Ezekiel 44:29 NIV

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 44:28-30

Ezekiel 44:28-30. It shall be unto them for an inheritance, &c. Their ministry in my sanctuary, and the perquisites thereto belonging, shall be to them instead of lands and inheritances, of which they shall not have any share, as the other tribes have, (see the margins) excepting the portion allotted to them in the beginning of the following chapter. They shall eat the meat-offering, &c. They shall have their share of them, after the part dedicated to God has been consumed upon... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 44:1-31

Service in the temple (44:1-31)Because the glory of God had entered the temple through the east gate of the outer court, no human being was considered worthy to enter by this gate. It therefore had always to be kept shut (44:1-2). The king, however, could eat his sacrificial meal in the vestibule that was on the inside of the east gate. He had to enter the temple compound by either the north or the south gate, then enter the vestibule from the courtyard side (3).The presence of God’s glory in... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 44:29

every dedicated thing , &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 18:14 . A verbal reference. App-92 . read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 44:15-31

The Zadokite priests 44:15-31 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 44:28-29

These priests would receive no other inheritance in the land but the privilege of serving the Lord in the special ways that He permitted. The Lord would designate a portion of the land in which they would live (Ezekiel 45:4; Ezekiel 48:10-11), but this was not their inheritance. The perquisites of this inheritance would include the privilege of eating parts of the best grains and animals that the people brought to the Lord as sacrifices (cf. Deuteronomy 25:4; 1 Corinthians 9:9-12; 1 Timothy... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 44:1-31

§ 2. The Ordinances of the New Israel (Ezekiel 40-48)This concluding section of the book is dated in the twenty-fifth year of Ezekiel's captivity, i.e. the fourteenth year after the fall of Jerusalem (572 b.c.). It is therefore thirteen years later than the previous section (Ezekiel 33-39), and, with the exception of Ezekiel 29:17-21, forms the latest part of the book. It is in the form of a vision, which is the counterpart of that in Ezekiel 8-11. There God forsook the old Temple which had... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 44:4-31

The Priests and the LevitesStanding at the inner northern gate Ezekiel again saw the glory of God filling the Temple and was again addressed by the divine voice (Ezekiel 44:4-5). The Speaker first rebuked the custom which had prevailed in the old Temple, of having foreigners as servants in the sanctuary (Ezekiel 44:6-8). He directed that in future their place should be taken by the Lévites who were not of the family of Zadok. These had formerly shared the priestly office, but for their... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Ezekiel 44:1-31

Ezekiel 44:6 Still I delayed to scorn and leave the bliss of earthly things.... Wretched, most wretched, I had begged chastity from Thee in my early youth, crying, 'Give me chastity, only not yet'. For I feared lest Thou shouldest hear me soon, and cure me soon of the disease of concupiscence, which I wished to have satisfied rather than extinguished. Augustine, Confessions, viii. 7. Ezekiel 44:13-14 The comparison thought, that profit accrues to a life by the wise memory of its past... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 44:1-31

PRINCE AND PEOPLEEzekiel 44:1-31; Ezekiel 45:1-25; Ezekiel 46:1-24, PASSIMIT was remarked in a previous chapter that the "prince" of the closing vision appears to occupy a less exalted position than the Messianic king of chapter 34 or chapter 37. The grounds on which this impression rests require, however, to be carefully considered, if we are not to carry away a thoroughly false conception of the theocratic state foreshadowed by Ezekiel. It must not be supposed that the prince is a personage... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Ezekiel 44:1-31

CHAPTER 44 1. The outward eastern gate for the prince (Ezekiel 44:1-3 ) 2. The charge concerning the strangers and the rebellious tribes (Ezekiel 44:4-14 ) 3. The charge concerning the priests, the sons of Zadok (Ezekiel 44:15-27 ) 4. The inheritance of the priests (Ezekiel 44:28-31 ) read more