Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 44:22

22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, or 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.

God allow'd them to marry, onely directs, it be not one of ill fame or divorced, Lev. 21.13, 14. nor the widow of any deceased common person, yet a Priest might marry. a Priests widow, but a Virgin rather commended to their choice; and whether Widow, or Virgin, it must not be as Moses married a daughter of a strange people, or as they did in Babylon, Ezra 10.18. &c. and possibly this of Ezekiel was design'd, as a rule to direct Ezra in reforming this disorder, when they came from Babylon; Nor were they at liberty to marry any of any Tribe, but it must be one of their own Tribe too.

Marginal references: Lev. 21.7.; Heb. thrust [illegible: 1 span].; Heb. from a [illegible: 2 letters]iest.