Ezekiel 44:22 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before. ”

Ezekiel 44:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Ezekiel 44:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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

Neither shall they , &c. Reference to Pentateuch ( Leviticus 21:14 ). App-92.
Ezekiel 44:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before. Neither shall they take...
Ezekiel 44:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before. No JFB commentary on...
Ezekiel 44:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Priests and the Levites Standing 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 fi...
Ezekiel 44:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

A widow that had a priest before . — In regard both to marriage and to mourning ( Ezekiel 44:25-27 ) the Levitical law made a broad distinction between the ordinary priest and the high priest. The f...
Ezekiel 44:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE PRIESTHOOD Ezekiel 44:1-31 IN the last chapter we saw how the principle of holiness through separation was exhibited in the plan of a new Temple, round which the Theocracy of the future was...
Ezekiel 44:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The next section described the service of the new Temple. It commenced with the command that the eastern gate, through which Jehovah entered, must be kept closed, and that no man should be allowed to...
Ezekiel 44:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here are very important commissions given to the Prophet to deliver to the people, all which are plain and express, and in which we find the sacred jealousy the Lord hath for his holy name and ordina...
Ezekiel 44:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 s...
Ezekiel 44:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away: but they shall take maidens of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that had a priest before. Ver. 22. Neither sha...
Ezekiel 44:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 wher...
Ezekiel 44:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Directions Concerning the Priests. B. C. 574. 17 And it shall come to pass, that whe...
Ezekiel 44:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

God allowed them to marry, only directs that it be not to one of ill fame or divorced, Leviticus 21:13,14 , nor the widow of any deceased common person; yet a priest might realty a priest's widow,...
Ezekiel 44:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Only The Sons of Zadok May Perform the Full Priestly Functions ( Ezekiel 44:15-31 ). “But the priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Isra...
Ezekiel 44:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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....
Ezekiel 44:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Ezekiel 44:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION The prophet, having finished his account of the temple, or place of worship, proceeds, in the second section of his vision (Ezekiel 44-46.), to set forth the culture, or ritual, to be...
Ezekiel 44:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ordinances for the Priests in the Performance of their Duties
Ezekiel 44:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 3:11 ; 1 Timothy 3:12 ; 1 Timothy 3:2 ; 1 Timothy 3:4 ; 1 Timothy 3:5 ; Deuteronomy 24:1-4 ; Leviticus 21:13 ; Leviticus 21:14 ; Leviticus 21:7 ; Titus 1:6

Ezekiel 44:22 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 44:22 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 44:22 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 44:22 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 44:22 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 44:22 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 44:22 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 44:22 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 44:22 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 44:22 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 44:22 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 44:22 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 44:22 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 44:22 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 44:22 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 44:22 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 44:22 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 44:22 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 44:22 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 44:22 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 44:22 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge