(KJV) Ezekiel 461

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⥃The Prince’s Offerings

[1] Thus saith2 the Lord God; The gate3 of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut4 the six working5 days; but on the sabbath6 it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened. [2] And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch7 of [that] gate without, and shall stand by the post8 of the gate, and the priests9 shall prepare10 his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship11 at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate12 shall not be shut until the evening. [3] Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the Lord in the sabbaths and in the new moons.13 [4] And the burnt14 offering that the prince shall offer unto the Lord in the sabbath day [shall be] six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish. [5] And the meat15 offering [shall be] an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give16, and an hin of oil to an ephah. [6] And in the day of the new moon [it shall be] a young bullock without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without blemish. [7] And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand shall attain unto, and an hin of oil to an ephah. [8] And when the prince shall enter, he shall go17 in by the way of the porch of [that] gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.

[9] [¶]But when the people18 of the land shall come before19 the Lord in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in20 by the way of the north gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it. [10] And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.21 [11] And in the feasts22 and in the solemnities the meat23 offering shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the lambs as he is able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah. [12] Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary24 burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the Lord, [one] shall then open him25 the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did26 on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth [one] shall shut the gate. [13] Thou shalt daily27 prepare a burnt offering unto the Lord [of] a lamb of the first year28 without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning29. [14] And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth30 part of an ephah, and the third part of an hin of oil, to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a perpetual ordinance unto the Lord. [15] Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning [for] a continual31 burnt offering.

[16] Thus saith the Lord God; If the prince32 give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons’; it [shall be] their possession by inheritance. [17] But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year33 of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons’ for them. [18] Moreover the prince34 shall not take of the people’s inheritance by oppression, to thrust35 them out of their possession; [but] he shall give his sons inheritance out36 of his own possession: that my people37 be not scattered every man from his possession.

⥃The Courts for Boiling and Baking

[19] After he brought me through the entry38, which [was] at the side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which looked toward the north: and, behold, there [was] a place39 on the two sides westward. [20] Then said he unto me, This [is] the place where the priests shall boil the trespass40 offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat41 offering; that they bear [them] not out into the utter court, to sanctify42 the people. [21] Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court [there was] a court43. [22] In the four corners of the court44 [there were] courts joined45 of forty [cubits] long and thirty broad: these four corners46 [were] of one measure. [23] And [there was] a row [of building] round about in them, round about them four, and [it was] made with boiling places under the rows round about. [24] Then said he unto me, These [are] the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people. 47

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  1. Ezek 46:1, Ordinances for the prince in his worship; Ezek 46:9, and for the people; Ezek 46:16, An order for the prince’s inheritance; Ezek 46:19, The courts for boiling and baking. ↩

  2. Whether the rules for public worship here laid down were designed to be observed in those things wherein they differed from the law of Moses, in the ministrations of the second temple, is not certain. In the latter history of the Jewish church, the law of Moses only was followed, except in the corruption of following the traditions of the fathers. ↩

  3. The prophet had before observed that the east gate of the outer court was shut, and was told that it must only be opened for the prince; and now he is informed that the gate of the inner court on the east was also shut, and is to be opened only on the sabbath and new moons, till the evening. ↩

  4. Ezek 44:1-2 ↩

  5. Gen 3:19; Exod 20:9; Luke 13:14 ↩

  6. Ezek 45:17; Isa 66:23; Heb 4:9-10 ↩

  7. John 10:1-3 ↩

  8. Ezek 46:8, Ezek 44:3; 2Chr 23:13, 2Chr 34:31 ↩

  9. Col 1:28 ↩

  10. Or, "offer," as the word asah frequently denotes. The whole of this seems to intimate the constant, reverential, and exemplary attendance of kings on the pure ordinances of religion, in the approaching flourishing days of the church. ↩

  11. 1Kgs 8:22-23; 1Chr 17:16, 1Chr 29:10-12; 2Chr 6:13, 2Chr 29:29; Matt 26:39; Heb 5:7-8 ↩

  12. Ezek 46:12 ↩

  13. Luke 1:10; John 10:9; Heb 10:19-22 ↩

  14. The proportions of the burnt offerings, and also of the meat and drink offerings, are very different here form those prescribed in the Mosaic law. The meat offering, under the law, was only three tenths of an ephah to a bullock, two tenths for a ram, and one tenth for a lamb, with the fourth part of a hin of oil. Ezek 45:17; Num 28:9-10 ↩

  15. Ezek 46:7, Ezek 46:11-12, Ezek 45:24; Num 28:12 ↩

  16. Heb. the gift of his hand, Lev 14:21; Num 6:21; Deut 16:17 ↩

  17. Ezek 46:2, Ezek 44:1-3; Col 1:18 ↩

  18. This may intimate, that every thing should be regulated, in divine worship, so as to prevent disorder and interruption, and also that men should go forward and make progress in religion, and not turn their backs upon God. ↩

  19. Exod 23:14-17, Exod 34:23; Deut 16:16; Ps 84:7; Mal 4:4 ↩

  20. Ezek 1:12, Ezek 1:17; Phil 3:13-14; Heb 10:38; 2Pet 2:20-21 ↩

  21. 2Sam 6:14-19; 1Chr 29:20, 1Chr 29:22; 2Chr 6:2-4, 2Chr 7:4-5, 2Chr 20:27-28, 2Chr 29:28-29; 2Chr 34:30-31; Neh 8:8-9; Ps 42:4, Ps 122:1-4; Matt 18:20, Matt 28:20; Heb 3:6; Heb 4:14-16; Rev 2:1 ↩

  22. Lev 23:1-44; Num 15:1-41, 28:1-29:40; Deut 16:1-22 ↩

  23. Ezek 46:5, Ezek 46:7 ↩

  24. Lev 1:3, Lev 23:38; Num 29:39; 1Kgs 3:4; 1Chr 29:21; 2Chr 5:6, 2Chr 7:5-7, 2Chr 29:31; Ezra 1:4, Ezra 3:5, Ezra 6:17; Rom 12:1; Eph 5:2 ↩

  25. Ezek 46:1-2, Ezek 46:8, Ezek 44:3 ↩

  26. Ezek 45:17 ↩

  27. It is observable, that there is nothing said about the evening sacrifice, or the additional lamb, morning and evening, on the sabbath, which makes an important difference between this and the old laws; and is probably an intimation of that change in the external forms of religion which the coming of the Messiah should introduce. Exod 29:38-42; Num 28:3-8, Num 28:10; Dan 8:11-13; John 1:29; 1Pet 1:19-20; Rev 13:8 ↩

  28. Heb. a son of his year, Exod 12:5; Lev 12:6 ↩

  29. Heb. morning by morning, Ps 92:2; Isa 50:4 ↩

  30. Num 28:5 ↩

  31. Heb 7:27, Heb 9:26, Heb 10:1-10 ↩

  32. Gen 25:5-6; 2Chr 21:3; Ps 37:18; Matt 25:34; Luke 10:42; John 8:35-36; Rom 8:15-17, Rom 8:29-32; Gal 4:7 ↩

  33. That is, the year of Jubilee, called the year of liberty, because there was then a general release. All servants had their liberty; and all alienated estates returned to their former owners. Lev 25:10; Matt 25:14-29; Luke 19:25-26; Gal 4:30-31 ↩

  34. Ezek 45:8; Ps 72:2-4, Ps 78:72; Isa 11:3-4, Isa 32:1-2; Jer 23:5-6 ↩

  35. Ezek 22:27; 1Kgs 21:19; Mic 1:1-2, Mic 3:1-3 ↩

  36. Ps 68:18; John 10:28; Eph 4:8 ↩

  37. Ezek 34:3-6, Ezek 34:21 ↩

  38. This entry was at the west side of the north gate of the inner court. Ezek 40:44-46, Ezek 42:9, Ezek 44:4-5 ↩

  39. This place was at the west corners of the inner court, or court of the priests; where they prepared the most holy things, the trespass and sin offering, which none but the priests might eat; that they might not "bear them out into the utter court, to sanctify the people," that is, by touching them incapacitate them from discharging their ordinary occupations. ↩

  40. Ezek 44:29; 1Sam 2:13-15; 2Chr 35:13 ↩

  41. Lev 2:4-7, Lev 7:1-38 ↩

  42. Ezek 44:19 ↩

  43. Heb. a court in the corner of a court; and a court in a corner of a court, Ezek 46:21 ↩

  44. These court in the corners of the outer court, or court of the people, appear to have been a kind of uncovered apartments, surrounded with little chambers for the cooks, and used for dressing the peace offerings of the people. On these their families and friends feasted; and portions were sent to the poor, the widow, and the orphan; and thus the spirit of devotion preserved the spirit of mercy, charity, and benevolence, in the land. ↩

  45. or, made with chimneys ↩

  46. Heb. cornered, Ezek 46:22 ↩

  47. Ezek 46:20; Matt 24:45; John 21:15-17; 1Pet 5:2 ↩