Ezekiel 45:1
And when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer a heave-offering unto Jehovah, a holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand [cubits], and the breadth ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.
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Numbers 34:13And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall take for yourselves as inheritance by lot, which Jehovah commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe.
Joshua 14:1And this is what the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, allotted for inheritance to them:
Psalms 16:5Jehovah is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
Ezekiel 45:2Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred [reeds] by five hundred, square round about; and fifty cubits round about for the suburbs thereof.
Ezekiel 47:22And it shall come to pass that ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you, and to the strangers that sojourn among you, who shall beget children among you; and they shall be unto you as the home-born among the children of Israel: with you shall they draw by lot inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
Ezekiel 48:29This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord Jehovah.
Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 45:1
In this chapter is further represented to the prophet, in vision, I. The division of the holy land, so much for the temple, and the priests that attended the service of it ( ver. 1-4 ), so much for the Levites ( ver. 5 ), so much for the city ( ver. 6 ), so much for the prince, and the residue to the people, ver. 7, 8 . II. The ordinances of justice that were given both to prince and people, ver. 9-12 . III. The oblations they were to offer, and the prince's part in those oblations, ver. 13-17 . Particularly in… Read the whole commentary →