Ezekiel 44:2

Shall not be opened — Shall not ordinarily stand open. No man — None of the common people. The Lord — That glory which was the visible sign of his presence.... [ Continue Reading ]

Ezekiel 44:3

He — The king might sit before the Lord, others might not. Bread — That part of the sacrifice, which was allowed to the offerer.... [ Continue Reading ]

Ezekiel 44:5

The entering — The persons who may, and who may not enter. The sanctuary — Taken here for the courts, rather than the house itself.... [ Continue Reading ]

Ezekiel 44:7

Bread — Either the meal — offering or first — fruits of corn and dough, and the shew — bread. They — The whole nation of the Jews.... [ Continue Reading ]

Ezekiel 44:8

Have not kept — You have not observed the laws I gave you for the keeping of my holy things, house, sacrifices, and worship. Have set — You have substituted others in your rooms.... [ Continue Reading ]

Ezekiel 44:11

Ministers — Servants employed in the lowest work. Sanctuary — Not the temple itself, but about the courts of it. Having charge — They shall be porters to open and shut, and sweep, and go on errands. To minister — To wait on the priests.... [ Continue Reading ]

Ezekiel 44:16

Into my sanctuary — Both to the altar, to the temple, and the high — priest into the holy of holies. Come near — To set the shew — bread on, and to take it off. To minister — To offer sacrifice at the altar, and incense in the house. God will put marks of honour upon those who are faithful to him in... [ Continue Reading ]

Ezekiel 44:20

To grow long — Priding themselves in it, as Absalom. Shall only poll — When the hair is grown, they shall cut the ends of their hair, and keep it in moderate size.... [ Continue Reading ]

Ezekiel 44:21

Drink wine — Or any other strong liquor, when they go either to trim the lamps or set the shew — bread in order, or to offer incense in the temple, or when they go to the altar to offer a sacrifice, which stood in the inner court.... [ Continue Reading ]

Ezekiel 44:26

Cleansed — After for seven days he hath kept from the dead. They — The priests, who are about the house of God, shall appoint seven days more to this defiled person for his cleansing before he is admitted into the sanctuary.... [ Continue Reading ]

Ezekiel 44:28

It — The sin — offering: but under this one, all other offerings are couched. For an inheritance — Instead of lands and cities.... [ Continue Reading ]

Ezekiel 44:30

And the first — So soon as the first — fruits are ripe in the field, your vineyards, and olive yards. Every oblation — Whether free — will offering, or prescribed. The first of your dough — 'Tis conceived this was of every mass of dough they made, and of the first of the dough, which every year they... [ Continue Reading ]

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