Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 44:20
To grow long — Priding themselves in it, as Absalom. Shall only poll — When the hair is grown, they shall cut the ends of their hair, and keep it in moderate size.
To grow long — Priding themselves in it, as Absalom. Shall only poll — When the hair is grown, they shall cut the ends of their hair, and keep it in moderate size.
Verse Ezekiel 44:20. _NEITHER SHALL THEY SHAVE THEIR HEADS_] The priests of _Isis_ shaved their heads close to the skin; the priests of _Budhoo_ do so still, their ordinances oblige them to shave the...
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...
NEITHER SHALL THEY, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 21:5). App-92. ONLY POLL. surely clip....
The priests shall poll or cut the hair of their heads, and neither shave their heads bald nor let the hair flow loose. Shaving the head bald was a sign of mourning (Leviticus 21:5; Leviticus 21:10, cf...
NEITHER SHALL THEY SHAVE, &C.— The Jews understand this as an expression of mourning for the dead. The words in the original contain a general prohibition, including the times of mourning, as well as...
_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 shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads. Neither shall they shave their heads - as mourners used to do, and as the Levitical priest...
Cp. Leviticus 21:5....
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...
The priests must behave in a careful manner. It is interesting to compare the instructions for Christian leaders in 1 Timothy 3:2-7....
THEIR LOCKS TO GROW LONG. — The law forbade the shaving of the head (Leviticus 21:5), but only condemned letting the hair grow long by implication, providing for it in the exceptional case of the vow...
וְ רֹאשָׁם֙ לֹ֣א יְגַלֵּ֔חוּ וּ פֶ֖רַע לֹ֣א
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...
Neither shall they (f) shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long; they shall only cut [the hair of] their heads. (f) As did the infidels and heathen....
_Shave, like the priests of Isis. (Juvenal vi.)_...
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...
NEITHER SHALL THEY SHAVE THEIR HEADS,.... As the priests and worshippers of Isis and Serapis did, as Jerom on the text observes; and as the Romish priests now do, from whom the Lord's faithful ministe...
Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads. Ver. 20. _Neither shall they shave their heads._] What can the Popish shavelings say to th...
_When they shall enter in at the gates of the inner court_ The court just before the temple, where the altar of the burnt-offering stood; _they shall be clothed with linen garments_ The ephod, breeche...
Neither shall they shave their heads, which was a heathenish custom and therefore forbidden to priests of old, Leviticus 21:5, NOR SUFFER THEIR LOCKS TO GROW LONG, Leviticus 10:6; THEY SHALL ONLY POLL...
ORDINANCES FOR THE PRIESTS IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR DUTIES...
_ To shave their heads was forbidden_, LEVITICUS 19:27, LEVITICUS 21:5. Hair is given for an ornament, and the priests should not disfigure themselves, nor imitate idolatrous heathens. NOR SUFFER THEI...
Ezekiel 44:20 shave H1548 (H8762) heads H7218 hair H6545 long H7971 (H8762) hair H7218 well H3697 ...
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...
“Nor shall they shave their heads, nor allow their locks to grow long. They shall only cut the hair of their heads. Nor shall any priest drink wine when they enter into the inner court. Nor shall they...
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 Corinthians 11:14; Deuteronomy 14:1; Leviticus 21:5; Numbers 6:5...