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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 45:8

Verse Ezekiel 45:8. My princes shall no more oppress my people] By exorbitant taxes to maintain profligate courts, or subsidize other powers to help to keep up a system of tyranny in the earth. The former princes even robbed the temple of God to give subsidies to other states.

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See also Ezekiel 45:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    On either side of the 25,000 reeds a strip of land, running westward to the sea, eastward to the Jordan, formed the possession of the prince (see Ezekiel 46:18 note). For the other tribes the limits f...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 45 _ 1. The portions of the priests, the Levites, of the whole house of Israel, and the prince (Ezekiel 45:1) _ 2. Concerning the prince (Ezekiel 45:9) 3. The feast of Passover and the feas...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _In the land_… _possession_ IN THE LAND IT SHALL BE TO HIM FOR A POSSESSION, lit. in respect of the land. Others: _for a domain_it shall be …, for a possession. The _art_. must then be omitted, and th...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    IN THE LAND, &C.— _This shall be his possession of land in Israel. Ezekiel 45:16. Shall give this oblation for the prince_] All the people of the land shall be obliged to give this present, or offerin...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _5. THE APPORTIONMENT OF THE SACRED PORTION OF THE LAND_ (_45:1-8_) TRANSLATION (1) Moreover, when you shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, a holy...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _IN THE LAND SHALL BE HIS POSSESSION IN ISRAEL: AND MY PRINCES SHALL NO MORE OPPRESS MY PEOPLE; AND THE REST OF THE LAND SHALL THEY GIVE TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL ACCORDING TO THEIR TRIBES._ No JFB comm...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    45:8 land (f-2) i.e. domain....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE LANDS FOR THE PRIESTS, LEVITES, PRINCE, AND CITY The division of the whole country is described in ch. 48, which includes the substance of the present passage, and shows the position of these land...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The prince in the midst of them.. shall go IN] RV 'the prince.. shall go in in the midst of them.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The prince could not own any other property. In the past, evil kings stole other people’s property (1 Kings 21:16). But this could not happen in Ezekiel’s *vision. Each *tribe had its own share of the...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EZEKIEL’S LAST *VISION EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _COMMENTARY: KEITH SIMONS; TRANSLATION: IAN MACKERVOY._ CHAPTER 45 THE *LORD’S PART OF THE COUNTRY – EZEKIEL 45:1-8 V1 ‘You will divide the cou...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    MY PRINCES SHALL NO MORE OPPRESS. — The use of the plural does not imply that more than one prince should reign at a time, nor is it intended to include the family of the prince; but as everything in...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לָ † אָ֛רֶץ יִֽהְיֶה ־לֹּ֥ו לַֽ אֲחֻזָּ֖ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    PRINCE AND PEOPLE Ezekiel 44:1; Ezekiel 45:1; Ezekiel 46:1, PASSIM IT was remarked in a previous chapter that the "prince" of the closing vision appears to occupy a less exalted position than the Mes...

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

    Seeing that the priests were to have no inheritance, the next section of the prophecy dealt fittingly with the method of their support. After the distribution of the land, a description of which follo...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Rob. Instead of their right, (1 Kings viii. 11.) the source of continual vexations, a certain revenue is specified, ver. 13._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    There is a striking difference in what is said here, between the Prince, and princes. The Prince is evidently spoken of as one particular person. Princes in the plural, differ totally from this identi...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 AND 46. The portion of the priests in the land is assigned them-close to that of the sanctuary. The portion of the Levites was to adjoin that of the priest...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    IN THE LAND SHALL BE HIS POSSESSION IN ISRAEL,.... Or, "as for the land, it shall be his for a possession in Israel" a; the people of the land shall be a people for possession, as in 1 Peter 2:9 or a...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; and [the rest of] the land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes. Ver. 8. _An...

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

    _And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side_, &c. One-half of the prince's portion was to lie on the west side of the three portions laid out for the priests and sanctuary, the Levites and...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PORTION OF THE LAND...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    In the land shall be his possession in Israel, or, "it shall be land to him for a possession in Israel"; AND MY PRINCES SHALL NO MORE OPPRESS MY PEOPLE, as had been the case with many of the former ru...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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 governme...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Ezekiel 45:8 land H776 possession H272 Israel H3478 princes H5387 oppress H3238 (H8686) people H5971 give H5414 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “And what is to belong to the prince will be on one side and on the other side of the holy gift and of the possession of the city, in front of the holy gift and the possession of the city on the west...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jehovah's portion of the land and the prince's portion. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, prince. CONCLUSION: In the kingdom age Israel will honor Jehovah with portions of land set apart for divin...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Ezekiel 45:18. _Thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary._ In the ancient tabernacle all the vessels were touched with blood, to purify and consecrate them to sacred...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 45:1 This definition of a sacred space within the wider context of renewed Israel provides a summary that will be described in greater detail in Ezekiel 48:8. Ezekiel depicts t

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE APPORTIONMENT OF TERRITORY AROUND THE TEMPLE (Chap. 45) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 45:1. “DIVIDE BY LOT”—not by casting lots, but by allotment, the several portions being assigned according to rul...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION From the sustenance of the priests (Ezekiel 44:29-26), the new Torah naturally passes in the present chapter to the maintenance of the temple service as a whole, setting forth in the first...

  • The Typology of Scripture by Patrick Fairbairn

    CHAPTER 45. THE SACRED ALLOTMENTS IN LAND AND GIFTS. Ezekiel 45:1. _And when ye shall divide the land by lot, ye shall offer an oblation to the Lord; an holy portion of the land, in length five and...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter 45 he describes here the length and all of the city, of the land itself. And it is described here as being, in length twenty-five thousand reeds, and in breadth ten thousand reeds. And...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 19:3; Ezekiel 19:7; Ezekiel 22:27; Ezekiel 46:18; Isaiah 11:3

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