1Ch 9:18, 24, Neh 3:29, Jer 19:2, Eze 8:16, 11:1, 40:20, 43:1, 44:1, 46:1, 12 | TSK | STEP | Who hitherto waited.The original is {weäd hennah,} which Houbigant and Dr. Geddes consider as a proper name, and render, "And Adanah was over the eastern gate, called the king's;" i.e., the gate by which the kings of Judah went to the temple. The list is here nearly the same with those found in Ezra and Nehemiah, and contains those who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel: but the list in Nehemiah is more ample, probably because it contains those who came afterwards; the object of the sacred writer here being to give the names of those who came first, (ver. 2.) These consisted of men belonging not only to the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, but to many of the other tribes of Israel, who took advantage of the proclamation of Cyrus to return to Jerusalem. Properly speaking, the divisions mentioned here constituted the whole of the Israelitish people, who were divided into priests, Levites, common Israelites, and Nethinims. the king's. they.

1 Chronicles 9:18

Who hitherto waited.The original is {weäd hennah,} which Houbigant and Dr. Geddes consider as a proper name, and render, "And Adanah was over the eastern gate, called the king's;" i.e., the gate by which the kings of Judah went to the temple. The list is here nearly the same with those found in Ezra and Nehemiah, and contains those who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel: but the list in Nehemiah is more ample, probably because it contains those who came afterwards; the object of the sacred writer here being to give the names of those who came first, (ver. 2.) These consisted of men belonging not only to the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, but to many of the other tribes of Israel, who took advantage of the proclamation of Cyrus to return to Jerusalem. Properly speaking, the divisions mentioned here constituted the whole of the Israelitish people, who were divided into priests, Levites, common Israelites, and Nethinims.

the king's.

1Ki 10:5; 2Ki 11:19; Eze 44:2,3; 46:1,2; Ac 3:11

they.

26:12-19

1 Chronicles 9:24

four.

26:14-18

Nehemiah 3:29

the son.

7:40; Ezr 2:37

Shechaniah.

Ezr 10:2

the east gate.

Jer 19:2

Jeremiah 19:2

the valley.

7:31,32; 32:35; Jos 15:8; 2Ki 23:10; 2Ch 28:3; 33:6

east-gate. Heb. sun-gate.

Ne 3:29

and proclaim.

1:7; 3:12; 7:2; 11:6; 26:2; Pr 1:20-22; Eze 3:10,11; Jon 3:2

Mt 10:27; Ac 5:20; 20:27

Ezekiel 8:16

the inner.

10:3; 40:28; 43:5; 45:19

at the door.

2Ki 16:14; 2Ch 7:7; Joe 2:17

about.

11:1

with their.

23:35; 1Ki 8:29; 2Ch 29:6; Jer 2:27; 32:33

their faces.

De 4:19; 17:3; 2Ki 23:5,11; Job 31:26-28; Jer 44:17; Ac 7:42,43

and they.It seems that the Jews had incorporated every species of idolatry into their worship, Egyptian, Phoenician, and Persian; for this evidently was the Magian worship of the sun.

Ezekiel 11:1

1 The presumption of the princes.

4 Their sin and judgment.

13 Ezekiel complaining, God shews him his purpose in saving a remnant;

21 and punishing the wicked.

22 The glory of God leaves the city.

24 Ezekiel is returned to the captivity.

the spirit.

24; 3:12,14; 8:3; 37:1; 40:1,2; 41:1; 1Ki 18:12; 2Ki 2:16; Ac 8:39

the east.

behold.

Jaazaniah.

Pelatiah.

13; 22:27; Isa 1:10,23; Ho 5:10

Ezekiel 40:20

the gate.

that looked. Heb. whose face was.

Ezekiel 43:1

1 The returning of the glory of God into the temple.

7 The sin of Israel hindered God's presence.

10 The prophet exhorts them to repentance, and observation of the law of the house.

13 The measures,

18 and the ordinances of the altar.

the gate that.

40:6; 42:15; 44:1; 46:1

Ezekiel 44:1

1 The east gate assigned only to the prince.

4 The priests reproved for polluting the sanctuary.

9 Idolaters incapable of the priests office.

15 The sons of Zadok are accepted thereto.

17 Ordinances for the priests.

the outward.So called in opposition to the temple itself, which was the inner sanctuary.

40:6,17; 42:14; 2Ch 4:9; 20:5; 33:5; Ac 21:28-30

looketh.

43:1,4; 46:1

Ezekiel 46:1

1 Ordinances for the prince in his worship;

9 and for the people.

16 An order for the prince's inheritance.

19 The courts for boiling and baking.

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, till the evening.

shall be shut.

44:1,2

six working.

Ge 3:19; Ex 20:9; Lu 13:14

on the sabbath.

45:17; Isa 66:23; Heb 4:9,10

Ezekiel 46:12

a voluntary.

Le 1:3; 23:38; Nu 29:39; 1Ki 3:4; 1Ch 29:21; 2Ch 5:6; 7:5-7; 29:31

Ezr 1:4; 3:5; 6:17; Ro 12:1; Eph 5:2

open him.

1,2,8; 44:3

as he did.

45:17