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Ezekiel 44:28-31

The maintenance of the priest. He shall have no inheritance among the people: the Lord is his inheritance. He shall eat the meat-offering, the sin- and trespass-offering; everything put to the ban shall be his, and the best of all the first-fruits and of all the dues.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Ezekiel 44:28. _I_ AM _THEIR INHERITANCE_] Those who affect to form their ecclesiastical matters on the model of the Jewish Church have with one consent left this out of the question. They will...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Regulations as to the priests’ services. The garments of the priests are defined and various rules prescribed in the Law are repeated with some additions in order to denote additional care to avoid un...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PRIESTS. (_Their revenues._) Certain offerings are to be the perquisites of the priests, also as they are the representatives of the Deity the best of the first-fruits. Formerly the sin-offering a...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    I AM THEIR INHERITANCE. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 18:20; Deuteronomy 10:9; Deuteronomy 18:1; Deuteronomy 18:2). App-92.

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND IT SHALL BE UNTO THEM, &C.— Houbigant very properly, after the Vulgate, reads, _And they shall have no inheritance;_ agreeably to what follows....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _4. The provision for the Zadokite priests (44:28-31_) TRANSLATION (28) And they shall have an inheritance: I am their inheritance; and you shall give them no possession in Israel; I am their possess...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    AND IT SHALL BE UNTO THEM FOR AN INHERITANCE: I AM THEIR INHERITANCE: AND YE SHALL GIVE THEM NO POSSESSION IN ISRAEL: I AM THEIR POSSESSION. I am their inheritance - ( , "Thou shalt have no inherit...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PRIESTS AND THE LEVITES Standing at the inner northern gate Ezekiel again saw the glory of God filling the Temple and was again addressed by the divine voice (Ezekiel 44:4). The Speaker first rebu...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    Cp. Numbers 18:20....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The priests would not own land. But they would have something better than land. God himself would be their possession. A small farmer or gardener provides for himself by means of his land. But God wou...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I AM THEIR INHERITANCE. — This is a simple repetition of the frequent declarations in the law (Numbers 18:20; Deuteronomy 10:9; Deuteronomy 18:2); the priests were to be supported by the tithes given...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הָיְתָ֤ה לָהֶם֙ לְֽ נַחֲלָ֔ה אֲנִ֖י נַֽחֲל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _No. This is omitted in Hebrew, Septuagint, &c. God was their portion. (Calmet) --- They had no land but what lay near their cities. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I pray the Reader not to overlook the abundant grace of our adorable Jesus in what is here said, that he is the inheritance, and he is the possession of his people. Twice it is repeated in one verse;...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND IT SHALL BE UNTO THEM FOR AN INHERITANCE,.... Either the sin offering, or the priesthood, and the perquisites belonging to it: or, THEY SHALL HAVE AN INHERITANCE r; but what shall it be? God hims...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I [am] their inheritance: and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I [am] their possession. Ver. 28. _And it shall be, &c._] This that followeth s...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _It shall be unto them for an inheritance_, &c. Their ministry in my sanctuary, and the perquisites thereto belonging, shall be to them instead of lands and inheritances, of which they shall not have...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And it shall be unto them for an inheritance: I am their Inheritance; and ye shall give them no possession in Israel: I am their Possession. Cf Numbers 18:20; Deuteronomy 18:1; Deuteronomy 10:9. They...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    ORDINANCES FOR THE PRIESTS IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR DUTIES...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Sin-offering being mentioned immediately before, gives the occasion of repeating the provision made for the priests, for under this one all other offerings are couched; and if the Lord do so expressly...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 44:28 inheritance H5159 inheritance H5159 give H5414 (H8799) possession H272 Israel H3478 possession H272...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “And they will have an inheritance (literally ‘it will be to them for an inheritance'). I am their inheritance. And you will give them no property holding in Israel. I am their property holding.” The...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ONLY THE SONS OF ZADOK MAY PERFORM THE FULL PRIESTLY FUNCTIONS (EZEKIEL 44:15). “But the priests, the Levites, the sons of Zadok, who kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went a...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I am their inheritance._ GOD AN INHERITANCE We possess God as the flower the sunlight; as a babe the mother. All His resources are placed at our disposal. The seed cast into the ground immediately b...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 44:15 The privilege of serving at the altar and in the sanctuary itself BEFORE the Lord (v. Ezekiel 44:15) falls to the Zadokite priest

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 5:2; Deuteronomy 10:9; Deuteronomy 18:1; Deuteronomy 18:2;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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

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