EZEKIEL CHAPTER 45 The portion of land for the sanctuary, EZEKIEL 45:1, for the city, EZEKIEL 45:6, and for the prince, EZEKIEL 45:7,8. Ordinances for the prince, EZEKIEL 45:9. WHEN YE, ye returned Jews, restored to your own land, SHALL DIVIDE BY LOT: it was not on the return divided by lot, as it w... [ Continue Reading ]
OF THIS whole consecrate portion of twenty-five thousand cubits long, or twelve miles and half, and ten thousand broad, or five miles and little more. FOR THE SANCTUARY; for a platform for the sanctuary, both house and courts. FIVE HUNDRED IN LENGTH, WITH FIVE HUNDRED IN BREADTH; five hundred cubits... [ Continue Reading ]
OF, or _by_, or from this cubit measure, EZEKIEL 45:2, shalt thou measure. So express, that indeed I wonder a dispute can arise; and this justifies the French version, which from this verse no doubt took the _coudee_, which they use in EZEKIEL 45:1. IN IT, in the centre or navel of this twenty-five... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HOLY PORTION; the whole contents of twelve miles and half long, and five broad. FOR THE PRIESTS; sons of Zadok, who minister to the Lord, and others with them, who, though degraded from the priestly honour, yet lived upon priestly provision. A PLACE FOR THEIR HOUSES; in which twenty-three of twe... [ Continue Reading ]
As we render the words they are a little clouded, but as they are rendered in the French they are plainer: we read them as if the verse spake of the same twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand broad, which the priests have; but the French thus, there shall be other twenty-five thousand in length... [ Continue Reading ]
APPOINT; order and measure out. THE POSSESSION; land to be a possession to the citizens of Jerusalem, and to be the contents of the city. FIVE THOUSAND BROAD, AND FIVE AND TWENTY THOUSAND LONG; about two miles and half broad, and twelve miles and half long, measured by the cubit, as EZEKIEL 45:3 dir... [ Continue Reading ]
A PORTION; though not said how much, it is likely it was near fourfold to that of the city, sanctuary, or the priests and Levites. FOR THE PRINCE; the king, or supreme ruler. One half of the prince's portion lay on the west side of those three already set out; the other half lay on the east side the... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE LAND; either in that portion of land set out for him, or, as it is added, in Israel, i.e. in the land of Israel. MY PRINCES; who own my favour in their advancement, and my law in their government. All princes are in some sort God's princes, but all do not regard God as sovereign Lord of them... [ Continue Reading ]
Princes are here in God's name, and by advice from him he made them princes, counselled, exhorted, and commanded. LET IT SUFFICE; be content, aim not at more: he who gave no more can make this enough, and he will curse and blast what you indirectly, and by sinful, oppressive crafts, wrest from other... [ Continue Reading ]
YE; princes of Israel. SHALL HAVE: though they were not traders to use, yet they must have, i.e. appoint, for to them as a privilege it appertains to appoint standards for measure among their subjects. _Just balances_, or weights and scales, by which to measure what is to he sold by weight, one and... [ Continue Reading ]
One shall contain as much as the other, the ephah shall contain as many gallons of dry, as the bath doth contain of liquid things. AN HOMER is commonly said to be thirty bushels, or near it. So that the ephah will be some three bushels, in dry things, and the bath sixty-four pints, or eight gallons,... [ Continue Reading ]
Having laid down the standard for weight and measure in less valuable things, and that are sold for money, now the standard is set down for the current coin which passed among them, and the valuation of which was part of the prince's prerogative. The first mentioned in the text is the shekel, which,... [ Continue Reading ]
In the daily service, the morning and evening sacrifice, there must be wheat and barley flour. SIXTH PART OF AN EPHAH; sixtieth part of an homer, about one half bushel, and one peck, and one quarter of a peck, and three pints, or near it; so some. Others abate the odd measures, and say the ephah was... [ Continue Reading ]
Now forasmuch as oil was always offered with the meat-offering, here is direction what quantity shall be used at each offering. THE BATH OF OIL; which contained about twenty-four gallons, or very near it. THE TENTH PART; so the quantity of oil by this account will be two gallons, three pints, and a... [ Continue Reading ]
This verse prescribes the proportion that is to he observed in bringing the lambs for daily sacrifice. They were bound to choose out of the best pastures of Israel the best and fattest lambs, one out of two hundred; so favourable was God to them in these cattle, taking so few out of so many. And the... [ Continue Reading ]
The plain and summary meaning of this verse is, that this daily sacrifice should be, as for the people and the prince, so should it be provided by a common purse of prince and people, all should contribute to this charge. Though some think the people were to give this, and the prince to give a like... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PRINCE'S PART; beside the share he gives to the daily sacrifice in the common charge, EZEKIEL 45:16, the prince is bound also on solemnities to give sacrifices out of his own. BURNT-OFFERINGS: see LE 1, where these are described. _Meat-offerings_ rings: see LEVITICUS 2:1, &c. _Drink-offerings_:... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE FIRST MONTH of the year, every new-year's day; or the first new-year's day after the temple is built, a kind of feast of dedication: the former better agreeth with the following verses. THOU SHALT TAKE; procure, either being out of his own flock, or buy with his money; this the prince must do... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PRIEST: had the 17th and 18th verses intended by _prince_ the high priest, there would have been no need of changing the phrase, or of mentioning the _priest_, it would have been enough to have said, _And he shall_; but in those verses the bringing and preparing is not priestly, but ascribed to... [ Continue Reading ]
The priest must offer the like sacrifice for cleansing the errors of the people, and reconciling them. THE SEVENTH DAY; about a week before the passover. FOR EVERY ONE THAT ERRETH; for all the errors of all the house of Israel, in all that had erred through ignorance. FOR HIM THAT IS SIMPLE; that is... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE FIRST MONTH; Nisan, which is part of March and part of April with us. THE FOURTEENTH DAY; as was appointed of old by Moses, EXO 12 at large. YE SHALL HAVE; have, and slay, for so EXODUS 12:6. THE PASSOVER; the lamb, which was to be eaten with thanksgiving for God's sparing the Jewish children... [ Continue Reading ]
UPON THAT DAY; upon the fourteenth day, on which the passover was slain. THE PRINCE; as before, EZEKIEL 45:17,18. PREPARE FOR HIMSELF, to expiate his own sins. AND FOR ALL THE PEOPLE: see EZEKIEL 45:17, where the same is found.... [ Continue Reading ]
After the first day's offering, EZEKIEL 45:22, or else after the fifteenth day was over, though first more likely. The prince at his own charge is to get ready day by day seven bullocks, seven rams, perfect without blemish, as the law required, and one kid each day of the seven; in all forty-nine bu... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE, the prince, SHALL PREPARE A MEAT-OFFERING; for the sacrifice was not entire without this, and the text proportions this also: for each BULLOCK one EPHAH of fine flour, three bushels and one half with the seven bullocks of the first day; and so for the rams; that is, seven bushels every day f... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SEVENTH MONTH, according to their ecclesiastical account, Tisri, which answers to part of our August and September. THE FIFTEENTH DAY; on that day the feast of tabernacles began, and it continued seven days. SHALL HE, the prince, as before, EZEKIEL 45:24, do the like, in every respect, for sacri... [ Continue Reading ]