Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 45:3
And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary [and] the most holy [place].
3. The portion of the sacred land assigned to the priests shall consist of a tract 25,000 long by 10,000 broad.
sanctuary and the most holy ] sanctuary, (even) the most holy thing. The whole area of land is holy, the sanctuary most holy.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Verse 3. And of this measure] See the plan, A, B, C, D, E. See Clarke on Eze 48:35.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Of, or by, or from this cubit measure, Eze 45:2, shalt thou measure. So express, that indeed I wonder a dispute can arise; and this justifies the French version, which from this verse no doubt took the coudee, which they use in Eze 45:1.
In it, in the centre or navel of this twenty-five thousand and ten thousand, shall the whole sanctuary, courts, temple, and holy of holies, or the oracle, be built.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand,…. Not that the sense is, that of and according to the cubit measure last mentioned, this length and this breadth should be measured; but “after this measure”, as Starckius renders it, and as the particle is rendered, Da 11:23 and which Sanctius mentions; and Jerom seems to have understood it in this light: and the sense is, that after he had finished the measure of five hundred reeds square, and fifty cubits round, he should proceed to measure the rest of the twenty five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth:
and in it shall be the sanctuary, and the most holy place; that is, in the midst portion of land, consisting of the above measures, be the holy place, and the holy of holies; this is, but a further explanation of the two preceding verses.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(3) Of this measure.If the Hebrew text of Eze. 45:1 be preserved unchanged, we must understand this to refer to the whole oblation of 25,000 reeds broad which was in the prophets mind, though he does not speak of it until afterwards; this verse will then be a repetition of the latter part of Eze. 45:1, for the sake of specifying that the sanctuary was to be within it. The territory here assigned to the priests, more than 47 miles long by nearly 19 broad, with only one square mile deducted for the sanctuary, is enormously larger than the 13 cities assigned for their residence in Jos. 21:19, and is also considerably larger than that given (Ezekiel 48) to any of the tribes. It has been suggested that, as Ezekiel makes no mention of the tithes, this large territory may have been given to the priests for their support instead of the tithes; but the law of tithes was a very ancient institution (see Gen. 14:20; Gen. 28:22), and was important for the good of the people as well as for the support of the priests. It is unlikely that Ezekiel would have introduced so radical a change without any allusion to it. The enlargement of the priests possessions is quite in proportion to the enlargement of the sanctuary, and both seem designed in this symbolical vision to set forth the prominence of the Divine worship, and its precedence over all other things.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Eze 45:3 And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary [and] the most holy [place].
Ver. 3. The length of five and twenty thousand. ] Here the same again is repeated, as Eze 45:1 and further is shown how this holy portion of ground was to be employed to the use of the priests.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
five and twenty thousand = about sixty or seventy miles, according to the length of the cubit.
most holy place = holy of holies.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
and in it: Eze 48:10
Reciprocal: 1Ki 6:16 – built them Eze 48:13 – five and twenty thousand in
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 45:3. This verse states the same dimensions as in the first verse and adds some particulars as to its use, that it was to be used as a holy place.