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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 45:21

The moral of the Passover. This great feast, which was so solemnly though hastily inaugurated, and so solemnly and joyously renewed after a discreditable lapse ( Exodus 12:1-51 .; 2 Chronicles 30:1-27 .), had an historical and also a religious aspect. I. ITS HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE . It recalled one great event of surpassing national interest; it brought back to memory the pitiless cruelty, the blind obduracy, the false confidence of Egypt, and, at the same time, the sad... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 45:22

The first day of the feast proper, i.e. the fourteenth, should be distinguished by the prince's presenting, for himself and for all the people of the land, a bullock for a sin offering. That this was a deviation from the earlier Mosaic legislation in three particulars is apparent. In, the first place, the "sin offering" here prescribed was manifestly to take precedence of the Paschal feast proper, whereas in the Paschal festival of the so-called priest-code the daffy sacrifices were... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 45:13-17

The offerings. to be made by the people through the prince for the service of the sanctuary. In the Mosaic Law the offerings for the sacrifices of the ordinary festivals were left to the free will of the people. Here they are reduced to regular order and the amounts ordained. In later days there were often shortcomings in these respects Malachi 3:8. This is obviated, and regularity ensured in the new order of things. No mention is made of wine for the drink-offering, or of bullocks for the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 45:18-25

This order of certain solemn services does not follow exactly the order of Moses, of Solomon, or of Ezra. The deviation can scarcely have been accidental, and furnishes a fresh indication that the whole vision is symbolic, representative of the times when, after the oblation of the one Sacrifice, reconciliation and sanctification were effected for man through the presence of God dwelling in the midst of the people.Ezekiel 45:18In the first day - If this is only a special Passover for the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 45:13-16

Ezekiel 45:13-16. This is the oblation, &c. The Hebrew word here translated oblation, distinguished from the first-fruits, (see note on Ezekiel 45:1,) signifies the portion belonging to the Levites out of the fruits of the earth, when they were gathered in: see Ezekiel 44:30. For which reason St. Jerome, upon the place, supposes the following words to express the proportion the people ought to pay the Levites out of the increase of their ground; which by their rabbins was determined... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 45:18-20

Ezekiel 45:18-20. In the first month, &c., thou shalt take a young bullock These words are directed to the prince, who is commanded, on the first day of the new year, (which, according to the ecclesiastical computation, began with the month Nisan, and answers to our 10th of March: see Exodus 12:2,) to provide a bullock for a burnt-offering to cleanse the temple from any defilement it might have contracted, by the people’s offering their sacrifices, or coming into any of the courts... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 45:13-25

Offerings and festivals (45:13-46:15)All the people had a part in providing the offerings for national religious festivals. The offerings were collected by the king, who then offered them in sacrifice on behalf of his people (13-17). At the beginning and end of the first week of the new year, sacrifices were offered for the cleansing of the temple (18-20). The two main annual festivals to be celebrated at the temple were the Feast of Passover and Unleavened Bread at the beginning of the year... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 45:15

fat pastures = well = watered land (Singular.) Compare Genesis 13:10 . meat offering = gift offering. See App-43 . burnt offering. See App-43 . peace offerings . See App-43 . to make reconciliation. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 1:4 ). The same expression. App-92 . reconciliation = atonement. read more

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