Ezekiel 45:7-17

7 “Two special sections of land will be set apart for the prince. One section will share a border with the east side of the sacred lands and city, and the second section will share a border on the west side. Then the far eastern and western borders of the prince’s lands will line up with the eastern and western boundaries of the tribal areas.

8 These sections of land will be the prince’s allotment. Then my princes will no longer oppress and rob my people; they will assign the rest of the land to the people, giving an allotment to each tribe.

9 “For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Enough, you princes of Israel! Stop your violence and oppression and do what is just and right. Quit robbing and cheating my people out of their land. Stop expelling them from their homes, says the Sovereign LORD .

10 Use only honest weights and scales and honest measures, both dry and liquid.

11 The homer will be your standard unit for measuring volume. The ephah and the bath will each measure one-tenth of a homer.

12 The standard unit for weight will be the silver shekel. One shekel will consist of twenty gerahs, and sixty shekels will be equal to one mina.

13 “You must give this tax to the prince: one bushel of wheat or barley for every 60 you harvest,

14 one percent of your olive oil,

15 and one sheep or goat for every 200 in your flocks in Israel. These will be the grain offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings that will make atonement for the people who bring them, says the Sovereign LORD .

16 All the people of Israel must join in bringing these offerings to the prince.

17 The prince will be required to provide offerings that are given at the religious festivals, the new moon celebrations, the Sabbath days, and all other similar occasions. He will provide the sin offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, liquid offerings, and peace offerings to purify the people of Israel, making them right with the LORD .

Ezekiel 45:7-17 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.

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew Use honest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath.
• [b]. The homer measures about 50 gallons or 220 liters.
• [c]. The ephah is a dry measure; the bath is a liquid measure.
• [d]. The shekel weighs about 0.4 ounces or 11 grams.
• [e]. Elsewhere the mina is equated to 50 shekels.
• [f]. Hebrew of an ephah from each homer of wheat and of an ephah from each homer of barley.
• [g]. Hebrew the portion of oil, measured by the bath, is of a bath from each cor, which consists of 10 baths or 1 homer, for 10 baths are equivalent to a homer.
• [h]. Or to make atonement for the people of Israel.