Ezekiel 44:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

Ezekiel 44:21 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Leviticus 10:9
Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
Titus 1:7-8
For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; …
1 Timothy 5:23
Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.
1 Timothy 3:8
Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
Luke 1:15
For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 17-31)

God’s priests must be regulars, not seculars; and therefore here are rules laid down for them to govern themselves by and due encouragement given them to live up to those rules. Directions are here given, I. Concerning their clothes; they must wear linen garments when they went in to minister or do any service in the inner court, or in the sanctuary, and nothing that was woollen, because it would…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 21)

21. Neither ... wine--lest the holy enthusiasm of their devotion should be mistaken for inebriation, as in Peter’s case (Ac 2:13, 15, 18).