CHAPTER 45 1. The portions of the priests, the Levites, of the whole house of Israel, and the prince (Ezekiel 45:1-8 ) 2. Concerning the prince (Ezekiel 45:9-17 ) 3. The feast of Passover and the feast of tabernacles (Ezekiel 45:18-25 ) read more
45:10 Ye shall have just balances, and a just {c} ephah, and a just bath.(c) Ephah and Bath are the same quantity save that an Ephah is a dry measure and a Bath liquid, Leviticus 5:11, 1 Kings 5:11 . read more
45:12 And the shekel [shall be] twenty gerahs: twenty shekels, {d} five and twenty shekels, fifteen shekels, shall be your maneh.(d) That is, sixty shekels make a weight called Mina, for he joins these three parts to a Mina. read more
THE CLOSE OF THE BOOK THE GATE OF THE PRINCE (Ezekiel 44:1-3 ) As the glory of Jehovah had entered this gate (Ezekiel 48:4-5 ), it must hereafter be closed for all but His representative the prince. This cannot mean the Messiah, because the prince requires a sin-offering. (Remember that sin will be suppressed in that day, but not yet extirpated.) Doubtless this prince is a future prince of the house of David. THE FUTURE PRIESTS AND LEVITES (Ezekiel 44:9-31 ) Ezekiel 44:9-14 show that... read more
Here are, precepts adapted to those that minister in the departments of justice, suited to Israel at all times, and upon all occasions. If the Reader wishes to know the proportion to our standard, in weights and measures, the table at the end of most Bibles will inform him. read more
The ephi and the bate. These measures were of equal capacity; but the bate served for liquids, and the ephi for dry things, (Challoner) ver. 13, 14. (Worthington) --- Ezechiel specifies the measures, that the people might not use those of Babylon, after their return. read more
Sicles. It would be shorter to say, "sixty sicles make a mna." read more
The Portion of the People v. 9. Thus saith the Lord God, in connecting up this paragraph with the last statement of the previous section, Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, so that they would no more be guilty of the Oppression formerly practiced, and execute judgment and justice, so as to make righteousness the guiding principle in all their actions; take away your exactions from My people saith the Lord God, for this had been done by expelling lawful... read more
CHAPTER 451And when ye allot [divide] the land as inheritance, ye shall make an oblation to Jehovah, a holiness from the land; the length five and twenty thousand and the breadth ten thousand; holiness [is] it in all its border round 2about. Of this shall be [come, belong] to the sanctuary five hundred by five hundred, a square round about; and fifty cubits of environs for it round 3about. And from [according to] this measure shalt thou measure a length of five and twenty thousand and a breadth... read more
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Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 45:1-25
THE RITUALEzekiel 45:1-25; Ezekiel 46:1-24IT is difficult to go back in imagination to a time when sacrifice was the sole and sufficient form of every complete act of worship. That the slaughter of an animal, or at least the presentation of a material offering of some sort, should ever have been considered of the essence of intercourse with the Deity may seem to us incredible in the light of the idea of God which we now possess. Yet there can be no doubt that there was a stage of religious... read more