Ezekiel 45:18 to Ezekiel 46:24. The offerings to be made at the feasts and other appointed seasons (1) Ezekiel 45:18-25. Offerings at the feasts. (2) Ezekiel 46:1-11. Offerings for the sabbaths and new moons. (3) Ezekiel 45:12. Voluntary offerings of the prince. (4) Ezekiel 45:13. The daily burn... [ Continue Reading ]
Ezekiel 46:1-7. Offerings for the Sabbath and new moon The prince was under obligation, besides providing for the great festivals of unleavened bread or passover and tabernacles (Ezekiel 45:21; Ezekiel 45:25), and for the special new moons in the first and seventh months (Ezekiel 45:18; Ezekiel 45:... [ Continue Reading ]
_porch of_that _gate without_ PORCH OF THE GATE WITHOUT. It is difficult to decide whether "without" describes porch or gate. If porch, then the porch of the inner gate is meant, which lay "without," i.e. towards the outer court (Ezekiel 40:31; Ezekiel 40:34; Ezekiel 40:37). If "without" refers to g... [ Continue Reading ]
On the sabbath the burnt-offering shall be six lambs and a ram, and the meal-offering an ephah of flour for the ram and what the prince thinks good for the lambs; and the libation a hin of oil.... [ Continue Reading ]
For the new moons the burnt-offering shall be a young bullock, and the same meal-offering and libation as for the sabbath.... [ Continue Reading ]
The gates by which prince and people shall come in and go out. The prince shall come in by way of the porch of the gate, and shall go out the same way, i.e. probably the porch of the inner east gate, and he shall go back as he entered, without passing into the inner court. The people shall not go ou... [ Continue Reading ]
_shall so forth_ Go must be read, the prince being subject. Heb. text reads: _when they go forth they shall go forth_(i.e. prince and people; R.V. to make this plain supplies _together_). This is a very unnatural reading. Read in either way the words mean that the prince and people come in and go ou... [ Continue Reading ]
General regulation in regard to the meal-offering, it shall be the same both at the feasts proper (Ezekiel 45:21; Ezekiel 45:25) and at the solemnities or stated seasons, such as new moons, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
Regulation when the prince presents a free-will offering. The east (inner) gate shall be opened for him on such occasions as on the sabbaths and new moons. Cf. Leviticus 7:16; Ezekiel 33:28; Numbers 15:3; Numbers 29:39; Deuteronomy 12:6; Amos 4:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
The daily offering There shall be a daily offering, a lamb for a burnt-offering, with one-sixth of an ephah of flour and the third part of a hin of oil for a meal-offering. This shall be presented every morning. In earlier times the daily offering in practice appears to have been a burnt-offering i... [ Continue Reading ]
_thou shalt … prepare_ LXX. _he shall_prepare; so Ezekiel 46:14. Cf. Ezekiel 45:17.... [ Continue Reading ]
_to temper_ Probably as R.V. TO MOISTEN, or, besprinkle the fine flour. Song of Solomon 5:2, _drops_of the night.... [ Continue Reading ]
Case of the prince alienating any part of his landed property to his sons or servants If given to his sons the gift shall remain with them as their inheritance (Ezekiel 46:16); if given to any of his servants it shall revert to the prince at the year of liberty (Ezekiel 46:17).... [ Continue Reading ]
_year of liberty_ In Jeremiah 34:14 the year of liberty is that of the freeing of the bondservant in the seventh year; and this year may be meant here. Cf. Isaiah 61:1. Otherwise the year of Jubilee, the fiftieth year, is referred to, when all landed property that had been alienated reverted to its... [ Continue Reading ]
_through the entry_ the _entrance way_, viz. that mentioned Ezekiel 42:9. Since Ezekiel 44:4 the prophet had been before the house. The holy chambers are those described, Ezekiel 42:1-14. _a place on the two sides_ A PLACE IN THE INNERMOST PART WESTWARD; i.e. at the western extremity of the court.... [ Continue Reading ]
The kitchens for the priests (Ezekiel 46:19), and people (Ezekiel 46:21) The kitchens for cooking the sin and trespass offering and baking the meal-offering, the holy things to be consumed by the priests (Ezekiel 44:29), were situated in the inner court at the furthest part of the court westward, t... [ Continue Reading ]
The kitchens for cooking the sacrificial meals of the people. These were situated in the four corners of the outer court. In each of the four corners was a small enclosure or court 40 cubits long and 30 broad (Ezekiel 46:21); and in these were situated the kitchens, where the "ministers of the house... [ Continue Reading ]
_courts joined_ The term "joined" is obscure, not occurring elsewhere. Possibly: enclosed courts. LXX. appears to have read: _small_(the words differ in one letter). _these four corners_ lit. _the four of them had one measure_, they being _in the corners_. The word in the corners, or, cornered, is... [ Continue Reading ]
The description is brief. The "row" is probably not a series of separate buildings running round the court, but a continuous course of building, in which at the bottom ("under" the row) were recesses in which were the hearths where the pots were set in which the sacrifices were cooked. The hearth us... [ Continue Reading ]
The "ministers" are the subordinate officials the Levites.... [ Continue Reading ]