a widow] In this the marriage of the High Priest (for in this particular the prohibition is not given to inferiour Priests) was more precise, then the ministers of the Gospel need to be; but in the other exceptions, there is a morall reason for them, which was not peculiar to the Priesthood, but belongeth to modesty, honesty, and decency of the Evangelicall ministery. of his own people] Whereby, though it be meant, that usually the Levites should marry within their owne tribes, as the rest did; yet because they had no separate portion of the land of Canaan by themselves, as the other tribes had, but were in a manner mingled among them by their dwellings; this restraint of marriage was not so strictly observed among them, but that they might sometimes marry with daughters that were not of their own tribe; as Jehoiada married Jehoshabeath the daughter of Jehoram king of Judah. 2 Chronicles 22:11.