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Ezekiel 44:2-12

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2 The LORD said to me, "This gate shall be shut; it shall not be opened, and no one shall enter by it, for the 1LORD God of Israel has entered by it; therefore it shall be shut.
3 "As for the 2prince, he shall sit in it as prince to 3eat bread before the LORD; he shall 4enter by way of the 5porch of the gate and shall go out by the same way."
4 Then He brought me by way of the 6north gate to the front of the house; and I looked, and behold, the 7glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD, and I 8fell on my face.
5 The LORD said to me, "Son of man, 9mark well, see with your eyes and hear with your ears all that I say to you concerning all the 10statutes of the house of the LORD and concerning all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with all exits of the sanctuary.
6 "You shall say to the 11rebellious ones, to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "12Enough of all your abominations, O house of Israel,
7 when you brought in 13foreigners *, 14uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in My sanctuary to profane it, even My house, when you 15offered My food, the fat and the blood; for they 16made My covenant void -this in addition to all your abominations.
8 "And you have not 17kept charge of My holy things yourselves, but you have set foreigners to keep charge of My sanctuary."
9 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "18No * foreigner * uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, of all the foreigners * who are among the sons of Israel, shall enter My sanctuary.
10 "But the Levites who went far from Me when Israel went astray, who 19went astray from Me after their idols, shall 20bear the punishment for their iniquity.
11 "Yet they shall be 21ministers in My sanctuary, having 22oversight at the gates of the house and 23ministering in the house; they shall 24slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shall 25stand before them to minister to them.
12 "Because * they ministered to them 26before their idols and became a 27stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore * I have 28sworn * against them," declares the Lord GOD, "that they shall 29bear the punishment for their iniquity.
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Ezekiel 44:2-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 44

This chapter treats of the eastern gate of the temple being appropriated to the use of the prince, Eze 44:1-3, of the sin of the Lord's people, in admitting strangers and unholy persons into the sanctuary, either to officiate or communicate there, Eze 44:4-9 of the degrading of the Levites, that went astray, assigning them inferior posts and service in the house of God, Eze 44:10-14 and of the establishment of the sons of Zadok in their ministry, who were faithful, Eze 44:15,16, then follow various laws relating to their garments; shaving of their heads; drinking wine; their marriage; performance of their ministerial work; their regard to the dead, and their food and maintenance, Eze 44:17-31.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 29

  • 1. Ezekiel 43:2-4
  • 2. Ezekiel 34:24; Ezekiel 37:25
  • 3. Genesis 31:54; Exodus 24:9-11
  • 4. Ezek 46:2, 8-10
  • 5. Ezekiel 40:9
  • 6. Ezekiel 40:20, 40
  • 7. Isaiah 6:3, 4; Ezekiel 1:28; Ezekiel 3:23; Ezekiel 43:4, 5; Haggai 2:7
  • 8. Ezekiel 1:28; Ezekiel 43:3
  • 9. Deuteronomy 32:46; Ezekiel 40:4
  • 10. Deuteronomy 12:32; Ezekiel 43:10, 11
  • 11. Ezekiel 2:5-7; Ezekiel 3:9
  • 12. Ezekiel 45:9; 1 Peter 4:3
  • 13. Exodus 12:43-49
  • 14. Leviticus 26:41; Deuteronomy 10:16; Jeremiah 4:4; Jeremiah 9:26
  • 15. Leviticus 22:25
  • 16. Genesis 17:14
  • 17. Leviticus 22:2; Numbers 18:7
  • 18. Ezekiel 44:7; Joel 3:17; Zechariah 14:21
  • 19. 2 Kings 23:8, 9; Ezekiel 22:26; Ezekiel 44:12
  • 20. Numbers 18:23
  • 21. Numbers 3:5-37; Numbers 4:1-33; Numbers 18:2-7
  • 22. 1 Chronicles 26:1-19
  • 23. Ezekiel 40:45; Ezekiel 44:14
  • 24. 2 Chronicles 29:34; 2 Chronicles 30:17
  • 25. Numbers 16:9
  • 26. 2 Kings 16:10-16
  • 27. Ezekiel 14:3, 4
  • 28. Ezekiel 20:15, 23
  • 29. Ezekiel 44:10

Footnotes 7

  • [a]. Lit "by his way"
  • [b]. Lit "set your heart on"
  • [c]. Lit "set your heart on"
  • [d]. Lit "rebellion"
  • [e]. Heb "YHWH," usually rendered LORD, and so throughout the ch
  • [f]. Lit "as keepers of My charge in My"
  • [g]. Lit "lifted up My hand"
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