Ezekiel 44:2
44:2 Then said the LORD to me; This gate shall be {a} shut, it
     shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it;
     because the LORD, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it,
     therefore it shall be shut.

     (a) Meaning, from the common people, but not from the
         priests nor the prince, read Ezekiel 46:8,9.

Ezekiel 44:7
44:7 In that ye have brought [into my sanctuary] {b} strangers,
     uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be
     in my sanctuary, to pollute it, [even] my house, when ye
     offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken
     my covenant because of all your abominations.

     (b) For they had brought idolaters who were from other
         countries, to teach them their idolatry,
         Ezekiel 23:40.

Ezekiel 44:8
44:8 And ye have not kept the {c} charge of my holy things: but
     ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for
     yourselves.

     (c) You have not offered to me according to my Law.

Ezekiel 44:10
44:10 And the {d} Levites that have gone away far from me, when
      Israel went astray, who went astray from me after their
      idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.

      (d) The Levites who had committed idolatry were put from
          their dignity and could not be received into the
          priests office although they had been of the house of
          Aaron, but must serve in the inferior offices as to
          watch and to keep the doors, read 2 Kings 23:9.

Ezekiel 44:15
44:15 But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that {e}
      kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of
      Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to
      minister to me, and they shall stand before me to offer to
      me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord GOD:

      (e) Who observed the law of God and did not fall to
          idolatry.

Ezekiel 44:20
44:20 Neither shall they {f} shave their heads, nor allow their
      locks to grow long; they shall only cut [the hair of]
      their heads.

      (f) As did the infidels and heathen.

Ezekiel 44:25
44:25 And they shall come near no dead person to defile
      themselves: but for father, or for mother, or for son, or
      for daughter, for brother, or for sister that hath had no
      husband, they may {g} defile themselves.

      (g) They may be at their burial which was a defiling.