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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...
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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...
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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...
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CAUSED, &c,. were to the house of Israel for. stumblingblock of
iniquity.
SAITH THE LORD GOD. [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle....
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_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,...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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יַ֗עַן אֲשֶׁ֨ר יְשָׁרְת֤וּ אֹותָם֙ לִ
פְנֵ֣י...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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_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...
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CAUSED...TO FALL INTO INIQUITY:
_ Heb._ were for a stumbling block of iniquity unto etc....
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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...
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Ezekiel 44:12 ministered H8334 (H8762) before H6440 idols H1544 house
H1004 Israel H3478 fall H4383 iniquity H5771
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 2:29; 1 Samuel 2:30; 2 Kings 16:10; Amos 8:7; Deuterono
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Iniquity — The punishment of it....