5<\/strong>. Read: and five , and ten shall the Levites have.<\/strong> (The Keri is unnecessary).<\/p>\n for twenty chambers<\/em> ] Probably with LXX.: for cities to dwell in.<\/strong> Cf. same words Num 35:2<\/span>; Jos 14:4<\/span>. In Eze 45:6<\/em><\/span> Jerusalem, with its suburbs, is assigned a tract of land only half of this given to the Levites.<\/p>\n For a possession for twenty chambers – <\/B>literally, For a possession twenty chambers, possibly twenty out of the thirty chambers in the outer court Eze 40:17<\/span>, and assigned for their use during residence in the sanctuary. The Septuagint reads for cities to dwell in (compare Num 35:2<\/span>) which some adopt here.<\/P> <\/p>\n Verse 5<\/span>. And the five and twenty thousand<\/B><\/I>] See the plan, B. See Clarke on Eze 48:35<\/span>.<\/P> <\/p>\n As we render the words they are a little clouded, but as they are rendered in the French they are plainer: we read them as if the verse spake of the same twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand broad, which the priests have; but the French thus, there shall be other twenty-five thousand in length and ten thousand in breadth, which shall appertain to the Levites, who do the service of the house, with twenty chambers; so they have abroad in the country equal share with the priests, and in the outer court or courts about the house twenty chambers or rows of them in which to abide for their conveniences, when, in their courses, they attend the services they were to perform, as porters, singers, and attendants on the priests. <\/P> <\/p>\n And the five and twenty thousand, of length, and ten thousand of breadth<\/strong>,…. This seems to be another portion of the land, distinct from the former, though of the same measure; see Eze 48:13<\/span>:<\/p>\n shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves<\/strong>; separate from the priests, to whom they ministered, and were as numerous; or more numerous, than they; this is still designed to set forth the largeness of the church, and the great numbers of its members, who will all be accommodated and supplied with good things:<\/p>\n for a possession for twenty chambers<\/strong>; which some understand of twenty rows of chambers; by which may be meant particular congregated churches, as we have seen all along in this vision, erected for the better use and convenience of the saints in all places and parts of the world, where they are called.<\/p>\n (5) For a possession for twenty chambers.<\/strong>Adjoining the priests portion of the oblation, another equal portion is assigned to the Levites. The last clause of the verse, as it stands, admits of no satisfactory explanation. The suggestion that it may refer to twenty out of the thirty chambers in the outer court of the sanctuary (Eze. 40:17<\/span>) is quite out of place. Even if these were intended for the use of the Levites (which does not appear), it would be strange that they should be abruptly spoken of in the midst of this description of the oblation. A slight change in the textthe transposition of two letters in the first word, and the change of one letter in the second for another much like itwill make the clause read, for a possession of gates to dwell in, gates<\/em> being used, as in Deu. 12:18<\/span>; Deu. 14:27<\/span>; Deu. 16:11<\/span> (comp. Exo. 20:10<\/span>; Deu. 5:14<\/span>), for cities. The sense would then be that this portion should be to the Levites what the former portion was to the priests, a place for their dwellings.<\/p>\n “And twenty five thousand in length by ten thousand in breadth shall be to the Levites, the ministers of the house, for a possession to themselves, for twenty chambers.”<\/p>\n A further allocation of land is to be given to the Levites, of similar size to that given to the priests. This would seem to be seen by Ezekiel as south of the first holy portion (see Eze 48:8<\/span>), and would seem from Eze 45:6<\/span> and Eze 48:14<\/span> also to be a holy portion. The ‘twenty chambers’ presumably means twenty sets of living quarters and should therefore be thought of as twenty clusters of housing. Again there is a deliberate avoiding of the use of the term ‘city’ (as was also true with the priests). The usage is possibly also to tie this in with the idea of the outer ‘chambers’ in the heavenly temple, places for the use of temple servants. Thus another portion of land strongly expressing the covenant relationship is connected to the heavenly temple, although outside the holy portion.<\/p>\n Eze 45:5<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>And the five and twenty thousand, <\/em><\/strong>&c.<\/strong> And there shall be other five and twenty thousand of length, and ten thousand of breadth; and it shall be for the Levites, the ministers of the house, for them for a<\/em> possession; twenty ranges of building: <\/em>or, as some render the last clause, for cities to dwell in. <\/em>See Archbishop Newcombe on this passage. <\/p>\n Eze 45:5 And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.<\/p>\n Ver. 5. For twenty chambers,<\/strong> ] i.e., <\/em> For twenty rows of chambers.<\/p>\n for = as. <\/p>\n for twenty chambers: or, of cities to dwell in. <\/p>\n the five: Eze 48:10, Eze 48:13, Eze 48:20 <\/p>\n the ministers: 1Co 9:13, 1Co 9:14 <\/p>\n for a possession: Eze 40:17, 1Ch 9:26-33, Neh 10:38, Neh 10:39 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Jer 33:18 – General Eze 45:1 – the length<\/p>\n Eze 45:5. The extra space extending beyond the plot described for the sanctuary but within that measured off in verses 1 and 3 was to be used for the priests in which they would have erected 20 chambers or rooms.<\/p>\n The other Levites would occupy another 25,000 by 10,000 cubits (8.3 miles by 3.3 miles) area beside the one just described (cf. Eze 48:13). It would evidently be immediately to the north. Under the Mosaic system the priests and Levites lived scattered throughout Israel, not all in very close proximity to the temple, as here.<\/p>\n And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten thousand of breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers. 5. Read: and five , and ten shall the Levites have. 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