What does Ezekiel 44:23 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean."
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 TEACH, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 10:11). App-92. PROFANE. common. THEM. The 1611 edition of the Authorized Version reads "men"....
General duties of the priests towards the people. They shall teach the people to distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean, cf. Ezekiel 22:26; Leviticus 10:10; Hag...
AND CAUSE THEM TO DISCERN— _And declare to them what is the difference._ Houbigant....
_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...
44:23 holy (a-10) _ Kodesh_ ; also 'sanctuary,' chs. 41.21,23; 42.14; 45.2. see ver. 8....
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...
EZEKIEL’S LAST *VISION EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _COMMENTARY: KEITH SIMONS; TRANSLATION: IAN MACKERVOY._ CHAPTER 44 THE EAST GATE – EZEKIEL 44:1-3 V1 Then the man brought me back to the outer g...
וְ אֶת ־עַמִּ֣י יֹור֔וּ בֵּ֥ין קֹ֖דֶשׁ לְ חֹ֑ל וּ בֵין ־טָמֵ֥א לְ טָהֹ֖ור יֹודִעֻֽם׃...
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...
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 TEACH MY PEOPLE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE HOLY AND THE PROFANE,.... Persons and things; not in a ceremonial, nor merely in a moral, but in an evangelical sense, between truth and error...
And they shall teach my people [the difference] between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean. Ver. 23. _And they shall teach._] Ministers must be able and...
_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, from whence this law is taken, and where the...
ORDINANCES FOR THE PRIESTS IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR DUTIES...
THEY SHALL TEACH; by their place they were bound to instruct the people, LEVITICUS 10:10,11; this was part of their work, to read the law, expound it, and resolve questions arising about it. They were...
Ezekiel 44:23 teach H3384 (H8686) people H5971 holy H6944 unholy H2455 discern H3045 (H8686) unclean H2931 clean H2889 Ezekiel 22:26; Leviticus 10:10-11; Deuteronomy 33:10; Hosea 4:6;...
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...
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...
_They shall teach My people the difference between the holy and profane._ STEERING BETWEEN THE ROCKS I. You can judge of the moral character of any amusement by its healthful result, or by its balefu...
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 priests. Zadok was a priest of Aaron’s line in...
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. “THI...
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 perf...
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...
2 Timothy 2:24; 2 Timothy 2:25; Deuteronomy 33:10; Ezekiel 22:26; Haggai 2:11; Hosea 4:6; Leviticus 10:10; Leviticus 10:11; Malachi 2:6;...