Ezekiel 44:22

Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her who is put away, but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

21Neither shall any of the priests drink wine when they enter into the inner court.

23And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

Read all of Ezekiel 44

Cross References

Leviticus 21:13And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

Deuteronomy 24:1When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her ou

1 Timothy 3:2The overseer therefore must be blameless, the husband of one wife, without wine, serious minded, disciplined, loving strangers, able to teach,

1 Timothy 3:11The wives likewise, be honorable, not slanderous, without wine, faithful in all things.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 44:18-31

Directions Concerning the Priests. ( b. c. 574.) 17 And it shall come to pass, that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, whiles they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within. 18 They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat. 19 And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Ezekiel 44:22