エゼキエル書 45:7-25 JCB

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 45:1-8

Directions are here given for the dividing of the land after their return to it; and, God having warranted them to do it, would be an act of faith, and not of folly, thus to divide it before they had it. And it would be welcome news to the captives to hear that they should not only return to their own land, but that, whereas they were now but few in number, they should increase and multiply, so as to replenish it. But this never had its accomplishment in the Jewish state after the return out... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 45:9-12

We have here some general rules of justice laid down both for prince and people, the rules of distributive and commutative justice; for godliness without honesty is but a form of godliness, will neither please God nor avail to the benefit of any people. Be it therefore enacted, by the authority of the church's King and God, 1. That princes do not oppress their subjects, but duly and faithfully administer justice among them (Ezek. 45:9): ?Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel! that you have... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 45:13-25

Having laid down the rules of the righteousness toward men, which is really a branch off true religion, he comes next to give some directions for their religion towards God, which is a branch of universal righteousness. I. It is required that they offer an oblation to the Lord out of what they have (Ezek. 45:13): All the people of the land must give an oblation, Ezek. 45:16. As God's tenants, they must pay a quitrent to their great landlord. They had offered an oblation out of their real... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 45:7

And a portion shall be for the prince ,.... Meaning not the civil magistrate; though he ought to be supported in his dignity and authority, and in such manner that he may be under no temptation to oppress his subjects; and who ought to be, and at this time will be, the protector of the Lord's people, both in their civil and church state; but the Prince Messiah, of whom see Ezekiel 44:3 , to whom God will divide a portion with the great; Jacob shall be his portion, the Heathen his... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 45:8

In the land shall be his possession in Israel ,.... Or, "as for the land, it shall be his for a possession in Israel" F1 לארץ יהיה ול לאחזה "de terra vel quod attinet ad terram, sive terrae (illud), erit in possessionem in Israel", Starckius. ; the people of the land shall be a people for possession, as in 1 Peter 2:9 or a peculiar people of his throughout all Israel; all the spiritual Israel, whether Jew or Gentile, shall be Christ's possession and inheritance: and my... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 45:9

Thus saith the Lord, let it suffice you, O princes of Israel ,.... Christian kings and princes, for such there shall be in those times; and who will have large and ample salaries provided for them, as they should have to support their dignity; and with which they should be content, as they will be, and not encroach upon the properties of their subjects: remove violence and spoil ; from your administration; the sense is, do not use violence, and exercise rapine and spoil, let these be far... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 45:10

Ye shall have just balances ,.... That is, take care that true weights and just measures be used in trade and commerce, that so one man may not impose upon and cheat another; which is the business of the civil magistrate to look after: and a just ephah, and a just bath ; and not make the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit, as some did, Amos 8:5 the "ephah" was a measure for dry things, as wheat, barley, &c.; and the "bath" for liquid things, as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 45:11

The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure ,.... The one held as much of dry things as the other of liquor; which, according to Bishop Cumberland, were seven wine gallons, four pints, and a little more: that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer ; this "homer" must be carefully distinguished from another measure, called "omer", written without an "h", which was but the tenth part of an "ephah", Exodus 16:36 , the measure... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 45:12

And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs ,.... This is a rule for money or coin; the shekel was a silver coin, and is generally reckoned about the value of two shillings and six pence of our money, so a gerah about three half pennies: Bishop Cumberland reckons the shekel more exactly at two shillings and four pence farthing, and a little more, and the gerah at eleven grains of silver; see Leviticus 27:25 , twenty shekels, five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 45:13

This is the oblation that ye shall offer ,.... Not at the dedication of the temple, to be built in time to come, as Kimchi thinks; nor for the daily sacrifices, as others; but for the maintenance of the priests, that is, the ministers of the Gospel; for here begin the rules for the right ordering of ecclesiastical affairs of those times: the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley : this confirms that an "ephah" was... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 45:1-8

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 45:9-12

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 45:13-25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 45:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 45:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 45:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 45:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 45:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 45:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 45:13

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