Ezekiel 45:13-17

13 “ ‘This is the special gift you are to offer: a sixth of an ephah^[a] from each homer of wheat and a sixth of an ephah^[b] from each homer of barley.

14 The prescribed portion of olive oil, measured by the bath, is a tenth of a bath^[c] from each cor (which consists of ten baths or one homer, for ten baths are equivalent to a homer).

15 Also one sheep is to be taken from every flock of two hundred from the well-watered pastures of Israel. These will be used for the grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the people, declares the Sovereign LORD.

16 All the people of the land will be required to give this special offering to the prince in Israel.

17 It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, grain offerings and drink offerings at the festivals, the New Moons and the Sabbaths—at all the appointed festivals of Israel. He will provide the sin offerings,^[d] grain offerings, burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to make atonement for the Israelites.

Ezekiel 45:13-17 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 45

This chapter treats of the division of the land in future time, and the persons and uses for which it is to be made; one part being for the sanctuary, and the priests that serve in it, and for their houses for them to dwell in, Eze 45:1-4, another for the Levites and their chambers, Eze 45:5, and another for the city, for the Israelites in common, Eze 45:6, and the last for the prince; and of the situation and extent of it, Eze 45:7,8 and of the righteous administration of civil government in the time of the spiritual reign of Christ, in abstinence from violence and exactions, and doing justice, for which orders and directions are given, Eze 45:9-12, then of the oblations of the people of the land, Eze 45:13-16, and next of those that are to be prepared by the prince, Eze 45:17, and the times of the offering of them, at the beginning of the year, on the feasts of the passover and tabernacles, Eze 45:18-25, the rules for which are so different from the Mosaic law, as show the abrogation of that; and that all this is to be understood in a spiritual and evangelic sense.

Cross References

• 1. S Leviticus 1:4
• 2. Leviticus 6:30
• 3. S Numbers 10:10
• 4. S Leviticus 23:38; Isaiah 66:23
• 5. S 1 Kings 8:62; S 2 Chronicles 31:3; Ezekiel 46:4-12

Footnotes

• [a]. That is, probably about 6 pounds or about 2.7 kilograms
• [b]. That is, probably about 5 pounds or about 2.3 kilograms
• [c]. That is, about 2 1/2 quarts or about 2.2 liters
• [d]. Or "purification offerings" ; also in verses 19, 22, 23 and 25