The priests would teach (verse 23), but they would also issue judgements. But they would not decide these things by their own standards. God’s law would be the only standard for his people. And God’s law would be their guide for their own lives.
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 IN CONTROVERSY, do. Ref to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 17:9). App-92. CONTROVEREY. strife. ASSEMBLIES. appointed seasons. THEY SHALL HALLOW, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 19:30),...
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...
They shall also act as judges in causes that arise among the people. It is not certain that Ezek. commits the office of judge to the priests exclusively, cf. Ezekiel 45:9. In Deuteronomy 17:8 _seq_.,...
_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. Deuteronomy 17:8; Deuteronomy 19:17; Deuteronomy 21:5, where the priests are associated with secular judges....
וְ עַל ־רִ֗יב הֵ֚מָּה יַעַמְד֣וּ _לְ_†_מִשְׁפָּ֔ט_†...
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 IN CONTROVERSY THEY SHALL STAND IN JUDGMENT,.... When any controversy arises among the saints concerning civil things, this shall not be carried into a court of judicature, of the men of the world...
And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; [and] they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabba...
_And in controversy they shall stand in judgment_ The priests were to determine all controversies relating to the law, as well the judicial as the ceremonial part of it, which were brought before them...
And in controversy they shall stand in judgment, perform the office of judge in deciding controversies pertaining to the Law of God, thus extending the duties enjoined Deuteronomy 17:8; Deuteronomy 19...
ORDINANCES FOR THE PRIESTS IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR DUTIES...
IN CONTROVERSY; in doubts about lawful and unlawful, in pretences of right and wrong in all contests. THEY SHALL STAND IN JUDGMENT; if the controversy be brought to them, they shall hear and consider....
Ezekiel 44:24 controversy H7379 stand H5975 (H8799) judges H8199 (H8800) judge H8199 (H8799) judgments H4941 keep
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 Chronicles 23:4; 1 Timothy 3:15; 2 Chronicles 19:8; Deuteronomy 17:8;...
Shall judge — Shall determine the controversy. Assemblies — Publick congregations....