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G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 45:1-17

Seeing that the priests were to have no inheritance, the next section of the prophecy dealt fittingly with the method of their support. After the distribution of the land, a description of which followed later, a lot was to be set apart at its very center as an oblation to the Lord, and was to be looked on as holy land. Of this one part was to be for the maintenance of the priests and another for the Levites. On each side of this holy square of territory, land was to be set apart for the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 45:1-25

The New Temple (Ezekiel 40:1 to Ezekiel 48:35 ). The book of Ezekiel began with a vision of the glory of God and the coming of the heavenly chariot throne of God in order to speak directly to His people through Ezekiel (chapter 1). He then recorded the departure of God's glory from Jerusalem and the Temple because of the sins of Israel (chapters 8 - 11). This was followed by the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple. Now it ends with another vision, the return of God's glory to the land... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 45:9-12

God’s Word to the Princes of Israel (Ezekiel 45:9-25 ). The Need For The Prince To Ensure Justice and Fair Weights and Measures . ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Let it be enough for you, O princes of Israel. Remove violence and spoil, and execute judgment and justice. Take away your evictions from my people,” says the Lord Yahweh. “You shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of a homer,... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 45:9-16

Ezekiel 45:9-Esther : . The Prince. ( His duties and rights.)— The ominous allusion in Ezekiel 45:8 to the oppression of Israel by her kings in the past leads Ezekiel to an earnest exhortation to have done with injustice and to maintain inflexible moral principles in civil and commercial life for the days to come. This was to be secured by standardising the weights and measures, so that it would be beyond the power of the reigning monarch to alter them in his own interests. “ Five shekels... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 45:10

Ye; princes of Israel. Shall have: though they were not traders to use, yet they must have, i.e. appoint, for to them as a privilege it appertains to appoint standards for measure among their subjects. Just balances, or weights and scales, by which to measure what is to he sold by weight, one and the same to all, that none buy by a greater and sell by a lesser. So Leviticus 19:35,Leviticus 19:36; Proverbs 11:1; Proverbs 16:11; Micah 6:10,Micah 6:11. So must the prince remove oppressive cheating... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 45:11

One shall contain as much as the other, the ephah shall contain as many gallons of dry, as the bath doth contain of liquid things. An homer is commonly said to be thirty bushels, or near it. So that the ephah will be some three bushels, in dry things, and the bath sixty-four pints, or eight gallons, in liquid things. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 45:12

Having laid down the standard for weight and measure in less valuable things, and that are sold for money, now the standard is set down for the current coin which passed among them, and the valuation of which was part of the prince’s prerogative. The first mentioned in the text is the shekel, which, saith the text, contained twenty gerahs; now every gerah was one penny halfpenny English value: the shekel then was two shillings and sixpence. The twenty shekels was two pounds ten shillings, the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Ezekiel 45:1-25

THE APPORTIONMENT OF TERRITORY AROUND THE TEMPLE (Chap. 45)EXEGETICAL NOTES.—Ezekiel 45:1. “Divide by lot”—not by casting lots, but by allotment, the several portions being assigned according to rule. “Ye shall offer an oblation”—from a Hebrew root to heave or raise, because when anything was offered to God the offerer raised the hand. “Unto the Lord an holy portion.” The Lord’s portion is subdivided into throe parts—that for the Sanctuary (Ezekiel 45:2-3), that for the priests (Ezekiel 45:4),... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 45:1-25

Chapter 45Now in chapter 45 he describes here the length and all of the city, of the land itself. And it is described here as being,in length twenty-five thousand reeds, and in breadth ten thousand reeds. And then the sanctuary five hundred in length, five hundred in breadth, square round about; and fifty cubits around that for the suburbs. And of this measure thou shalt measure the length twenty-five thousand, the breadth ten thousand: it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place. The... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 45:1-25

Ezekiel 45:18 . Thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary. In the ancient tabernacle all the vessels were touched with blood, to purify and consecrate them to sacred purposes. In like manner Christ sanctifies his people, by washing them from their sins in his own blood. REFLECTIONS. The command to divide the land by lot, or into fair proportions on the return of the jews, differs materially from the division made by Joshua; and it is allowed that no such... read more

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