Ezekiel 44:10

The Levites that are gone away, &c.— Many of these desisted from attending upon God's service, and fell into idolatry, first in the general apostacy of the ten tribes, afterwards under Ahaz and other wicked kings. These should be degraded from attending upon the higher offices belonging to the priesthood; God having particularly threatened to punish the sin of idolatry unto the third and fourth generation; idolatry being, according to the law of the Jews, one of the crimes which was punished with the deprivation of the priesthood. See Lowth and Calmet. Houbigant renders the verse thus, And the Levites also who departed from me, and who drew astray those of the children of Israel who went after their Gods, shall bear their iniquity.