Ezekiel 46:9-19

9 "But when the people of the land come ¹before the LORD at the appointed feasts, he who enters by way of the north gate to worship shall go out by way of the south gate. And he who enters by way of the south gate shall go out by way of the north gate. No one shall return by way of the gate by which he entered but shall go straight out.

10 "When they go in, the prince shall go in ²among them; and when they go out, he shall go out.

11 "At the ³festivals and the appointed feasts the ⁴grain offering shall be an ephah with a bull and an ephah with a ram, and with the lambs as much as one is able to give, and a hin of oil with an ephah.

12 "When the prince provides a ⁵freewill offering, a burnt offering, or peace offerings as a freewill offering to the LORD, the gate facing east shall be ⁶opened for him. And he shall provide his burnt offering and his peace offerings as he does on the ⁷sabbath day. Then he shall go out, and the gate shall be shut after he goes out.

13 "And you shall provide a ⁸lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt offering to the LORD daily; ⁹morning by morning you shall provide it.

14 "Also you shall provide a grain offering with it morning by morning, a ¹⁰sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil to moisten the fine flour, a grain offering to the LORD continually by a perpetual ordinance.

15 "Thus they shall provide the lamb, the grain offering and the oil, morning by morning, for a ¹¹continual burnt offering."

16 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "If the prince gives a ¹²gift out of his inheritance to any of his sons, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance.

17 "But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the ¹³year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince. His inheritance shall be only his sons'; it shall belong to them.

18 "The prince shall ¹⁴not take from the people's inheritance, ¹⁵thrusting them out of their possession; he shall give his sons inheritance from his own possession so that My people will not be scattered, anyone from his possession.""'

The Boiling Places

19 Then he brought me through the ¹⁶entrance, which was at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers for the priests, which faced north; and behold, there was a place at the extreme rear toward the west.

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Ezekiel 46:9-19 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 46

This chapter treats of the shutting of the eastern gate of the inner court on working days, and opening it on sabbaths and new moons, for the prince and people to worship in, Eze 46:1-3, gives a further account of the sacrifices of both at these seasons, and of their different ways of going in and out, Eze 46:4-15, delivers some rules about the prince's disposing of his gifts to his sons and servants, Eze 46:16-18 and describes the places for the priest's baking and boiling the sacrifices, Eze 46:19-24.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 16

1. Exodus 34:23; Psalms 84:7; Micah 6:6
2. 2 Samuel 6:14, 15; 1 Chronicles 29:20, 22; 2 Chronicles 6:3; 2 Chronicles 7:4; Psalms 42:4
3. Ezekiel 45:17
4. Ezekiel 46:5, 7
5. Leviticus 23:38; 2 Chronicles 29:31
6. Ezekiel 44:3; Ezekiel 46:1, 2, 8
7. Ezekiel 45:17
8. Numbers 28:3-5
9. Isaiah 50:4
10. Numbers 28:5
11. Exodus 29:42; Numbers 28:6
12. 2 Chronicles 21:3
13. Leviticus 25:10
14. Ezekiel 45:8
15. 1 Kings 21:19; Ezekiel 22:27; Micah 2:1, 2
16. Ezekiel 42:9; Ezekiel 44:5

Footnotes 9

[a]. Lit "He shall not"
[b]. So with many mss and the ancient versions; M.T. "they"
[c]. Lit "for"
[d]. Lit "for"
[e]. Lit "for"
[f]. Lit "a gift of his hand"
[g]. Lit "for"
[h]. Lit "statute"
[i]. Lit "oppressing"