Ezekiel 44:20

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 44:20

Neither shall they , &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 21:5 ). App-92 . only poll = surely clip. read more

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 44:20

Ezekiel 44:20. Neither shall they shave, &c.— The Jews understand this as an expression of mourning for the dead. The words in the original contain a general prohibition, including the times of mourning, as well as other seasons. St. Jerome supposes, that the Jewish priests were forbidden to shave their heads, in order to distinguish them from several of the heathen priests; particularly the Egyptian priests of Isis and Serapis, who had their heads shaved and uncovered, see Calmet, and... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 44:20

20. Neither . . . shave . . . heads—as mourners do ( :-). The worshippers of the Egyptian idols Serapis and Isis shaved their heads; another reason why Jehovah's priests are not to do so. nor suffer . . . locks to grow long—as the luxurious, barbarians, and soldiers in warfare did [JEROME]. read more

Thomas Constable

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

The Zadokite priests 44:15-31 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 44:19-20

When the priests went into the outer court they would first have to change their clothes in the rooms designated for that purpose (Ezekiel 42:1-14) so they would not transmit what was holy to what was common (cf. Leviticus 6:11). Contact with holy things consecrated those things and brought them under the restrictions governing holy things (cf. Exodus 29:37; Exodus 30:29; Leviticus 6:27; Haggai 2:12). They were also to keep their hair trimmed, not let it grow long or shave it all off. Long hair... 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

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ezekiel 44:20

(20) Their locks to grow long.—The law forbade the shaving of the head (Leviticus 21:5), but only condemned letting the hair grow long by implication, providing for it in the exceptional case of the vow of the Nazarite. The prohibition of Ezekiel 44:21 is given in Leviticus 10:9. 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

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