Ezekiel 44:8

44:8 You have not kept charge of my holy things, but you have assigned foreigners ¹  to keep charge of my sanctuary for you.

Ezekiel 40:45

40:45 He said to me, “This chamber which faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple, ² 

Ezekiel 44:14

44:14 Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the temple, all of its service and all that will be done in it.

Ezekiel 44:16

44:16 They will enter my sanctuary, and approach my table to minister to me; they will keep my charge.

Ezekiel 40:46

40:46 and the chamber which faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the descendants of Zadok, from the descendants of Levi, who may approach the Lord to minister to him.”

Ezekiel 48:11

48:11 This will be for the priests who are set apart from the descendants of Zadok who kept my charge and did not go astray when the people of Israel strayed off, like the Levites did. ³ 

Ezekiel 44:15

The Levitical Priests

44:15 “‘But the Levitical priests, the descendants of Zadok ⁴  who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the people of Israel went astray from me, will approach me to minister to me; they will stand before me to offer me the fat and the blood, declares the sovereign Lord.

[44:8]  ¹ tc Instead of an energic nun (ן), the text may have read a third masculine plural suffix ם (mem), “them,” which was confused with ן (nun) in the old script. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 2:621.

[40:45]  ² tn Heb “the house.”

[48:11]  ³ tn Heb “strayed off.”

[44:15]  ⁴ sn Zadok was a descendant of Aaron through Eleazar (1 Chr 6:50-53), who served as a priest during David’s reign (2 Sam 8:17).