Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Ezekiel 44:8
Have not kept — You have not observed the laws I gave you for the keeping of my holy things, house, sacrifices, and worship. Have set — You have substituted others in your rooms.
Have not kept — You have not observed the laws I gave you for the keeping of my holy things, house, sacrifices, and worship. Have set — You have substituted others in your rooms.
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...
YE HAVE NOT KEPT, &c. See Ezekiel 40:46, &c. HOLY. See note on Exodus 3:5. YOURSELVES: i.e. your own pleasure....
_ye have set keepers_ Some would read: ye have _set them_keepers. This of course is the meaning. The change is hardly supported by LXX (as Well. p. 122)....
BUT YE HAVE SET KEEPERS— _And you make those who minister in my sanctuary, your own ministers._ Houbigant....
_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 ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves. BUT YE HAVE SET KEEPERS OF MY CHARGE IN MY SANCTUARY FOR YOURSELVES - such...
44:8 things, (f-11) Or 'of my sanctuary,' but the word here is _ kodesh_ , as ver. 13; ch. 42.13. 'Sanctuary' here is _ mikdash_ ; see Exodus 25:8 ....
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...
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...
A terrible thing had happened in *Israel. God had specially chosen the people in *Israel. He separated them from the other nations. He gave them his law. And he gave them his promises. But the people...
FOR YOURSELVES. — Comp. 1 Kings 12:31....
וְ לֹ֥א שְׁמַרְתֶּ֖ם מִשְׁמֶ֣רֶת קָדָשָׁ֑י וַ...
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...
And ye have not kept the (c) charge of my holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves. (c) You have not offered to me according to my Law....
_Yourselves, out of ambition, contrary to the regulations of David. (Calmet)_...
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...
AND YE HAVE NOT KEPT THE CHARGE OF MINE HOLY THINGS,.... That is, have not kept and retained the holy doctrines of the Gospel; nor observed the holy ordinances of it, as they were first delivered: BU...
And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves. Ver. 8. _For yourselves._] _Pro vestro arbitratu, non pro mea voluntate; _ as...
_Then he brought me by the way of the north gate of the house _ The east gate being shut. _And, behold, the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord_ As appeared by the light which shone through...
And ye have not kept the charge of Mine holy things, in treating the appointments of the Temple without the reverence which He demands; BUT YE HAVE SET KEEPERS OF MY CHARGE IN MY SANCTUARY FOR YOURSEL...
THE STATUS OF THE PRINCE, THE LEVITES, AND THE PRIESTS...
CHARGE: Or, ward, or ordinance. And so verse 14. and 16...
You have not observed the laws I gave you for the careful and exact keeping of my holy things; house, sacrifices, and worship. You have substituted others in your rooms, made officials, and surrogates...
Ezekiel 44:8 kept H8104 (H8804) charge H4931 things H6944 set H7760 (H8799) keep H8104 (H8802) charge...
“And you shall say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh, O you house of Israel, let all your abominations be sufficient for you, in that you have brought foreigner...
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...
_In that ye have brought into My sanctuary strangers._ THE RELATION OF THE STRANGER TO THE SERVICE OF THE TEMPLE What is reprobated is not of course allowing foreigners to present sacrifices to Jehov...
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 23:32; 1 Timothy 6:13; 2 Timothy 4:1; Acts 7:53;...