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Ezekiel 44:11
God gives a list of their duties. These are necessary tasks in the *temple. But they are humble tasks. They are the tasks of servants.
God gives a list of their duties. These are necessary tasks in the *temple. But they are humble tasks. They are the tasks of servants.
Admonition to the ministering priests, grounded upon former neglect. Ezekiel 44:4 THE NORTH GATE BEFORE THE HOUSE - The north gate of the inner court. God expostulates with His people in the seat of...
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...
THE LEVITES. The regulations that follow are among the most important in the book, and they have played a great part in the critical rearrangement of OT literature and the consequent reconstruction of...
YET. Refers to the portion of service reserved for these Levites. FOR THE PEOPLE i.e. the Nation. See note on ordinances", Ezekiel 43:18. THEY SHALL STAND. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 10:8)....
Such services shall not be performed by foreigners any more, but by the Levites who formerly ministered at the high-places. Because of their sin in leading the house of Israel astray they shall bear t...
The verse is closely connected with Ezekiel 44:10 (note on Ezekiel 44:10). The services which the Levites shall be allowed to perform are such as having charge of the gates, slaying the burnt-offering...
_2. The qualifications of the temple ministers (44:4-14_) TRANSLATION (4) Then he brought me by the way of the north gate before the house; and I looked, and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the...
And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity. the Levites that are gone away far from...
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...
וְ הָי֤וּ בְ מִקְדָּשִׁי֙ מְשָׁ֣רְתִ֔ים פְּקֻדֹּות֙...
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...
_Slay. Levites might do this, but the priests poured the blood round the altar, ver. 15. They could not well slay all the victims._...
Here are very important commissions given to the Prophet to deliver to the people, all which are plain and express, and in which we find the sacred jealousy the Lord hath for his holy name and ordinan...
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...
YET THEY SHALL BE MINISTERS IN MY SANCTUARY,.... Though degraded from their office as priests and ministers of the word, yet being restored from their sins and errors, shall have a place in the house...
Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary, [having] charge at the gates of the house, and ministering to the house: they shall slay the burnt offering and the sacrifice for the people, and they shal...
_No stranger shall enter into my sanctuary_ To offer any sacrifice or oblation there, (see Ezekiel 44:7,) nor be suffered to go beyond the precincts appointed for proselytes. _The Levites that are gon...
Yet they shall be ministers in My Sanctuary, in charge of some minor services, HAVING CHARGE AT THE GATES OF THE HOUSE, as porters and guards, AND MINISTERING TO THE HOUSE, thereby demoted from the ra...
THE STATUS OF THE PRINCE, THE LEVITES, AND THE PRIESTS...
MINISTERS; servants, employed in the lowest and least honourable work. IN MY SANCTUARY; not the temple itself, but about the courts of it. HAVING CHARGE AT THE GATES; shall be porters to open and shut...
Ezekiel 44:11 ministers H8334 (H8764) sanctuary H4720 gatekeepers H6486 H8179 house H1004 ministers H8334 (H8764)
THE NON-ZADOKITE PRIESTS ARE TO BE EXCLUDED FROM THE INNER SANCTUARY BECAUSE OF THEIR PREVIOUS PARTICIPATION IN IDOLATRY (EZEKIEL 44:10). “But the Levites who went far from me when Israel went astray,...
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...
_No stranger, uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into My sanctuary._ GOD’S CARE OF HIS ALTAR Is not this rather severe upon the stranger? The injunction does not rest upo...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 44:10 The LEVITES are gatekeepers and temple attendants. These are suitable roles for a class of priests who had previously failed in their sacred duties (v....
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...
1 Chronicles 26:1; 2 Chronicles 29:34; 2 Chronicles 30:17; 2 Chronicles 35:10;...
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. T...