Ezekiel 46:11

_AND IN THE FEASTS AND IN THE SOLEMNITIES THE MEAT OFFERING SHALL BE AN EPHAH TO A BULLOCK, AND EPHAH TO A RAM, AND TO THE LAMBS AS HE IS ABLE TO GIVE, AND AN HIN OF OIL TO AN EPHAH._ No JFB commentary on this verse....

EXPOSITION This chapter fails into three divisions. The first (Ezekiel 46:1) gives supplementary directions for the prince and the people of the land when engaged in solemn acts of worship; the second (Ezekiel 46:16) furnishes the prince with instructions as to how he may dispose of his portion or inheritance; the third (Ezekiel 46:19) adds particulars about the sacrificial kitchens for the priests and for the people. EZEKIEL 46:1 The supplementary directions contained in these verses relate to the worship of the prince and the people on the sabbaths and the new moons ...

AND IN THE FEASTS, AND IN THE SOLEMNITIES,.... Or, "appointed times" l; for public worship, for the ministration of the word and ordinances, which are feasts and solemn seasons; Ezekiel 45:15. Kimchi observes a difference between these two; and that though all feasts are called solemnities, or fixed seasons, Leviticus 23:4, yet there are some solemnities that are not feasts, Genesis 1:14: THE MEAT OFFERING SHALL BE AN EPHAH TO A BULLOCK, AND TO THE LAMBS AS HE IS ABLE TO GIVE, AND AN HIN OF OIL TO AN EPHAH; the same to be done on all feasts and solemnities as on the sabbath day; Ezekiel 46:5.

CHAPTER 46 _ 1. The worship of the prince (Ezekiel 46:1) _ 2. Further instruction as to worship (Ezekiel 46:9) 3. Concerning the prince, his sons and his servants (Ezekiel 46:16) 4. A final description of places in the temple (Ezekiel 46:19)...

THE SABBATH, NEW MOON, AND OTHER FESTIVALS. On the Sabbath day, seven animals, besides meal and oil, were to be offered; on the new moon the offering was the same, with the addition of a bullock. The prince, who might not enter into the sacred inner court, watched the sacrifice being offered from his place at the threshold of its eastern gate (Ezekiel 46:1). To prevent confusion the worshippers were obliged to leave the outer court by the opposite gate from that by which they had entered (Ezekiel 46:8 f.). It was the prince's duty to provide for the daily burnt offering. When, in addition to this, he made a free-will offering, the eastern gate of the inner court was opened for him, as on the Sabbath and new moon (Ezekiel

SOLEMNITIES. appointed seasons....

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 burnt-offering. (5) Ezekiel 45:16. Case

_5. THE OFFERING OF THE PRINCE ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE._ (_46:11-15_) TRANSLATION (11) And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meal-offering shall be an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs as he is able to give and a hin of oil to an ephah. (12) And when the prince shall prepare a freewill-offering, a burnt-offering or peace-offerings as a freewill-offering unto the LORD, one shall open for him the gate that looks toward the east; and he shall prepare his burnt-offering and his peace-offerings, as he does on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate. (13) And you shall prepare a lamb a year old without blemish for a burnt-offering unto the LORD daily: morning by morning you shall prepare it. (14) And you shall prepare a meal-offering with ii morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third pa...

46:11 give; (a-33) Lit. 'the gift of his hand.' see Deuteronomy 16:17 ....

THE OFFERINGS AT THE SACRED SEASONS, ETC (This whole passage should be compared with Numbers 28:29.) _(A) THE ATONEMENT FOR THE SANCTUARY (EZEKIEL 45:18)_ This was to take place twice yearly, on the first days of the first and seventh months. These two days in Ezekiel serve the same purpose as the great Day of Atonement on the tenth day of the seventh month (Leviticus 16; Numbers 29:7)....