None of the priests shall drink wine when they enter into the inner court.
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None of the priests shall drink wine when they enter into the inner court.
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Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
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Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
Cross-references (5)
Passages linked to Ezekiel 44:21 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 10:9 “You and your sons are not to drink wine or strong drink whenever you go into the Tent of Meeting, or you will die. This shall be a statute forever throughout your generations.
- Titus 1:7-8 For the overseer must be blameless, as God’s steward, not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain; but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober minded, fair, holy, self-controlled,
- Luke 1:15 For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.
- 1 Timothy 3:8 Servants, in the same way, must be reverent, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine, not greedy for money,
- 1 Timothy 5:23 Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 44:21 Neither shall any priest drink wine, when…
Eze 44:21 Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
Ver. 21. Neither shall any priest drink wine.] Wherein is excess. {Eph 5:18 Lev 10:9}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Any priest; any one, on any pretence.
Any priest; any one, on any pretence.
Wine, or any other strong intoxicating liquor.
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When they enter into the inner court; when they go, either to trim the lamps, or set the shew-bread in order, or to offer incense in the temple; or when they go to the altar to offer a sacrifice, which stood in the inner court: this prohibition you have Lev 10:9, which see, and it was to prevent all indecencies in the service.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Neither shall any priest drink wine,.... That is, to…
Neither shall any priest drink wine,.... That is, to excess, immoderately, so as to be inebriated with it, Lev 10:9, should not be given to it, and greedy of it, and drink it so as to disguise themselves: this is reckoned among the qualifications of a Gospel minister, Ti1 3:3, otherwise it is not forbidden good men, or ministers of the word, to drink wine, for health's sake, and for the refreshment of nature, provided it is done in moderation, Ti1 5:23, and particularly care should be taken that they drink it in such a manner,
when they enter into the inner court: to attend divine service, since immoderate drinking affects the memory; and such may forget the law and doctrines of the Lord they are to deliver or hear; and may put them upon saying and doing that which is improper and indecent: drunkenness in any Christian professor is abominable, especially in a minister of the word; and when it appears in his ministration, it is scandalous to the last degree.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Drink wine - Or any other strong liquor, when…
Drink wine - Or any other strong liquor, when they go either to trim the lamps or set the shew-bread in order, or to offer incense in the temple, or when they go to the altar to offer a sacrifice, which stood in the inner court.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Eze 44:21-23. Neither shall any priest drink wine when…
Eze 44:21-23. 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 Lev 10:9-10, from whence this law is taken, and where the reason of it is given. Neither shall they take for their wives a widow — This law we find Lev 21:13-14; but it there concerns only the high-priest, here it is applied to all the priests in general. And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, &c. — Between good and evil, between what is lawful and what is unlawful; that they may neither scruple what is lawful, nor venture upon what is unlawful; that they may not pollute what is holy, nor pollute themselves with what is profane. Ministers should take pains to cause people to discern between the clean and the unclean, that they may not confound the distinctions between right and wrong, nor mistake concerning them, so as to put darkness for light, or light for darkness; but may have a well-informed judgment, especially in all matters of duty.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Wine. Leviticus x. 9. The priests on duty abstain…
Wine. Leviticus x. 9. The priests on duty abstain from wine. (Josephus, Jewish Wars vi. 15.)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Neither . . . wine--lest the holy enthusiasm of…
Neither . . . wine--lest the holy enthusiasm of their devotion should be mistaken for inebriation, as in Peter's case (Act 2:13, Act 2:15, Act 2:18).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 21. This was according to Lev_10:9. On ordinary occasions…
21. This was according to Lev_10:9. On ordinary occasions the Jews might drink wine in moderation. The Palestinian wine and the Hebrew temperament differed greatly from the American. There are no drunkards now in Palestine, and even in America it is almost an unheard-of thing for a Jew to give way to alcoholism.
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 21. On this prohibition cf. the narrative Lev_10:1-9.
21. On this prohibition cf. the narrative Lev_10:1-9.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The prohibition of wine to the priests when engaged…
The prohibition of wine to the priests when engaged in temple service accorded with Mosaic legislation. (Lev_10:9) Total abstinence at other times was not enjoined.
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