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The Lord’s Portion of the Land
45:1 “‘When you allot the land as an inheritance , you will offer an allotment to the Lord , a holy portion from the land ; the length will be eight and a quarter miles and the width three and one-third miles . This entire area will be holy . 45:2 Of this area a square 875 feet by 875 feet will be designated for the sanctuary , with 87½ feet set aside for its open space round about . 45:3 From this measured area you will measure a length of eight and a quarter miles and a width of three and one-third miles ; in it will be the sanctuary , the most holy place . 45:4 It will be a holy portion of the land ; it will be for the priests , the ministers of the sanctuary who approach the Lord to minister to him. It will be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary . 45:5 An area eight and a quarter miles in length and three and one-third miles in width will be for the Levites , who minister at the temple , as the place for the cities in which they will live. 45:6 “‘Alongside the portion set apart as the holy allotment , you will allot for the city an area one and two-thirds miles wide and eight and a quarter miles long ; it will be for the whole house of Israel . 45:7 “‘For the prince there will be land on both sides of the holy allotment and the allotted city , alongside the holy allotment and the allotted city , on the west side and on the east side ; it will be comparable in length to one of the portions , from the west border to the east border 45:8 of the land . This will be his property in Israel . My princes will no longer oppress my people , but the land will be allotted to the house of Israel according to their tribes . 45:9 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says : Enough , you princes of Israel ! Put away violence and destruction , and do what is just and right . Put an end to your evictions of my people , declares the sovereign Lord . 45:10 You must use just balances , a just dry measure (an ephah ), and a just liquid measure (a bath ). 45:11 The dry and liquid measures will be the same , the bath will contain a tenth of a homer , and the ephah a tenth of a homer ; the homer will be the standard measure . 45:12 The shekel will be twenty gerahs . Sixty shekels will be a mina for you. 45:13 “‘This is the offering you must offer : a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat ; a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley , 45:14 and as the prescribed portion of olive oil , one tenth of a bath from each kor (which is ten baths or a homer , for ten baths make a homer ); 45:15 and one sheep from each flock of two hundred , from the watered places of Israel , for a grain offering , burnt offering , and peace offering , to make atonement for them, declares the sovereign Lord . 45:16 All the people of the land will contribute to this offering for the prince of Israel . 45:17 It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings , the grain offering , and the drink offering at festivals , on the new moons and Sabbaths , at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel ; he will provide the sin offering , the grain offering , the burnt offering , and the peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel . 45:18 “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says : In the first month, on the first day of the month , you must take an unblemished young bull and purify the sanctuary . 45:19 The priest will take some of the blood of the sin offering and place it on the doorpost of the temple , on the four corners of the ledge of the altar , and on the doorpost of the gate of the inner court . 45:20 This is what you must do on the seventh day of the month for anyone who sins inadvertently or through ignorance ; so you will make atonement for the temple . 45:21 “‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month , you will celebrate the Passover , and for seven days bread made without yeast will be eaten . 45:22 On that day the prince will provide for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering . 45:23 And during the seven days of the feast he will provide as a burnt offering to the Lord seven bulls and seven rams , all without blemish , on each of the seven days , and a male goat daily for a sin offering .

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  • 31:38-39 In the future, Jerusalem would undergo rebuilding for the Lord. It would be built larger than it had been before its destruction by the Babylonians. The tower of Hananel was at the northeast corner of the city (Neh. ...
  • Ezekiel ministered to the Jews in exile. He probably wrote this book for the benefit of the exiles and the other Jewish communities of his day and beyond his day. In some of his visions (e.g. chs. 8 and 11) the Lord carried t...
  • There are two major structural peculiarities that set Ezekiel off as distinctive.First, the book is a collection of prophecies arranged in almost consistent chronological order. No other prophetical book is as consistently ch...
