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Ezekiel 44:24

in Ezekiel 44

In any dispute, they shall officiate as judges and judge according to My ordinances. They must keep My laws and statutes regarding all My appointed feasts, and they must keep My Sabbaths holy.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And in a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to mine ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

KJV

And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

This verse in Ezekiel 44

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

(Vers. 23-24) And they will teach my people what is holy and what is defiled, and they will show them what is clean and what is unclean. And when there is a dispute (as added in the Septuagint, regarding blood), they will stand in my courts, and they will judge my laws, and they will keep my commandments in all my solemnities.

This site's exposition

They must not shave their heads

on Ezekiel 44:20-27

The priests must “carefully trim their hair,” a middle course between pagan mourners' shaved heads and unkempt hair. They drink no wine before the inner court, and they teach “the difference between the holy and the common.” Marriage is limited to a virgin of Israel or a priest's widow.

This site's exposition

they shall officiate as judges

Priests sat as judges in hard cases under Deuteronomy 17:8 to 9, and the vision restores that role. Matthew Henry says they must keep to the statute book. Jerome stresses the words My Sabbaths, setting them against the feasts God rejected in Isaiah 1:13.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

(Verse 24) And they shall sanctify my Sabbaths. Furthermore, it is commanded to the priests: in which it is to be observed that it does not say absolutely: and they shall sanctify the sabbaths; or according to Isaiah: My soul hates your new moons and sabbaths (Isa. 1:13): but with distinction, my sabbaths.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

And herein they must go to the statute-book: They shall keep my statutes in all my assemblies. God calls the assemblies of his people his assemblies, because they are held in his name, to his glory. Ministers are the masters of those assemblies, are to preside in them, and in all their acts must keep close to God's laws.
And in controversy they shall stand in judgment,....

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְעַל־and on

    veal-H5921 →5755 times

  • רִ֗יבa dispute

    rivH7379 →

  • הֵ֚מָּהthey

    hemahH1992 →553 times

  • יַעַמְד֣וּthey will stand

    yaamduH5975 →521 times

  • לְמִשְׁפָּ֔טfor judgment

    lishpotH4941 →422 times

  • בְּמִשְׁפָּטַ֖יby judgments my

    bemishpataiH4941 →422 times

  • יִשְׁפְּט֑וּהוּthey will judge it

    yishfetuhuH8199 →202 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • תּוֹרֹתַ֤יlaws my

    torotaiH8451 →219 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • חֻקֹּתַי֙statutes my

    chukotaiH2708 →104 times

  • בְּכָל־in all

    bekholH3605 →5413 times

  • מוֹעֲדַ֣יappointed times my

    moadaiH4150 →223 times

  • יִשְׁמֹ֔רוּthey will observe

    yishmoruH8104 →468 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • שַׁבְּתוֹתַ֖יsabbaths my

    shabetotaiH7676 →110 times

  • יְקַדֵּֽשׁוּ׃they will sanctify

    yekadeshuH6942 →171 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 22:26

    Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They…

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 10:10

      You must distinguish between the holy and the common, between the clean and the unclean,

    • Ezekiel 22:8

      You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.

    • Ezekiel 44:23

      They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.

    • Malachi 2:8

      But you have departed from the way, and your instruction has caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant of Levi,” says the LORD of Hosts.

    • Micah 3:11–12

      Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price, and her prophets practice divination for money. Yet they lean upon the LORD, saying, “Is not the LORD among us? No disaster…

  • Through

    1 Chronicles 23:4

    “Of these,” said David, “24,000 are to oversee the work of the house of the LORD, 6,000 are to be officers and judges,

    it leads to

    • 2 Chronicles 19:8

      Moreover, Jehoshaphat appointed in Jerusalem some of the Levites, priests, and heads of the Israelite families to judge on behalf of the LORD and to settle disputes. And they lived in Jerusalem.

  • Through

    Ezra 2:63

    The governor ordered them not to eat the most holy things until there was a priest to consult the Urim and Thummim.

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 2:10

      But the remainder of the grain offering shall belong to Aaron and his sons; it is a most holy part of the offerings made by fire to the LORD.

    • Exodus 28:30

      And place the Urim and Thummim in the breastpiece of judgment, so that they will also be over Aaron’s heart whenever he comes before the LORD. Aaron will continually carry the judgment of the…

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About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.