Ezekiel 45:7-25

Portion for the Prince

7 "The ¹prince shall have land on either side of the holy allotment and the property of the city, adjacent * to the holy allotment and the property of the city, on the west side toward the west and on the east side toward the east, and in length comparable to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border.

8 "This shall be his land for a possession in Israel; so My princes shall no longer ²oppress My people, but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel ³according to their tribes."

9 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "⁴Enough, you princes of Israel; put away ⁵violence and destruction, and ⁶practice justice and righteousness. Stop your ⁷expropriations from My people," declares the Lord GOD.

10 "You shall have ⁸just balances, a just ⁹ephah and a just ¹⁰bath.

11 "The ephah and the bath shall be the same quantity, so that the bath will contain a tenth of a ¹¹homer and the ephah a tenth of a homer; their standard shall be according to the homer.

12 "The ¹²shekel shall be twenty ¹³gerahs; twenty shekels, twenty-five * shekels, and fifteen * shekels shall be your maneh.

13 "This is the offering that you shall offer: a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat; a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley;

14 and the prescribed portion of oil (namely, the bath of oil ), a tenth of a bath from each kor (which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths are a homer );

15 and one sheep from each flock of two hundred from the watering places of Israel -for a ¹⁴grain offering, for a burnt offering and for peace offerings, to ¹⁵make atonement for them," declares the Lord GOD.

16 "¹⁶All the people of the land shall give to this offering for the ¹⁷prince in Israel.

17 "It shall be the ¹⁸prince's part to provide the ¹⁹burnt offerings, the grain offerings and the drink offerings, at the ²⁰feasts, on the ²¹new moons and on the sabbaths, at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel; he shall provide the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering and the ²²peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel."

18 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "In the ²³first month, on the first of the month, you shall take a young bull ²⁴without blemish and ²⁵cleanse the sanctuary.

19 "The priest shall take some of the blood from the sin offering and put it on the door posts of the house, on the ²⁶four corners of the ²⁷ledge of the altar and on the posts of the gate of the inner court.

20 "Thus you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who goes ²⁸astray or is naive; so you shall make ²⁹atonement for the house.

21 "In the ³⁰first month, on the fourteenth * day of the month, you shall have the ³¹Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

22 "On that day the prince shall provide for himself and all the people of the land a ³²bull for a sin offering.

23 "During the ³³seven days of the feast he shall provide as a ³⁴burnt offering to the LORD ³⁵seven bulls and seven rams without blemish on every day of the seven days, and a male goat daily for a sin offering.

24 "He shall provide as a ³⁶grain offering an ephah with a bull, an ephah with a ram and a hin of oil with an ephah.

25 "In the ³⁷seventh month, on the fifteenth * day of the month, at the feast, he shall provide like this, seven days for the sin offering, the burnt offering, the grain offering and the oil."

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Ezekiel 45:7-25 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 45

This chapter treats of the division of the land in future time, and the persons and uses for which it is to be made; one part being for the sanctuary, and the priests that serve in it, and for their houses for them to dwell in, Eze 45:1-4, another for the Levites and their chambers, Eze 45:5, and another for the city, for the Israelites in common, Eze 45:6, and the last for the prince; and of the situation and extent of it, Eze 45:7,8 and of the righteous administration of civil government in the time of the spiritual reign of Christ, in abstinence from violence and exactions, and doing justice, for which orders and directions are given, Eze 45:9-12, then of the oblations of the people of the land, Eze 45:13-16, and next of those that are to be prepared by the prince, Eze 45:17, and the times of the offering of them, at the beginning of the year, on the feasts of the passover and tabernacles, Eze 45:18-25, the rules for which are so different from the Mosaic law, as show the abrogation of that; and that all this is to be understood in a spiritual and evangelic sense.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 37

1. Ezekiel 34:24; Ezekiel 37:24; Ezekiel 46:16-18; Ezekiel 48:21
2. Isaiah 11:3-5; Jeremiah 23:5; Ezekiel 19:7; Ezekiel 22:27; Ezekiel 46:18
3. Joshua 11:23
4. Ezekiel 44:6
5. Jeremiah 6:7; Ezekiel 7:11, 23; Ezekiel 8:17
6. Jeremiah 22:3; Zechariah 8:16
7. Nehemiah 5:1-5
8. Leviticus 19:36; Deuteronomy 25:15; Proverbs 16:11; Amos 8:4-6; Micah 6:10, 11
9. Isaiah 5:10
10. Isaiah 5:10
11. Isaiah 5:10
12. Exodus 30:13; Leviticus 27:25; Numbers 3:47
13. Exodus 30:13; Leviticus 27:25; Numbers 3:47
14. Ezekiel 45:17
15. Leviticus 1:4; Leviticus 6:30
16. Exodus 30:14, 15
17. Isaiah 16:1
18. Ezekiel 46:4-12
19. 1 Kings 8:64; 1 Chronicles 16:2; 2 Chronicles 31:3
20. Leviticus 23:1-44; Num 28:1-29:39
21. Isaiah 66:23
22. 1 Kings 8:63; Ezekiel 43:27
23. Exodus 12:2
24. Leviticus 22:20; Hebrews 9:14
25. Leviticus 16:16, 33; Ezekiel 43:22, 26
26. Leviticus 16:18-20; Ezekiel 43:20
27. Ezek 43:14, 17, 20
28. Leviticus 4:27; Psalms 19:12
29. Leviticus 16:20; Ezekiel 45:15, 18
30. Numbers 28:16
31. Exodus 12:1-24; Leviticus 23:5-8
32. Leviticus 4:14
33. Leviticus 23:8
34. Numbers 28:16-25
35. Numbers 23:1, 2; Job 42:8
36. Numbers 28:12-15; Ezekiel 46:5-7
37. Leviticus 23:33-43; Numbers 29:12-38; 2 Chronicles 5:3; 2 Chronicles 7:8, 10

Footnotes 14

[a]. Or "contribution"
[b]. Lit "possession"
[c]. Or "contribution"
[d]. Lit "possession"
[e]. Heb "YHWH," usually rendered LORD, and so throughout the ch
[f]. Lit "one"
[g]. Lit "its measure"
[h]. Or "mina"
[i]. Lit "be"
[j]. Lit "simple"
[k]. Lit "for"
[l]. Lit "for"
[m]. Lit "for"
[n]. Lit "according to"