Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
Thus saith 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.
the gate 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, til the evening.
shall be shut
Ezekiel 44:1,2 Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary …
six working
Genesis 3:19 In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, till you return to …
Exodus 20:9 Six days shall you labor, and do all your work:
Luke 13:14 And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because …
on the sabbath
Ezekiel 45:17 And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat …
Isaiah 66:23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and …
Hebrews 4:9,10 There remains therefore a rest to the people of God…
And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.
the porch
John 10:1-3 Truly, truly, I say to you, He that enters not by the door into the …
by the post
Ezekiel 46:8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the …
Ezekiel 44:3 It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread …
2 Chronicles 23:13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at the …
2 Chronicles 34:31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, …
the priests
Colossians 1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all …
prepare Or, `offer,' as the word {dsah} 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.
he shall worship
1 Kings 8:22,23 And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of …
1 Chronicles 17:16 And David the king came and sat before the LORD, and said, Who am …
1 Chronicles 29:10-12 Why David blessed the LORD before all the congregation: and David …
2 Chronicles 6:13 For Solomon had made a brazen scaffold of five cubits long, and five …
2 Chronicles 29:29 And when they had made an end of offering, the king and all that …
Matthew 26:39 And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, …
Hebrews 5:7,8 Who in the days of his flesh…
but the gate
Ezekiel 46:12 Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace …
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.
And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.
And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.
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.
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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.
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And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of the porch of that gate, and he shall go forth by the way thereof.
But when the people of the land shall come before the LORD in the solemn feasts, he that entereth in 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.
when the people 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.
come before
Exodus 23:14-17 Three times you shall keep a feast to me in the year…
Exodus 34:23 Thrice in the year shall all your male children appear before the …
Deuteronomy 16:16 Three times in a year shall all your males appear before the LORD …
Psalm 84:7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appears before God.
Malachi 4:4 Remember you the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him …
he that entereth in
Ezekiel 1:12,17 And they went every one straight forward: where the spirit was to …
Philippians 3:13,14 Brothers, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing …
Hebrews 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul …
2 Peter 2:20,21 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through …
And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.
2 Samuel 6:14-19 And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was …
1 Chronicles 29:20,22 And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. …
2 Chronicles 6:2-4 But I have built an house of habitation for you, and a place for …
2 Chronicles 7:4,5 Then the king and all the people offered sacrifices before the LORD…
2 Chronicles 20:27,28 Then they returned, every man of Judah and Jerusalem, and Jehoshaphat …
2 Chronicles 29:28,29 And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the …
2 Chronicles 34:30,31 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men …
Nehemiah 8:8,9 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the …
Psalm 42:4 When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had …
Psalm 122:1-4 I was glad when they said to me, Let us go into the house of the LORD…
Matthew 18:20 For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am …
Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you: …
Hebrews 3:6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we…
Hebrews 4:14-16 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into …
Revelation 2:1 To the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things said he …
And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat 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.
Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.
a voluntary
Leviticus 1:3 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a …
Leviticus 23:38 Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside …
Numbers 29:39 These things you shall do to the LORD in your set feasts, beside …
1 Kings 3:4 And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the …
1 Chronicles 29:21 And they sacrificed sacrifices to the LORD, and offered burnt offerings …
2 Chronicles 5:6 Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled …
2 Chronicles 7:5-7 And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, …
2 Chronicles 29:31 Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now you have consecrated yourselves …
Ezra 1:4 And whoever remains in any place where he sojournes, let the men …
Ezra 3:5 And afterward offered the continual burnt offering, both of the new …
Ezra 6:17 And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, …
Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you …
Ephesians 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us…
open him
Ezekiel 46:1,2,8 Thus said the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looks toward …
Ezekiel 44:3 It is for the prince; the prince, he shall sit in it to eat bread …
as he did
Ezekiel 45:17 And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat …
Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning.
Thou shalt daily It is observable, that there is nothing and about the evening sacrifice, of 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
Exodus 29:38-42 Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar; two lambs of …
Numbers 28:3-8,10 And you shall say to them, This is the offering made by fire which …
Daniel 8:11-13 Yes, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by …
John 1:29 The next day John sees Jesus coming to him, and said, Behold the …
1 Peter 1:19,20 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish …
Revelation 13:8 And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him…
of the first year [heb] a son of his year
Exodus 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: you …
Leviticus 12:6 And when the days of her purifying are fulfilled, for a son, or for …
every morning [heb] morning by morning
Psalm 92:2 To show forth your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness …
Isaiah 50:4 The Lord GOD has given me the tongue of the learned, that I should …
And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning, the sixth 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.
Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it shall be their possession by inheritance.
If the prince
Genesis 25:5,6 And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac…
2 Chronicles 21:3 And their father gave them great gifts of silver, and of gold, and …
Psalm 37:18 The LORD knows the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.
Matthew 25:34 Then shall the King say to them on his right hand, Come, you blessed …
Luke 10:42 But one thing is needful: and Mary has chosen that good part, which …
John 8:35,36 And the servant stays not in the house for ever: but the Son stays ever…
Romans 8:15-17,29-32 For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but …
Galatians 4:7 Why you are no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir …
But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons' for them.
Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.
the prince
Ezekiel 45:8 In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall …
Psalm 72:2-4 He shall judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with judgment…
Psalm 78:72 So he fed them according to the integrity of his heart; and guided …
Isaiah 11:3,4 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: …
Isaiah 32:1,2 Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule …
Jeremiah 23:5,6 Behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will raise to David …
thrust
Ezekiel 22:27 Her princes in the middle thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, …
1 Kings 21:19 And you shall speak to him, saying, Thus said the LORD, Have you …
Micah 1:1,2 The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days …
Micah 3:1-3 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and you princes of …
inheritance out
Psalm 68:18 You have ascended on high, you have led captivity captive: you have …
John 10:28 And I give to them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither …
Ephesians 4:8 Why he said, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, …
my people
Ezekiel 34:3-6,21 You eat the fat, and you clothe you with the wool, you kill them …
After he brought me through the entry, 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 place on the two sides westward.
Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court, to sanctify the people.
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 court.
in every corner of the court there was a court. [heb] a court in the corner of a court; and a court in a corner of a court.
In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure.
courts These courts 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.
joined. or, made with chimneys.
corners [heb] cornered
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.
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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.
