Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Toward the north … toward the east … – i. e., the measurements are along the north and east sides, etc.

Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible

For the priests; who are more particularly described Eze 48:11, which see.

Toward the north; the north side, in length from north-east to north-west.

Toward the west; from south-west to north-west point, between which points lay the west side.

Toward the east; between north-east and south-east points, which made the east border.

Toward the south; from south-east by line drawn to south-west, the same measure with the north.

Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole

And for them, even the priests, shall be this holy oblation,…. This holy portion of land, excepting that which is for the sanctuary, is to be for the use of the priests to build houses on to dwell in; signifying, that the ministers of the Gospel are to be taken care of, and sufficient provision made for their maintenance; see

Eze 45:4:

toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length; to the north and south five and twenty thousand reeds each; and to the east and west ten thousand each; all this belongs to the priests, excepting the place for the sanctuary, that stood in the middle of it, as repeated in the following clause: and the sanctuary of the Lord shall be in the midst thereof; as in Eze 48:8.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

OBLATION (PROPERTY) FOR PRIESTS AND LEVITES’

Verses 10-20:

Verse 16 directs that there shall be apportioned an holy oblation of the Land of Israel for the priests, with the sanctuary of the Lord, (the temple) to be located in the central area of it. The dimensions of v. 9 are then restated as 10,000 reeds in breadth on the north and south ends and 25,000 reeds in length on the east and west sides, with the greater length north and south and the lesser east and west.

Verse 11 certifies that the sanctuary area of the oblation shall be for the custody of the sanctified priests of the family of Zadok; Who had held the priestly charges as sacred, who did not go astray, as the other Levites and Israelites, in the pre-captivity apostacy, Neh 9:34; Jer 23:11; Eze 22:26; Eze 44:10; Zep 3:4; Mat 2:8-9.

Verse 12 adds that this oblation land of their custody (the sanctified priests of the family of Zadok) should be to them an area most holy, by, alongside, or adjoining the Levites; Whether on the north or south, it is not clear, v. 22.

Verses 13, 14 direct that by the border of the priests the Levites are to have for a possession a property 25,000 reeds long and 10,000 reeds wide. They were forbidden to sell it, exchange it, or dispose of the firstfruits by selling or trading them, because the land and all that pertained to it was sanctified for use of the Levites in Divine Service to the Lord, Exo 22:29; Lev 27:10; Lev 27:28; Lev 27:33.

Verse 15 prescribes that the remaining 5,000 reeds of the oblation land that remain over against the 25,000 reeds shall be used as a profane or common place use for the city of Jerusalem. On it were to be: 1) residences, and 2) general suburb buildings. The city however was to be in the midst of the greater oblation area, Eze 42:20; Eze 45:6; Lev 10:10-11; Deu 20:5; Hag 2:11; Hag 2:13.

Verses 16, 17 lay out dimensions of the city as four thousand (4,000) reeds on each of the four sides, forming a square.

Verses 18, 19 apportion two strips of land on either side of the holy area to be 10,000 by 5,000 reeds. The produce of this land area was designated for food to those who “served the city,” other than those of the priests who served the altar, and the Levites who served the tabernacle, Num 4:24; Num 4:26; Num 18:6-7; Jos 9:27; 1Ki 4:7-23; Ezr 2:48; Ezr 2:58; Rev 7:5. To avoid jealousy, the service of the city should be out of all the tribes of Israel, not of the Levites only, Eze 45:6; Previously the employees had been of Judah and Benjamin, 2Sa 19:43.

Verse 20 restates the complete dimensions of the oblation lands as 25,000 reeds, foursquare, including the possession of the city. See Num 24:5; Isa 33:20; Heb 12:27; Rev 21:16.

Fuente: Garner-Howes Baptist Commentary

“And for these, even for the priests, will be the holy Gift-offering. Towards the north twenty five thousand in length, and towards the west ten thousand in breadth, and towards the east ten thousand in breadth, and towards the south twenty five thousand in length, and the sanctuary of Yahweh will be in its midst. It shall be for the priests who are sanctified of the sons of Zadok, who have kept my charge, who did not go astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray, and it shall be to them for a Gift-offering from the gift-offering of the land, a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.”

The holy Gift-offering is for the priests. Again its dimensions are emphasised. They clearly have an important message to convey. It is covenant territory. The border looking to north and south is twenty five thousand cubits, that to east and west is ten thousand cubits, both intensive covenant numbers, five squared times a thousand, and five doubled times a thousand. And twice we have been told that the heavenly sanctuary was in the midst. The portion is said to be ‘most holy’. In Eze 45:3 it was the heavenly sanctuary that was most holy. So this portion is now upgraded. It is made one with the heavenly sanctuary. Ezekiel is surely seeking as best he can to convey the idea of a heavenly portion for the pure in heart, the earthly becoming a part of the heavenly.

The ‘gift offering of the land’ recognises the fact that the whole of the land is a gift-offering to Yahweh, all is His, but that the holy portion is so specifically, a king of super gift-offering.

Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett

Eze 48:10. Toward the north, &c. Towards the north the length shall be five-and-twenty thousand cubits; likewise towards the south the length shall be five-and-twenty thousand cubits; and the breadth toward the east shall be ten thousand cubits, and toward the west ten thousand cubits; and, &c. Houbigant. See Eze 48:16.

Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke

Eze 48:10 And for them, [even] for the priests, shall be [this] holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand [in length], and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst thereof.

Ver. 10. And for them, even for the priests. ] No mention is here made of cities of refuge, as of old; “for they shall not hurt nor destroy in all God’s holy mountain: but the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.” Isa 11:9

Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)

holy. See note on Exo 3:5.

Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics

for the priests: Eze 44:28, Eze 45:4, Num 35:1-9, Jos 21:1-45, Mat 10:10, 1Co 9:13, 1Co 9:14

and the sanctuary: Eze 48:8

Reciprocal: Eze 45:3 – and in it Eze 45:5 – the five Eze 48:15 – for the city

Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Eze 48:10. This special ablation was for the specific uSe of the priests. They were from the tribe of Levi and did not have any general possession of land as others.

Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary