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Ezekiel 45:4

in Ezekiel 45

It will be a holy portion of the land to be used by the priests who minister in the sanctuary, who draw near to minister before the LORD. It will be a place for their houses, as well as a holy area for the sanctuary.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

It is a holy portion of the land; it shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, that come near to minister unto Jehovah; and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary.

KJV

The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the Lord: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary.

This verse in Ezekiel 45

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

the priests who minister in the sanctuary

on Ezekiel 45:4-5

Two strips are marked off, one for the priests “who draw near to minister before the LORD,” and one beside it for the Levites. Gill reads the order as the vision's rank, priest before Levite. The grant follows the temple's concentric holiness, nearer the center for the higher office.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Chapter 45, vers. 1 and following) When you begin to divide the land as an inheritance, set apart for the Lord a portion of the land, twenty-five thousand cubits in length and ten thousand cubits in width, which shall be consecrated in all its boundaries. This portion shall be holy and shall be laid out in a square, five hundred by five hundred cubits in size, with fifty cubits of additional land as its outskirts.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary,....

The words behind it

18 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.

  • קֹ֣דֶשׁ[will be] a holy portion

    kodeshH6944 →469 times

  • מִן־from

    min-H4480 →1188 times

  • הָאָ֜רֶץthe land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • ה֗וּאit

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • לַכֹּ֨הֲנִ֜יםto the priests

    lakohanimH3548 →750 times

  • מְשָׁרְתֵ֤י[who] serve

    meshareteiH8334 →97 times

  • הַמִּקְדָּשׁ֙<of> the sanctuary

    hamikdashH4720 →75 times

  • יִֽהְיֶ֔הit will belong

    yihyehH1961 →3559 times

  • הַקְּרֵבִ֖ים<the> approaching

    hakerevimH7131 →

  • לְשָׁרֵ֣תto serve

    lesharetH8334 →97 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וְהָיָ֨הand it will be

    vehayahH1961 →3559 times

  • לָהֶ֤םfor them

    lahem

  • מָקוֹם֙a place

    makomH4725 →401 times

  • לְבָ֣תִּ֔יםfor houses

    levatimH1004 →2046 times

  • וּמִקְדָּ֖שׁand a holy place

    umikdashH4720 →75 times

  • לַמִּקְדָּֽשׁ׃for the sanctuary

    lamikdashH4720 →75 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

    Numbers 16:5

    Then he said to Korah and all his followers, “Tomorrow morning the LORD will reveal who belongs to Him and who is holy, and He will bring that person near to Himself. The one…

    it leads to

    • Psalms 65:4

      Blessed is the one You choose and bring near to dwell in Your courts! We are filled with the goodness of Your house, the holiness of Your temple.

    • Numbers 17:5

      The staff belonging to the man I choose will sprout, and I will rid Myself of the constant grumbling of the Israelites against you.”

    • Leviticus 10:3

      Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD meant when He said: ‘To those who come near Me I will show My holiness, and in the sight of all the people I…

    • 2 Timothy 2:19

      Nevertheless, God’s firm foundation stands, bearing this seal: “The Lord knows those who are His,” and, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord must turn away from iniquity.”

  • Through

    Ezekiel 43:19

    You are to give a young bull from the herd as a sin offering to the Levitical priests who are of the family of Zadok, who approach Me to minister before Me, declares the…

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 44:15

      But the Levitical priests, who are descended from Zadok and who kept charge of My sanctuary when the Israelites went astray from Me, are to approach Me to minister before Me. They will stand…

    • Ezekiel 40:46

      and the chamber that faces north is for the priests who keep charge of the altar. These are the sons of Zadok, the only Levites who may approach the LORD to minister before Him.”

    • Ezekiel 45:18–19

      This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘On the first day of the first month you are to take a young bull without blemish and purify the sanctuary.

  • Through

    Ezekiel 40:45

    Then the man said to me: “The chamber that faces south is for the priests who keep charge of the temple,

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 9:23

      So they and their descendants were assigned to guard the gates of the house of the LORD—the house called the Tent.

Where this verse is studied

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 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.