Ezekiel 44:13 is closely connected with Ezekiel 44:12 … bear their iniquity, and they shall not come near unto me.
in the most holyplace] Rather: unto the things that are most holy. The words are in apposition with "my holy things."
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...
NOT COME NEAR UNTO ME. This is to be the punishment in the coming future order. A PRIEST. See note on Ezekiel 43:19. MOST HOLY PLACE. holy of holies....
AND THEY SHALL NOT— _For they shall not._...
_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...
44:13 things, (a-27) holy; (a-32) _ Kodesh_ ; also 'sanctuary,' chs. 41.21,23; 42.14; 45.2. see ver. 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...
These *Levites must never enter the *temple building. They must not offer the most sacred types of *sacrifices. They must not behave like priests. They must behave like servants who carry out their du...
וְ לֹֽא ־יִגְּשׁ֤וּ אֵלַי֙ לְ כַהֵ֣ן לִ֔י
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...
AND THEY SHALL NOT COME NEAR UNTO ME, TO DO THE OFFICE OF PRIEST UNTO ME,.... To bring the sacrifice to the altar, and offer it there; to sprinkle the blood, or burn the fat, or the incense; to interc...
_And they shall not come near unto me, to do the office of a priest unto me, nor to come near to any of my holy things, in the most holy [place]: but they shall bear their shame, and their abomination...
_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...
And they shall not come near unto Me to do the office of a priest unto Me, nor to come near to any of My holy things, the appointments used in the service of the Sanctuary, in the Most Holy Place, but...
THE STATUS OF THE PRINCE, THE LEVITES, AND THE PRIESTS...
They shall never be admitted to the office, nor employed in the proper work of a priest that ministers to me. They shall not come into the temple, much less into the oracle, nor have any part in the o...
Ezekiel 44:13 near H5066 (H8799) priest H3547 (H8763) near H5066 (H8800) things H6944 Holy H6944 bear...
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...
2 Kings 23:9; Ezekiel 32:20; Ezekiel 36:7; Numbers 18:3...
Shall bear their shame — They shall be dealt with according to their abominations, and bear the punishment thereof....