Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 44:16
They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
16. near to my table ] The altar of burnt-offering is no doubt meant, cf. on Eze 41:22.
Eze 44:17-19 . The garments of the priests. In the service of the sanctuary they shall wear only linen clothing, drawers and head-dresses. In Exo 28:39; Exo 28:42; Exo 39:27; Lev 16:4, the coats and bonnets of the priests are byssus (possibly cotton).
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 16. Come near to my table] To place the shew-bread there, and to burn incense on the golden altar in the holy of holies.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
They shall enter, the high priest and the other priests shall have right and liberty of entering, into my sanctuary; both to the altar, to the temple, and the high priest into the holy of holies.
To my table; to set the shew-bread on, and to take it off.
To minister unto me; to offer sacrifice at the altar, and incense in the house; this the priests did in their course; and of this line the high priest alone, once a year, in the day of expiation, went in to minister to the Lord in the holy of holies.
They shall keep my charge: see Eze 44:8.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
They shall enter into my sanctuary,…. Both to officiate, and to participate, which strangers and uncircumcised persons might not do, Eze 44:9:
and they shall come near to my table to minister unto me; which some understand of the altar of burnt offering, which was as a table, and the sacrifice on it was the food of the Lord, Le 3:11, others, the altar of incense; see Eze 41:22. Kimchi interprets it of the table of shewbread; but, whatever is meant in the letter, the mystical sense is, the ordinance of the Lord’s supper, called the Lord’s table,
1Co 10:21, a table richly spread, and well furnished with spiritual provision: here Christ himself sits, bids his people welcome, eats with them, and they with him; and here all the saints are guests, and ministers in particular officiate:
and they shall keep my charge; continue to do so; for this they did before, Eze 44:15, but now should be confirmed in their office, and never be displaced, as others; they that honour God he will honour, 1Sa 2:30.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Eze 44:16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
Ver. 16. To my table, ] i.e., To mine altar, Eze 41:22 Mal 1:7 ; Mal 1:12 which as often as they do, they receive a double pledge of the pardon of their own sins. Joh 20:23
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
They shall enter: Rev 1:6
to my table: To place the shew-bread there. It is observable, that the table in the sanctuary is mentioned rather than the altar of incense; perhaps intimating the change in the external institutions of Divine worship which should take place before the accomplishment of the prophecy. It is not easy to determine, whether any external regulations, with respect to Divine ordinances, answerable to these predictions, will be made among the converted Jews, when reinstated in their own land, or not. Eze 41:22, Mal 1:7, Mal 1:12
keep: Num 18:7, Num 18:8, Deu 33:8-10
Reciprocal: Num 16:5 – will cause 1Sa 2:35 – I will raise 1Ki 7:48 – the table 2Ch 4:8 – ten tables Eze 23:41 – a table Eze 40:39 – tables on that Eze 44:8 – charge Eze 48:11 – the sons Zec 3:7 – if thou wilt keep Mal 3:3 – the sons
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 44:16. The table is the altar described in Eze 41:22.