  • Ezekiel contains a combination of several types of literature. These include proverbs, visions, parables, symbolic acts, allegories, rhetorical questions, dreams, drama, funeral dirges, history, and apocalyptic revelations."T...
  • Ezekiel began prophesying when he was 30 years old, and he had gone into captivity five years before that. Thus Ezekiel was familiar with Jeremiah's preaching and ministry. Ezekiel shows quite a bit of similarity to Jeremiah ...
  • I. Ezekiel's calling and commission chs. 1-3A. The vision of God's glory ch. 11. The setting of the vision 1:1-32. The vision proper 1:4-28B. The Lord's charge to Ezekiel chs. 2-31. The recipients of Ezekiel's ministry 2:1-52...
  • 20:39 For now the Israelites to whom Ezekiel spoke could continue to practice idolatry, not with the Lord's blessing of course, but in the future they would listen to and obey the Lord. Then they would make His name common no...
  • 24:25-26 Evidently Ezekiel was not to deliver any more prophetic messages to his fellow exiles after he made the explanation in verses 20-24 until he received word of the destruction of the temple and the capture of the remai...
  • It is appropriate that this section appears at this point in Ezekiel, between the messages announcing judgment on Judah and Jerusalem for sin (chs. 4-24) and the messages announcing future blessings for Israel (chs. 33-48). I...
  • "This last major division of the book focuses on the restoration of Israel's blessing. Israel would be judged for her sin (chaps. 1-24) as would the surrounding nations (chaps. 25-32). But Israel will not remain under judgmen...
  • Since this message is undated, it may have come to Ezekiel about the same time as the previous two in chapter 32, namely, in the last month of 585 B.C. If so, Ezekiel received it about two months after God gave him the six me...
  • "The themes of regathering as sheep and of covenant merge in Ezekiel 34:25-31. The Lord promises to make a covenant of peace with His regathered sheep."44434:25 The Lord also promised to make a covenant of peace (i.e., result...
  • This well-known apocalyptic vision of the valley of dry bones pictures the manner in which Yahweh would restore His people.473This may be the best known section of the Book of Ezekiel."Few other passages have suffered more fr...
  • This is the sixth and last message that Ezekiel received from the Lord the night before the refugees reached the exiles with the message that Jerusalem had fallen (cf. 33:21-22). It too deals with God's plans for Israel in th...
  • The Book of Ezekiel begins with a vision of God's glory (ch. 1), records the departure of God's glory (chs. 8-11), and ends with another vision of God's glory (chs. 40-48). This is the longest vision outside the Book of Revel...
  • Earlier Ezekiel hinted that there would be a future temple in the restored Promised Land (20:40; 37:24-28). Now he described it in considerable detail. Some of the detail is here to help the reader understand what the writer ...
  • 40:38-41 Ezekiel also saw a room outside each of the three inner gate complexes close to its doorway. There priests would rinse animals brought as burnt offerings.519Within each inner gate complex, in the vestibules, there we...
  • Instructions (statutes) designed to maintain holiness in the new temple follow. The Lord specified how His people were to construct the new altar to accommodate sacrifices (43:13-17) and how they were to dedicate it (43:18-27...
  • Some scholars view this section as the central one in chapters 40-48.536The altar was at the very center of the whole temple complex, and it was the centerpiece of the system of worship represented in the new temple complex.4...
  • 44:1-2 Ezekiel's guide next took him back to the east outer gate (cf. 40:6-16). The gate itself, on the east side of the gate complex, was shut and was to remain shut. The Lord told the prophet that this gate was shut because...
  • 44:15-16 The Levites from Zadok's branch of the priestly family, however, would have special privileges since Zadok and his sons had served the Lord faithfully in the past (cf. 40:46; 1 Sam. 2:35; 2 Sam. 8:17; 15:24-29; 1 Kin...
  • The Lord next gave Ezekiel directions for the division of some of the Promised Land in the future. Revelation about apportioning the rest of the land follows later (47:13-48:35). These descriptions do not coincide with any di...
