This verse emphasises the serious nature of the *sin. God had to take strong action. He had to act against these *Levites. So God ‘lifted his hand’. That means that he made a serious promise. (Compare chapter 20.)
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...
CAUSED, &c,. were to the house of Israel for. stumblingblock of iniquity. SAITH THE LORD GOD. [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle....
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...
_caused … to fall … iniquity_ lit. as marg.: _were a stumbling-block of iniquity unto_. Ch. Ezekiel 7:19; Ezekiel 14:3-4; Ezekiel 18:30. On "idols,...
_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...
Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear t...
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...
יַ֗עַן אֲשֶׁ֨ר יְשָׁרְת֤וּ אֹותָם֙ לִ פְנֵ֣י...
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...
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...
BECAUSE THEY MINISTERED UNTO THEM BEFORE THEIR IDOLS,.... Had officiated for them in the priest's office, their idols being in the courts of the Lord at the same time; or preached unto them false doct...
_Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear...
_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...
THE STATUS OF THE PRINCE, THE LEVITES, AND THE PRIESTS...
Because they ministered unto them before their idols and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity, instead of hindering their idolatrous endeavors; THEREFORE HAVE I LIFTED UP MINE HAND AGAINST...
CAUSED...TO FALL INTO INIQUITY: _ Heb._ were for a stumbling block of iniquity unto etc....
MINISTERED; acted as priests to idols, and in the name of idolatrous worshippers sacrificed to the idols. CAUSED THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL; were first occasion of fall to some, when their example was follow...
Ezekiel 44:12 ministered H8334 (H8762) before H6440 idols H1544 house H1004 Israel H3478 fall H4383 iniquity H5771
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 Samuel 2:29; 1 Samuel 2:30; 2 Kings 16:10; Amos 8:7; Deuterono
Iniquity — The punishment of it....