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Ezekiel Chapter Forty-five                            

 

Ezekiel 45

Chapter Summary

In the period here foretold the worship and the ministers of God will be provided for; the princes will rule with justice as holding their power under Christ; the people will live in peace ease and godliness. These things seem to be represented in language taken from the customs of the times in which the prophet wrote. Christ is our Passover that is sacrificed for us: we celebrate the memorial of that sacrifice and feast upon it triumphing in our deliverance out of the Egyptian slavery of sin and our preservation from the destroying sword of Divine justice in the Lord's supper which is our passover feast; as the whole Christian life is and must be the feast of the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

── Matthew HenryConcise Commentary on Ezekiel

 

Ezekiel 45

Verse 2

[2] Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length with five hundred in breadth square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.

Of this — Whole portion of twenty five thousand cubits long or twelve miles and half and ten thousand broad or five miles and a little more.

For the sanctuary — For a platform for the sanctuary both house and court.

Verse 3

[3] And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place.

And in it — In the center of this.

Verse 6

[6] And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad and five and twenty thousand long over against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

The possession — Land to be a possession to the citizens of Jerusalem and to be the content of the city.

Broad — About two miles and half broad and twelve miles and half long.

Long — This must run along parallel in length with the holy portion though but half its breadth.

For the whole house — As the capital city to which the tribe's resort it must be large enough to entertain them.

Verse 7

[7] And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other side of the oblation of the holy portion and of the possession of the city before the oblation of the holy portion and before the possession of the city from the west side westward and from the east side eastward: and the length shall be over against one of the portions from the west border unto the east border.

The prince — The king.

Our side — One half of the prince's portion lay on the west side of those three already set out.

The other side — The other half lay on the east-side thereof so the portion of the city Levites and priests lay in the middle.

The holy portion — Of priests and Levites and sanctuary.

Before — It lay parallel as broad as these three were broad and so run on both sides in its breadth from north to south and had its length as the other from east to west.

Over against — What is called now over-against or by the side is called before three times together. So now you have an exact square of twenty-five thousand cubits laid out for God the Levites and city which appears thus in the breadth. 10000 For the priests. 10000 For the Levites. 5000 For the city. And the length of each twenty-five thousand that is twelve miles and half square.

Verse 9

[9] Thus saith the Lord GOD; Let it suffice you O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil and execute judgment and justice take away your exactions from my people saith the Lord GOD.

Let it suffice — Be content aim not at more.

Verse 11

[11] The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be after the homer.

Of one measure — One shall contain as much as the other the ephah shall contain as many gallons of dry as the bath of liquid things.

An homer — Thirty bushels. So the ephah will be three bushels in dry things and the bath eight gallons in liquid things.

Verse 12

[12] And the shekel shall be twenty gerahs: twenty shekels five and twenty shekels fifteen shekels shall be your maneh.

Twenty gerahs — A gerah was one penny half-penny the shekel then was two shillings and six-pence twenty shekels was two pounds ten shillings fifteen shekels was one pound seventeen shillings and six-pence and twenty five was three pound two shillings and six-pence.

Maneh — It seems there was the small the middle and the great Maneh.

Verse 13

[13] This is the oblation that ye shall offer; the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of wheat and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah of an homer of barley:

Offer — In the daily service the morning and evening sacrifice.

Verse 14

[14] Concerning the ordinance of oil the bath of oil ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:

Bath — Which contained about twenty-four gallons.

The cor — Or homer; these were two names of the same measure.

Verse 16

[16] All the people of the land shall give this oblation for the prince in Israel.

With the prince — By a common purse of prince and people.

Verse 18

[18] Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the first month in the first day of the month thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish and cleanse the sanctuary:

Thou shalt take — Procure this the prince must do.

Verse 20

[20] And so thou shalt do the seventh day of the month for every one that erreth and for him that is simple: so shall ye reconcile the house.

For every one that erreth — For all the errors of all the house of Israel through ignorance.

For him that is simple — That is half-witted or a fool.

Reconcile — Cleanse as verse 18 which legally was defiled by those errors done in the city or courts of the house whither these persons might come.

Verse 21

[21] In the first month in the fourteenth day of the month ye shall have the passover a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

In the first month — Nisan which is part of March and part of April with us.

Verse 22

[22] And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.

Upon that day — Upon the fourteenth day on which the passover was slain.

Verse 24

[24] And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock and an ephah for a ram and an hin of oil for an ephah.

An hin — This was about one gallon and three quarters of a pint.

Verse 25

[25] In the seventh month in the fifteenth day of the month shall he do the like in the feast of the seven days according to the sin offering according to the burnt offering and according to the meat offering and according to the oil.

In the seventh month — According to their ecclesiastical account which is Tisri and answers to part of our August and September.

In the fifteenth day — On that day the feast of tabernacles began and continued seven days.

He — The prince.

In the feast of the seven days — Hence we also may learn the necessity of frequently repeating the same religious exercises. Indeed the sacrifice of atonement was offered once for all. But the sacrifice of acknowledgement that of a broken heart that of a thankful heart must be offered every day. And these spiritual sacrifices are always acceptable to God through Christ Jesus.

── John WesleyExplanatory Notes on Ezekiel

 

45 Chapter 45

 

Verses 1-25


Verse 10

Ezekiel 45:10

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 of London to which all the people in the little country villages may send up their yard measures and their pint pots and their pound weights and find out if they are just and true. (A. Maclaren D. D.)


Verse 20

Ezekiel 45:20

And so thou shalt do . . . for everyone that erreth and for him that is simple.

Provision for the erring and simple

A very touching provision is here. When the services of the newly constituted temple were in full operation and the priests were performing the usual rites in all the pomp and splendour of their ceremonial on the behalf of all righteous and godly souls there was to be special thought of the erring and simple; for these two characters a special offering was made. Perhaps the erring were too hardened and the simple too obtuse to bring an offering for themselves; but they were not forgotten. The blood of the sin-offering was to be placed on the posts of the house and on the posts of the gate of the inner court each seventh day of the month on their behalf. Whenever we draw around the altar of God whether in the home or church we should remember the erring and simple. If a family misses from its ranks one erring member its prayer and thought are more directed towards that one than to those that have not gone astray. Does not the child who is deficient in its intellect attract more loving care than those who are able to care for themselves? Should it be otherwise in God’s home? (F. B. Meyer B. A.)

──The Biblical Illustrator