Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 48:20
All the oblation [shall be] five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.
20. The verse means that the holy oblation when the possession of the city is included forms a square of 25,000 by 25,000.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
The holy … with … – Or, a fourth part as the holy oblation, for etc.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Having particularly measured out ten thousand for the priests, and ten thousand for the Levites, and five thousand for the city broadways, these make in all twenty-five thousand; and the length of each the same, twenty-five thousand; here is evidently a perfect equilateral square, whose sides are twenty-five thousand each. With the possession of the city; the land assigned for the city, being added to that of the priests and Levites, makes their twice ten thousand to amount to twenty-five thousand broad.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand,…. Or, “every oblation” w; everyone of the oblations; that for the priests and the sanctuary; that for the Levites, and that for the city, its suburbs, and the maintenance of those that served the city; each were a square of five and twenty thousand reeds:
ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city; taking in the possession of the city, or what that possessed, the oblation of land for that, and its suburbs, and for produce to support those that served it, should be a foursquare of the above dimensions.
w “omnis oblatio”, Pagninus, Montanus.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
20-22. The entire reservation including the city constituted a square twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand, and on the east side of this sacred domain, protecting it on the east and west, were the sections assigned to the prince, extending to the Jordan on the one side and the Mediterranean on the other. (See chart, page 235.) This domain, which is “over against the portions” (that is, the portions assigned to Judah and Benjamin), “shall be for the prince: and the holy oblation and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof” (Eze 48:21). Everything lying between the border of Judah and Benjamin east and west from this central square (wherein lie the city and the Levitical possessions) shall be for the prince (Eze 48:22).
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
“All the Gift-offering shall be twenty five thousand by twenty five thousand. You shall offer the holy Gift-offering foursquare, including what is possessed by the city.”
The whole portion including the priests’ most holy portion, the Levites’ holy portion, and the city and its suburbs and lands, are now described as making up ‘the Gift-offering (oblation)’ which is thus foursquare and holy. The city too has now been upgraded to being to some extent holy, although notice how it is distinguished from the remainder as not quite so potently holy (see also Eze 48:21). The whole has been offered to Yahweh as a gift and offering around His heavenly temple.
It is difficult in all this not to see it as an attempt to portray the equivalent of a ‘heavenly’ portion connected to the heavenly sanctuary, including a ‘heavenly’ city, and made up of priests, Levites and all the tribes of Israel, all slowly merging into the holiness of the heavenly temple. How else could Ezekiel do it given his limitations of concept? John saw the foursquare city in the Book of Revelation chapter 21 as the final fulfilment of the vision.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
Eze 48:20 All the oblation [shall be] five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.
Ver. 20. Ye shall offer the holy oblation four square. ] See on Eze 48:13 . All our dealings must be square, or else we are not of the holy portion, of the new Jerusalem. Rev 21:16
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
foursquare: Heb 12:17, Rev 21:16
Reciprocal: Eze 42:20 – five hundred Eze 45:5 – the five
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 48:20. The entire reservation described In the foregoing verses was several miles square if measured by modern standards or terms.
Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary
48:20 All the oblation [shall be] five and twenty thousand by {d} five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.
(d) Every way it will be five and twenty thousand.
Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes
The total holy allotment would be 25,000 cubits (8.3 miles) square including the city and its adjacent lands as well as the territories for the Levites and Zadokites. This is an area of almost 70 square miles.