As the Levites, &c.— The word Levites is here used in its greatest latitude, and comprehends the priests as well as those who are properly called Levites. Many of these had defiled themselves with idolatry; for which crime they were to be degraded from the honours and privileges due to those priests who had continued faithful in their office. See note on chap. Ezekiel 44:10.
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Ezekiel 48:11
11 It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.