  • Mention of the proper leadership of the Israelites in the Millennium led to an exhortation to Israel's leaders to practice justice and righteousness in the present and in the future.45:9 The Lord next commanded the leaders of...
  • Unlike the unfair leaders in Israel's past, the prince of the future would be faithful to the Lord and upright in his dealings with the Israelites. Messiah will be the chief ruler during the Millennium, but this prince will s...
  • 45:18-20 On the first new year's day of each year the people should offer a young bull without blemish to cleanse the accumulated sinful defilement of the sanctuary. The priest in charge was to apply some of the blood of a si...
  • 46:9 When the people living in the Promised Land came to worship on the appointed feasts (Passover and Tabernacles, cf. 45:21-25), they were to enter the outer court by either the north or south outer gate complexes. There wa...
  • 46:16-17 The prince could give a gift to any of his sons out of his own inheritance from the Lord. This gift was theirs forever. However, if he gave such a gift to one of his servants, it would revert back to him on the year ...
  • God promised Abraham that He would give a particular piece of real estate to his descendants (Gen. 12:7). Later He reiterated this promise and became more specific about its boundaries (Gen. 15:7, 18-21; 17:8; Num. 34:1-12). ...
  • 47:1 Ezekiel's guide, who appears to have been his original guide in this vision (v. 3), brought him back to the main entrance to the temple proper. Ezekiel saw water flowing to the east from under the temple threshold.565It ...
  • "There are two special areas of attention in this passage: (1) the concern that God's people occupy their full boundaries, and (2) the concern that Gentiles will have an inheritance."57447:13-14 The Lord instructed the future...
  • 48:8a South of Judah's portion would be a special territory, which would be the same size as the other tribal allotments.48:8b-12 It would include a section 25,000 cubits wide, and the temple sanctuary would stand in its cent...
  • Ackroyd, Peter R. Exile and Restoration. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1968.Alexander, Ralph H. Ezekiel. Everyman's Bible Commentary series. Chicago: Moody Press, 1976._____. "Ezekiel."In Isaiah-Ezekiel. Vol. 6 of The Expo...
  • Daniel is a book of prophecy."Among the great prophetic books of Scripture, none provides a more comprehensive and chronological prophetic view of the broad movement of history than the book of Daniel. Of the three prophetic ...
  • 1:1 Yahweh sent a message to Zerubbabel and Joshua through the prophet Haggai, though it went to all the Israelites too (vv. 2, 4). Zerubbabel was the political governor (overseer) of the Persian province of Judah who had led...
  • 14:16 The remaining former enemies of Israel who would not die would bow to the sovereignty of Yahweh (cf. 8:20-23; Isa. 2:2-4; 45:21-24; 60:4-14; Ezek. 40-48; Phil. 2:10). They would be expected to make annual pilgrimages to...
  • That another oracle is in view is clear from the question and answer format that begins this pericope, as it does the others. Verse 17 contains the question and answer, and the discussion follows in 3:1-6. The Israelites' cha...
  • There was an even more serious dimension to this problem. The Corinthians were sinning against the Lord as well as one another.11:23 What Paul taught here came ultimately from the Lord Jesus Himself. This reminder stresses th...
  • Adams, Jay. Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage in the Bible. Phillipsburg, N.J.: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1980.Andrews, J. N. "May Women Speak in Meeting?"Review and Herald. January 2, 1879. Reprinted in Advent...
  • Having explored the concept of Jesus as a faithfulhigh priest (3:1-4:14), the writer proceeded next to develop the idea that Jesus is a mercifulhigh priest in the service of God (cf. 2:17). A high priest must be faithful to G...
  • The next scenes in John's visions proved to be of conditions that will exist after the Millennium. He recorded this insight to reveal the final home of believers. There are many allusions to Isaiah 60 and 65 and Ezekiel 40-48...
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