Ezekiel 45:8

Properties of the City and the Prince

6 ^a“You shall appoint as the property of the city an area five thousand cubits wide and twenty-five thousand long, adjacent to the district of the holy section; it shall belong to the whole house of Israel.

7 ^a“The prince shall have a section on one side and the other of the holy district and the city’s property; and bordering on the holy district and the city’s property, extending westward on the west side and eastward on the east side, the length shall be side by side with one of the tribal portions, from the west border to the east border.

8 The land shall be his possession in Israel; and ^aMy princes shall no more oppress My people, but they shall give the rest of the land to the house of Israel, according to their tribes.”

Laws Governing the Prince

9 ‘Thus says the Lord God: ^a“Enough, O princes of Israel! ^bRemove violence and plundering, execute justice and righteousness, and stop dispossessing My people,” says the Lord God.

10 “You shall have ^ahonest scales, an honest ephah, and an honest bath.

11 The ephah and the bath shall be of the same measure, so that the bath contains one-tenth of a homer, and the ephah one-tenth of a homer; their measure shall be according to the homer.

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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Ezekiel 45:7-8

On either side of the 25,000 reeds a strip of land, running westward to the sea, eastward to the Jordan, formed the possession of the prince (see Ezekiel 46:18 note). For the other tribes the limits from west to east are the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan Ezekiel 48:8.

Ezekiel 45:7

And the length shall be over against - Or, "and" in length "over against."

The definition of the prince' s territory was to prevent the oppressions foretold (I Samuel 8:14 ff), described II Kings 23:35, and reproved Jer. 22.

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