The Gate for the Prince
And thou shalt say to the rebellious, even to the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O ye house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations, Eze 44:6
thou shalt say... 116 Commands of Ezekiel 40-48:
1. Behold with your eyes (Eze. 40:4).
2. Hear with your ears.
3. Set your heart upon all that I will show you.
4. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel.
5. Let them put away their whoredom (Eze. 43:9).
6. Let them put away the carcasses of their kings far from me.
7. Show the house of Israel their iniquities (Eze. 43:10).
8. Let them measure the pattern.
9. Show them the form of the house.
10. Show them the fashion of it (Eze. 43:11).
11. Show them the goings out and the comings in of it.
12. Show them all the ordinances.
13. Show them all the laws thereof.
14. Write it in their sight that they may keep the whole form thereof, and the ordinances, and do them.
15. Give a young bullock for a sin offering to the priests and Levites.
16. Take the blood and put it on the horns corners, and borders of the altar (Eze. 43:20).
17. Take a bullock for the sin offering and burn it in the appointed place of the house without the sanctuary (Eze. 43:21).
18. Offer a kid for a sin offering the next day to cleanse the altar (Eze. 43:22).
19. Offer a bullock and a ram after you have cleansed the altar (Eze. 43:23).
20. The priests shall offer them as burnt offerings before the Lord by putting salt upon them (Eze. 43:24).
21. For seven days you shall offer a bullock, a goat, and a ram to cleanse the altar (Eze. 43:25-26).
22. The priests shall consecrate themselves (Eze. 43:26).
23. Every day after the altar is cleansed, the continual offerings must be offered to be accepted (Eze. 43:27).
24. The east gate must be kept closed; and no man shall enter in by it except the prince of Israel (Eze. 44:2).
25. In the east gate the prince shall sit and eat bread before the Lord, and shall go in and out (Eze. 44:3).
26. Mark well—set your heart upon all that I say (Eze. 44:5).
27. Behold with your eyes.
28. Hear with your ears all that I say to you concerning the ordinances and laws of the temple.
29. Mark well the entering in the temple and sanctuary.
30. Say to the rebellious house of Israel, O house of Israel, let it suffice you of all your abominations (Eze. 44:6-8).
31. No stranger that is not circumcised in heart and in the flesh shall enter into My sanctuary (Eze. 44:9).
32. The Levites that rebelled shall continue to bear their iniquity (Eze. 44:10-14).
33. Yet they will be ministers of the gates and slay the sacrifices offered in the temple (Eze. 44:11-14).
34. They shall not come near Me to be priests or come near the holy things in the most holy place (Eze. 44:13).
35. The sons of Zadok that did not rebel will be My priests and minister unto Me in the sanctuary (Eze. 44:15-16).
36. They shall stand before Me to offer the fat and the blood (Eze. 44:15).
37. They will come near My table to minister to Me and keep My charge (Eze. 44:16).
38. They shall be clothed in linen when they minister (Eze. 44:17).
39. No wool shall come upon them as they minister.
40. They shall wear linen bonnets on their heads, and linen breeches upon their loins (Eze. 44:18).
41. They shall not wear anything that causes them to sweat.
42. They shall put off their linen clothes when they go out among the people in the outer court (Eze. 44:19).
43. They shall not sanctify (or touch) the people with ministerial garments on.
44. They shall not shave their heads, or suffer their locks to grow long; they shall poll their heads (Eze. 44:20).
45. They shall not drink wine when they enter into the inner court (Eze. 44:21).
46. They shall not take widows or divorcees for their wives, but maids of the house of Israel only (Eze. 44:22).
47. They shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the profane, and cause them to discern between the clean and the unclean (Eze. 44:23).
48. They shall act as judges in controversy (Eze. 44:4).
49. They shall judge righteously.
50. They shall keep My laws and My statutes in all My assemblies.
51. They shall hallow My sabbaths.
52. They shall not touch any dead body to defile themselves, except for that of a close relative (Eze. 44:25).
53. In case of defilement one shall go through cleansing for seven days (Eze. 44:26).
54. He shall offer his sin offering when he goes into the sanctuary to minister to Me (Eze. 44:27).
55. They (the priests) shall not receive an inheritance or possession in Israel (Eze. 44:28).
56. Every dedicated thing in Israel shall be theirs, as well as the meat and trespass offerings (Eze. 44:29).
57. The first of all the firstfruits of all things shall be theirs (Eze. 44:30).
58. Every oblation shall be theirs.
59. The first of your dough will be theirs.
60. They shall not eat anything that dies of itself, or is torn (Eze. 44:31).
61. When you divide the land you shall offer an oblation to Jehovah (Eze. 45:1-7).
62. The holy oblation for the priests shall be 25,000 reeds (nearly 50 mi.) in length and 10,000 reeds (nearly 20 miles) in breadth (Eze. 45:1, 45:3-4; 48:8-12, 48:20).
63. The sanctuary of 500 cubits (875 feet) square shall be in this portion (Eze. 45:2). If the reference is 500 reeds here then the command concerns the sanctuary with its additional profane place, the outer square measuring 500 reeds across, or 5,250 feet—nearly one mile (Eze. 42:20).
64. There shall be 50 cubits (87 feet 6 inches) for the suburbs around this (Eze. 45:2).
65. Another like portion of 10,000 by 25,000 reeds (nearly 20 by 50 miles) shall be for the homes of the Levites (Eze. 45:5; 48:13-14).
