A priest who touched a dead body was not *clean. He had to do special things before he became *clean (Numbers 19:11-13).
A priest could take proper care of his family. So he could bury his closest relatives. But he could not serve God at the *temple again until he was *clean.
Verse Ezekiel 44:25. _AND THEY SHALL COME AT NO DEAD PERSON TO DEFILE_ _THEMSELVES_] Touching the dead defiles a _Hindoo_ now, as it formerly did a _Jew_; and they must bathe to become clean again....
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 un...
CHAPTER 44 _ 1. The outward eastern gate for the prince (Ezekiel 44:1) _ 2. The charge concerning the strangers and the rebellious tribes (Ezekiel 44:4) 3. The charge concerning the priests, the so...
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...
AND THEY SHALL COME, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 21:1). App-92. PERSON. human being. Hebrew. _adam_. App-14. FOR BROTHER. Some codices. with one early printed edition, read "or for", comp...
Regulations for their necessary contact with the dead. They shall approach the dead bodies only of their nearest relatives, father, mother, son, daughter, brother and unmarried sister. From the defile...
_3. The regulations for the Zadokite priests (44:15-27_) TRANSLATION (15) But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of My sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray...
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 the...
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). The Speaker first rebu...
Cp. Leviticus 21:1; 26. Cp. Numbers 19:11....
וְ אֶל ־מֵ֣ת אָדָ֔ם לֹ֥א יָבֹ֖וא לְ
THE PRIESTHOOD Ezekiel 44:1 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 to be co...
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...
And they shall come near no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may (g) defile thems...
_Unclean, attending the funeral, which inferior priests alone might do, Leviticus xxi. 10. (Menochius)_...
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 ordinan...
Chapter 44 makes known the fact that Jehovah is returned to His house, and the memorial of His having done so is preserved in that the door by which He entered is to remain for ever shut. The Prince a...
AND THEY SHALL COME AT NO DEAD PERSON TO DEFILE THEMSELVES,.... Shall not come into places where they are, nor touch them, nor attend their funerals, Leviticus 21:1, that their work might not be inter...
And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no husband, they may defile themselves....
_They shall come at no dead person to defile themselves _ Whosoever touched a dead body became legally unclean, (Numbers 19:11,) and thereby was disqualified for attending upon God's worship in the te...
ORDINANCES FOR THE PRIESTS IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR DUTIES...
And they shall come at no dead person to defile themselves, namely, by touching or handling a corpse; BUT FOR FATHER, OR FOR MOTHER, OR FOR SON, OR FOR DAUGHTER, FOR BROTHER, OR FOR SISTER THAT HATH H...
THEY, the priests, who come near to minister before the Lord, SHALL COME AT NO DEAD PERSON; neither touch, nor come into the room, nor attend the funeral of the dead; for this would be a legal and cer...
Ezekiel 44:25 defile H2930 (H8800) near H935 (H8799) dead H4191 (H8801) person H120 father H1 mother...
“And they shall come into contact with no dead person to defile themselves. But for father, or for mother, or for son, or for daughter, for brother or for sister who has no husband they may defile the...
ONLY THE SONS OF ZADOK MAY PERFORM THE FULL PRIESTLY FUNCTIONS (EZEKIEL 44:15). “But the priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went a...
CONTENTS: Gate for the prince. God's glory filling the temple. The priests. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, sons of Zadok, prince. CONCLUSION: In the great temple of Jehovah in the kingdom age, Israel sha...
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 att...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 44:15 The privilege of serving at the altar and in the sanctuary itself BEFORE the Lord (v. Ezekiel 44:15) falls to the Zadokite priest
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...
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 perfo...
CHAPTER 44. ORDINANCES FOR THE PRINCE AND THE PRIESTHOOD. Ezekiel 44:1. _And he brought me again by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, that looks toward the east, and it was shut._ Ezekiel...
Now 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 r...
1 Thessalonians 4:13; 2 Corinthians 5:16; Leviticus 21:1; Leviticus 22:4;...