Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 45:10
A general exhortation to honesty, expressed by true weights and measures (marginal references). This fitly introduces the strict regulation of quantities in the prescribed offerings.
A general exhortation to honesty, expressed by true weights and measures (marginal references). This fitly introduces the strict regulation of quantities in the prescribed offerings.
Verse Ezekiel 45:10. _YE SHALL HAVE JUST BALANCES_] This appreciation of _weights, measures_, and _money_ was intended to show them that they must not introduce those to which they had been accustomed...
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...
THE PRINCE. (_His duties and rights._) The ominous allusion in Ezekiel 45:8 to the oppression of Israel by her kings in the past leads Ezekiel to an earnest exhortation to have done with injustice and...
YE SHALL HAVE, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 19:36). ephah. See App-51., bath. See App-51....
Cf. Leviticus 19:35-36; Deuteronomy 25:13-15; Micah 6:10-11 (the accursed scanty ephah); Proverbs 11:1;...
The dues to be given the prince, and his obligations to provide the materials for the ritual. Ezekiel 45:9 _seq_. The former unjust and irregular exactions of the princes shall cease. These exactions...
_1. The rights and duties of the prince (45:9-17_) TRANSLATION (9) Thus says the Lord GOD: Let it suffice you, O prince of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; ta...
_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...
THE EPHAH (dry measure) and the bath (liquid measure) were each the tenth of an homer....
THE PRINCE'S DUES AND OBLIGATIONS The oppressive exactions of the former rulers were to be unknown in the restored Israel. Weights and measures were to be just and correct. The prince was to receive...
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...
False measurements were a frequent *sin in *Israel (Micah 6:11). The true standards come from God (Proverbs 16:11). He is angry when traders cheat their customers. But these rules were not just for tr...
מֹֽאזְנֵי ־צֶ֧דֶק וְ אֵֽיפַת ־צֶ֛דֶק וּ בַת
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...
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...
Ye shall have just balances, and a just (c) ephah, and a just bath. (c) Ephah and Bath are the same quantity save that an Ephah is a dry measure and a Bath liquid, (Leviticus 5:11; 1 Kings 5:11)....
Here are, precepts adapted to those that minister in the departments of justice, suited to Israel at all times, and upon all occasions. If the Reader wishes to know the proportion to our standard, in...
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...
YE SHALL HAVE JUST BALANCES,.... That is, take care that true weights and just measures be used in trade and commerce, that so one man may not impose upon and cheat another; which is the business of t...
Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. Ver. 10. _Ye shall have just balances._] Lev 19:35-36 Proverbs 11:1; Proverbs 16:11; Proverbs 20:10; Pro 20:23...
_Let it suffice, O ye princes of Israel_ This is a reproof of the oppressions of the former kings and their chief officers. The title of _princes of Israel_ is to be understood of such princes as the...
Ye shall have just balances, for weighing, AND A JUST EPHAH, for dry measure, AND A JUST HATH, a correct measure also for liquids....
THE PORTION OF THE PEOPLE...
YE; princes of Israel. SHALL HAVE: though they were not traders to use, yet they must have, i.e. appoint, for to them as a privilege it appertains to appoint standards for measure among their subjects...
Ezekiel 45:10 honest H6664 scales H3976 honest H6664 ephah H374 honest H6664 bath H1324...
GOD'S WORD TO THE PRINCES OF ISRAEL (EZEKIEL 45:9). The Need For The Prince To Ensure Justice and Fair Weights and Measures. ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh, “Let it be enough for you, O princes of Israel...
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...
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...
_Ye shall have Just balances._ GOD REQUIRES JUST DEALINGS That our consciences may be enlightened and set right, we want a standard, like the standard weights and measures that are kept in the Tower...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 45:9 The direction to the prince to be content with the land he owns inspires a sharp criticism in v. Ezekiel 45:9, and a call to exercise justice and
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...
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...
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...
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...
Amos 8:4; Leviticus 19:35; Leviticus 19:36; Micah 6:10; Micah 6:11;...