66. Another portion, 5,000 by 25,000 reed (approximately 10 by 50 miles) shall be for the city of Jerusalem, suburbs, and the whole house of Israel (Eze. 45:6; 48:15-20).
67. Part of this on both sides of the city shall be for the prince (Eze. 45:7; 48:21-22).
68. The rest of the land shall be divided to the 12 tribes (Eze. 45:8).
69. Remove violence and spoil (Eze. 45:9).
70. Execute judgment and justice.
71. Take away your exactions from My people.
72. You shall have just balances and measure (Eze. 45:10).
73. The ephah and the bath shall be the same measure, a tenth part of an homer (Eze. 45:11).
74. The shekel shall be 20 gerahs (Eze. 45:12).
75. Your maneh shall be 15, 20, and 25 shekels.
76. Your oblations for the prince from all Israel shall be a sixth part of an ephah of wheat, a sixth part of an ephah of barley, a tenth part of a bath of oil, and one lamb out of 200 (Eze. 45:14-16).
77. The prince shall make burnt offerings, meat offerings, and drink offerings, and feasts, new moons, and all solemnities of the house of Israel (Eze. 45:17).
78. He shall prepare the sin offerings, meat offerings, burnt offerings, and peace offerings, to reconcile Israel.
79. The first day of the first month you shall offer a bullock to cleanse the sanctuary (Eze. 45:18).
80. The seventh day of the first month the priest shall take of the blood of the sin offering and put it on the posts of the temple, on the corners of the settle of the altar, and upon the posts of the gate of the inner court (Eze. 44:19-20).
81. The 14th day of the first month you shall have the passover, and the feast of unleavened bread, for 7 days (Eze. 45:21).
82. Unleavened bread shall be eaten.
83. On the day of the passover the prince shall prepare for himself and the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering (Eze. 45:22).
84. On each of the seven days of the feast of unleavened bread he shall prepare seven bullocks, seven rams, and a kid for a sin offering (Eze. 45:23).
85. He shall prepare the meat offering of an ephah of flour for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and a hin of oil for an ephah (Eze. 45:24).
86. On the 15th day of the 7th month the prince shall make offerings as in the feast of the 7 days (Eze. 45:25).
87. The east gate of the inner court shall be shut for 6 working days, but opened on the sabbath (Eze. 46:1).
88. It shall also be opened in the day of the new moon.
89. The prince shall enter by the way of the porch of that gate without (Eze. 46:2).
90. He shall stand by the post of the gate while the priests prepare his burnt offering and peace offerings.
91. He shall worship at the threshold of the gate, and then go forth out of the gate.
92. The gate shall not be shut until the evening.
93. The people also shall worship at the door of this gate in the sabbaths and in the new moons (Eze. 46:3).
94. The burnt offerings which the prince shall offer on each sabbath shall be 6 lambs and a ram (Eze. 46:4).
95. The meat offering for the ram shall be an ephah of flour, and the meat offering for the lambs as much as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to each ephah (Eze. 46:5).
96. Each new moon he shall offer a bullock, 6 lambs, and a ram (Eze. 46:6).
97. He shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah of flour and a hin of oil for the bullock and the ram, and for each lamb as he shall have (Eze. 46:7).
98. The prince shall go in and out by the east gate (Eze. 46:8).
99. When the people come for the solemn feasts they shall enter by the north gate to worship and go out through the south gate (Eze. 46:9).
100. He that comes through the south gate shall go out through the north gate.
101. He shall not return by the way he came in.
102. The prince and the people shall go in and out at the same time (Eze. 46:10).
103. When the prince shall prepare voluntary burnt offerings and peace offerings, the east gate shall be opened and he shall prepare them as he does on the sabbath days, (Eze. 46:12).
104. After his worship he shall go out to the east gate.
105. After he goes out, the gate shall be shut.
106. You shall prepare a daily morning burnt offering of a lamb of the first year to the Lord (Eze. 46:13).
107. The meat offering for the lamb every morning shall be a sixth part of an ephah, and a third part of a hin of oil (Eze. 46:14-15).
108. If the prince gives land to his sons it shall remain theirs (Eze. 46:16).
109. If he gives it to his servants it shall return to him in the year of jubilee (Eze. 46:16-17).
110. The prince shall not take land from the people or oppress them (Eze. 46:18).
111. The priests shall boil their own trespass offerings and the sin offerings, and bake the meat offerings in the west corners of the inner court (Eze. 46:19-20).
112. The sacrifices of the people shall be boiled in the four corners of the outer court (Eze. 46:21-24).
113. You shall divide the land according to the tribes of Israel (Eze. 47:21).
114. You shall divide the land by lot to yourselves and the strangers among you (Eze. 47:22).
115. Strangers among you shall be as one born in the country among you.
116. They shall have inheritance among the children of Israel (Eze. 47:22-23).
Some of the idolatries had taken place at this very gate in the past. God wants them to put all of that behind them.
Because of God’s holiness Ezekiel told the nation, a rebellious house (cf. Eze. 2:5-6, 2:8; 3:9, 3:26-27; 12:3, 12:9, 12:25; 17:12; 24:3), that God said, Enough of your detestable practices, O house of Israel! God demanded holiness from His people, and a turning from the practice of allowing uncircumcised foreigners into the temple (Eze. 44:9; cf. 44:7).
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