Ezekiel 44:22

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 44:17-31

God's priests must be regulars, not seculars; and therefore here are rules laid down for them to govern themselves by and due encouragement given them to live up to those rules. Directions are here given, I. Concerning their clothes; they must wear linen garments when they went in to minister or do any service in the inner court, or in the sanctuary, and nothing that was woollen, because it would cause sweat, Ezek. 44:17, 18. They must dress themselves cool, that they might go the more readily... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 44:22

Neither shall they take for their wives a widow ,.... Who has been not only another man's, but at her own will, and done her own pleasure, and been her own mistress, and so not easily brought into subjection, and to behave as becoming her station: or her that is put away ; or, "thrust forth" F17 גדושה "expulsam", Montanus, Heb; "ejectam", Piscator. ; out of doors; whose husband has given her a bill of divorce; since she may be suspected of having done some ill thing: but they... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 44:22

Neither shall they take for their wives a widow - This was prohibited to the high priest only, by Moses, Leviticus 21:13 , Leviticus 21:14 . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 44:1-31

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 44:17-31

The duties and emoluments of the priests . read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 44:17-31

A good minister of Jesus Christ. What the faithful priest was under the Law, that the "good minister" is under Christ ( 1 Timothy 4:6 ). And while the form of service is altogether different, the spirit should be the same. The ideal priest, as here delineated, is, mutatis mutandis , the true bishop or pastor of the New Testament. The latter is— I. STUDIOUS OF HIS MASTER 'S WILL , EVEN IN SMALL PARTICULARS . The priest was to carry out very minute instructions... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 44:22

As to marriage (since the priests in Ezekiel's "house" were no more expected to be celibates than were those employed about Moses' tabernacle or Solomon's temple), they were forbidden to marry widows (which the Levitical priests were not, though the high priest was) or divorced women, and allowed to wed only virgins of the house of Israel, or (the sole exception) widows of such as had been priests (compare with the priest-code, Le Ezekiel 21:7 , Ezekiel 21:13 , Ezekiel 21:14 ). Ezekiel's... 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

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