Ezekiel 44:1-31

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 44:1-3

The prophet is here brought to review what he had before once surveyed; for, though we have often looked into the things of God, they will yet bear to be looked over again, such a copiousness there is in them. The lessons we have learned we should still repeat to ourselves. Every time we review the sacred fabric of holy things, which we have in the scriptures, we shall still find something new which we did not before take notice of. The prophet is brought a third time to the east gate, and... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 44:4-9

This is much to the same purport with what we had in the beginning of Ezek. 43:1-31 As the prophet must look again upon what he had before seen, so he must be told again what he had before heard. Here, as before, he sees the house filled with the glory of the Lord, which strikes an awe upon him, so that he falls prostrate at the sight, the humblest posture of adoration and the expression of a holy awe: I fell upon my face, Ezek. 44:4. Note, The more we see of the glory of God the more low we... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 44:10-16

The Master of the house, being about to set up house again, takes account of his servants the priests, and sees who are fit to be turned out of their places and who to be kept in, and takes a course with them accordingly. I. Those who have been treacherous are degraded and put lower those Levites?or priests who were carried down the stream of the apostasy of Israel formerly, who went astray from God after their idols (Ezek. 44:10), who had complied with the idolatrous kings of Israel or Judah,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Ezekiel 44:17-31

God's priests must be regulars, not seculars; and therefore here are rules laid down for them to govern themselves by and due encouragement given them to live up to those rules. Directions are here given, I. Concerning their clothes; they must wear linen garments when they went in to minister or do any service in the inner court, or in the sanctuary, and nothing that was woollen, because it would cause sweat, Ezek. 44:17, 18. They must dress themselves cool, that they might go the more readily... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 44:1

Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary ,.... The prophet was brought by his divine guide, from the altar of burnt offerings, which stood before the house, where he had given him the dimensions of it, and the ordinances concerning it, to the temple or holy place, called the outward sanctuary, in distinction from the inward sanctuary, or holy of holies; and to one of the gates of it, which was a gate of the inner court: and which looketh toward the east : the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 44:2

Then said the Lord unto me, this gate shall be shut ,.... In time to come, as Jarchi interprets it, in the latter day; it was shut, and it should continue to be shut: it shall not be opened ; any more; though it has been, yet hereafter no more: and no man shall enter in by it , into the house of the Lord, because the Lord the God of Israel hath entered in by it ; the same with the glory of the God of Israel, Ezekiel 43:2 , therefore it shall be shut ; no one being to enter... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 44:3

It is for the prince: the prince shall sit in it to eat bread before the Lord ,.... Or, "as for the prince, the prince shall sit in it" F5 את הנשיא נשיא הוא ישב בו "veruntamen ad principem quod attinet, princeps ipse inquam", &c.; Piscator; "quantum ad principem"; "princeps sedebit in ea", Noldius, Ebr. Part. Concord. p. 120. ; in the gate which is shut to others: not the high priest, as Jarchi, though he might have a particular seat in the temple, as Eli had in the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 44:4

Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house ,.... The north gate of the inward court, whither he was brought from the east gate, which was shut: this, and what follow, may have some respect to the churches in these our northern parts of the world, in their now declining circumstances, which are aptly represented in some following verses; but will hereafter be filled with the glory of the Lord, as follows: and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 44:5

And the Lord said unto me, son of man ,.... This is still the voice of the Lord speaking out of the house to the prophet, Ezekiel 43:6 , mark well ; or, "set thine heart" F6 שים לבך "pone cor tuum", V. L. Vatablus, Paguinus, Montanus; "pone ad cor tuum", Starckius. ; be attentive to what is about to be said, as being of great concern and importance: and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee ; heart, eyes, and ears, are all to be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 44:6

And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel ,.... This is a character of literal Israel from the beginning, Deuteronomy 9:24 , and frequently given it in this prophecy, Ezekiel 2:2 , Ezekiel 3:9 and well agrees with these declining churches in the latter day, and even in our times; it represents them as rebellious, because of their disregard to the ordinances of God's house, and to the laws and rules of it; and are not only called "rebellious", but "rebellion" ... read more

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