless the Jerusalem priests were, in point of morality and religion, superior, broadly speaking, to the country priests (... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 44:17

When they enter: they must put on their priestly garments in the chambers that are appointed for vestries to them, where they put off the garments when the service was done, and where they put them on when they approached to the altar, Ezekiel 42:14. At the gates of the inner court; where the altar of burnt-offering stood, and where the temple, which is included, stood. @With linen garments; according to the law, Exodus 28:42,Exodus 28:43. No wool; the reason hereof is given in the next verse.... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ezekiel 44:1-31

THE RELATION OF PRINCE AND PRIESTS TO THE TEMPLE (Chap. 44)EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Ezekiel 44:1. “The gate of the outward sanctuary”—the court of the priests as distinguished from the Temple itself. “This gate shall be shut”—shut to the people, but opened on certain days for the prince (chap. Ezekiel 46:1), he holding the place of God in political concerns, as the priests do in spiritual. Only a prince of the House of David might sit down in the priests’ court. As a mark of respect to an Eastern... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 44:1-31

Chapter 44Now as we get to chapter 44, we come to a prophecy that is so often misinterpreted. And I must confess to you that I have often misinterpreted this prophecy. And as I read it more carefully and have read it more carefully this time, and this is one of the problems I have with this last portion of Ezekiel, that every time I read it I seem to see something else that I didn't quite understand before and my whole views have to change again.But he brought me back to the way of the gate of... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 44:1-31

Ezekiel 44:5 . Mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears. Every thing seen in this vision of the temple, adumbrates celestial glory, and therefore demanded the most profound attention. The law was a shadow of good things to come. REFLECTIONS. The substance of this chapter is much the same as the twenty first and twenty second chapters of Leviticus, under which suitable reflections will be found. But here it is of consequence to note, that the way in which the glory... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 44:17

Eze 44:17 And it shall come to pass, [that] when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. Ver. 17. They shall be clothed with linen garments. ] As so many earthly angels, Mat 28:3 Revelation 4:4 ; Rev 7:13 for innocence and victory over their corruptions. And no wool shall come upon them. ] No brutish and sensual lusts and practices shall be... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Ezekiel 44:17

they shall: Exodus 28:39, Exodus 28:40, Exodus 28:43, Exodus 39:27-Joel :, Leviticus 16:4, Revelation 4:4, Revelation 19:8 Reciprocal: Leviticus 6:10 - linen garment Ezekiel 44:27 - unto the inner Revelation 15:6 - clothed read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Ezekiel 44:17

And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.And within — In the temple. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 44:17-19

17-19. Linen garments were worn by the Hebrew priests (Exodus 28:39; Exodus 28:42; Exodus 39:27-28), as by the Egyptian ( Herodotus, 2:37), because of its cleanliness and because of its symbolization of purity. Sweat was regarded, both by the Egyptians and Hebrews, as unclean. These holy garments were to be left in the inner sanctuary (Ezekiel 42:14) lest they should touch the people who were working in the outer courts and therefore “sanctify” them that is, separate them unto God, making... read more

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