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Ezekiel 44:1-16
The Status of the Prince, the Levites, and the Priests
The Status of the Prince, the Levites, and the Priests
CHAPTER XLIV _This chapter gives an account of the glory of God having_ _returned to the temple_, 14. _The Jews reproved for suffering idolatrous priests to pollute_ _it with their ministrations_,...
OUTWARD SANCTUARY - The court of the priests, as distinguished from the temple itself. This gate was reserved for the prince, to whom it was opened on certain days. Only a prince of the house of David...
CHAPTER 44 _ 1. The outward eastern gate for the prince (Ezekiel 44:1) _ 2. The charge concerning the strangers and the rebellious tribes (Ezekiel 44:4) 3. The charge concerning the priests, the so...
EZEKIEL 44-46. THE TEMPLE OFFICERS AND FESTIVALS. Ezekiel 44:1. From the inner court where he had seen the Divine glory and heard the mysterious voice (435f.) the prophet was led back to the outer ea...
THE GATE OF THE OUTWARD SANCTUARY. the outer gate of the sanctuary....
Ordinances regarding the Temple These ordinances define who shall minister in it, priests and Levites (ch. 44); the revenue of the priests, the Levites and the prince, with the duties devolving on th...
B. The Ministers of Worship: The Priests 44:1-45:8 After briefly discussing the relationship of the prince to the sanctuary (Ezekiel 44:1-3), Ezekiel speaks of the qualifications of the temple ministe...
__ Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut. _ No JFB commentary on this verse._...
The three outer gates of the *temple were alike. But the outer east gate had the most important position. It was in front of the inner east gate. The inner east gate was in front of the *altar for *sa...
EZEKIEL’S LAST *VISION EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _COMMENTARY: KEITH SIMONS; TRANSLATION: IAN MACKERVOY._ CHAPTER 44 THE EAST GATE – EZEKIEL 44:1-3 V1 Then the man brought me back to the outer...
XLIV. The altar being consecrated, the next thing is to provide for the purity of the worship of which it is the centre. The pollutions of former times had been largely introduced by the princes, and...
וַ יָּ֣שֶׁב אֹתִ֗י דֶּ֣רֶךְ שַׁ֤עַר הַ מִּקְד
THE PRIESTHOOD Ezekiel 44:1 IN the last chapter we saw how the principle of holiness through separation was exhibited in the plan of a new Temple, round which the Theocracy of the future was to be co...
The next section described the service of the new Temple. It commenced with the command that the eastern gate, through which Jehovah entered, must be kept closed, and that no man should be allowed to...
CONTENTS The subject is still continued, and advancing in sublimity. Here is great honour shown to the Prince, whose entrance through the East gate forbad all others from so doing, to notify his glor...
Surely there is in those verses so plain an allusion to the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, that it is hardly possible for any to mistake it, or make application to any other. And not only to his per...
Chapter 44 makes known the fact that Jehovah is returned to His house, and the memorial of His having done so is preserved in that the door by which He entered is to remain for ever shut. The Prince a...
THEN HE BROUGHT ME BACK THE WAY OF THE GATE OF THE OUTWARD SANCTUARY,.... The prophet was brought by his divine guide, from the altar of burnt offerings, which stood before the house, where he had giv...
Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it [was] shut. Ver. 1. _Then he brought me back._] From the east gate, which was found shut, to...
_Then he brought me back_, &c. From the altar to the gate belonging to the court of the priests, and leading to the outward court of the temple. All the courts were reckoned holy ground, and called so...
EZEKIEL CHAPTER 44 The east gate assigned only to the prince, EZEKIEL 44:1. The people reproved for steering strangers to pollute the sanctuary, EZEKIEL 44:4. Idolaters declared incapable of the pries...
Ezekiel 44:1 back H7725 (H8686) outer H1870 H2435 gate H8179 sanctuary H4720 faces H6437 (H8802) east...
THE PERMANENT CLOSING OF THE EAST GATE OF THE HEAVENLY TEMPLE (EZEKIEL 44:1). ‘Then he brought me back the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary which looks towards the east, and it was shut. And Ya...
CONTENTS: Gate for the prince. God's glory filling the temple. The priests. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, sons of Zadok, prince. CONCLUSION: In the great temple of Jehovah in the kingdom age, Israel sha...
Ezekiel 44:5. _Mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears._ Every thing seen in this vision of the temple, adumbrates celestial glory, and therefore demanded the most profound att...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 44:1 The main east gate of the temple is significant on many levels (see Ezekiel 43:1). Ezekiel is taken back to the outer court to see the main east gate closed. It will no lo
THE RELATION OF PRINCE AND PRIESTS TO THE TEMPLE (Chap. 44) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 44:1. “THE GATE OF THE OUTWARD SANCTUARY”—the court of the priests as distinguished from the Temple itself. “THIS...
EXPOSITION The prophet, having finished his account of the temple, or place of worship, proceeds, in the second section of his vision (Ezekiel 44-46.), to set forth the culture, or ritual, to be perfo...
CHAPTER 44. ORDINANCES FOR THE PRINCE AND THE PRIESTHOOD. Ezekiel 44:1. _And he brought me again by the way of the outer gate of the sanctuary, that looks toward the east, and it was shut._ Ezekiel...
Now as we get to chapter 44, we come to a prophecy that is so often misinterpreted. And I must confess to you that I have often misinterpreted this prophecy. And as I read it more carefully and have r...
2 Chronicles 20:5; 2 Chronicles 33:5; 2 Chronicles 4:9; Acts 21:28;...