{"id":21682,"date":"2022-09-24T09:08:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T14:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-ezekiel-4616\/"},"modified":"2022-09-24T09:08:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T14:08:03","slug":"exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-ezekiel-4616","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-ezekiel-4616\/","title":{"rendered":"Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 46:16"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align='center'><b><i> Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons&#8217;; it [shall be] their possession by inheritance. <\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p> <strong> 16 18<\/strong>. Case of the prince alienating any part of his landed property to his sons or servants<\/p>\n<p> If given to his sons the gift shall remain with them as their inheritance (<span class='bible'><em> Eze 46:16<\/em><\/span>); if given to any of his servants it shall revert to the prince at the year of liberty (<span class='bible'><em> Eze 46:17<\/em><\/span>).<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.75em\">The prince was robe provided with possessions of his own, in order to prevent exactions from his subjects; further enactments are added to prevent the alienation of the princes land. Any gifts made to his servants must revert to the prince in the year of liberty, or jubilee (see the marginal reference note).<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Albert Barnes&#8217; Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P> <B>A gift, <\/B>of houses or lands. <\/P> <P><B>The inheritance thereof, <\/B>the right to those houses or lands, shall descend to childrens children; the fee simple shall be to the posterity of that son to whom it was first given. They shall enjoy it, possess it, as heirs possess an inheritance. <\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><P><B>16-18.<\/B> The prince&#8217;s possessionis to be inalienable, and any portion given to a servant is to revertto his sons at the year of jubilee, that he may have no temptation tospoil his people of their inheritance, as formerly (compare Ahab andNaboth, <span class='bible'>1Ki 21:1-29<\/span>).The mention of the year of jubilee implies that there is somethingliteral meant, besides the spiritual sense. The jubilee year wasrestored after the captivity [JOSEPHUS,<I>Antiquities,<\/I> 14.10,6; <U>1 Maccabees 6:49<\/U>]. Perhaps itwill be restored under Messiah&#8217;s coming reign. Compare <span class='bible'>Isa 61:2<\/span>;<span class='bible'>Isa 61:3<\/span>, where &#8220;theacceptable year of the Lord&#8221; is closely connected with thecomforting of the mourners in Zion, and &#8220;the day of vengeance&#8221;on Zion&#8217;s foes. The mention of the prince&#8217;s <I>sons<\/I> is anotherargument against Messiah being meant by &#8220;the prince.&#8221;<\/P><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown&#8217;s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong>Thus saith the Lord God<\/strong>,&#8230;. Having finished the account of the sacrifices of the prince and people, the monthly, weekly, and daily ones; here his gifts are treated of, which are two fold; some given to his sons, others to his servants:<\/p>\n<p><strong>if the prince give a gift to any of his sons<\/strong>; Christ, the Prince, has sons; he that is the Prince, of peace is the everlasting Father; he has children given unto him, whom he preserves; a seed promised him in covenant, which shall always endure; a family he is master of, and cares for; for whose sake he became incarnate, suffered, and died: they are sons by adopting grace, and in their adoption he has a great concern; they are predestinated to it by him; they receive it through him; he gives them power to become the sons of God, and they are manifestatively so through faith in him; they appear to be his sons, or are evidenced as such by their regeneration, which also is of him: it is by his Spirit they are regenerated; it is his grace that is implanted in them; it is he himself that is formed in them, and his image that is stamped upon them; it is owing to his word and Gospel as the means and to his resurrection as the virtual cause of it; it is in his church they are born, yea, of her, to whom he stands in the relation of a husband, and so they are sons brought forth to him by her; and these are princes by birth, have a free and princely spirit, and are brought up and provided for as such: now to these Christ gives gifts; gifts of special grace, all sorts of grace; sanctifying grace, faith, hope, love, repentance, c. justifying grace, the gift of righteousness; pardoning grace; adopting grace; all supplies of grace; spiritual strength, peace, joy and comfort; and persevering grace, to hold out to the end: and he also gives glory or eternal life; this is with him, in his hands; he has a power to give and he does give it, to all his sons; all which, being once given, ever continue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The inheritance thereof shall be his sons&#8217;, it shall be their possession by inheritance<\/strong>; that is, it shall ever remain with them, shall never be taken away from them; these are gifts and calling without repentance, irreversible blessings, which are for ever: sanctifying grace is a well of living water, springing up unto eternal life; faith, hope, and love, always abide; Christ&#8217;s justifying righteousness is an everlasting one; pardon of sin is of all sin, past, present, and to come, and is never made void or called in; once children of God, and always such; and the inheritance of heaven is incorruptible, never fading, and eternal; and all this flows from the unchangeable love of God and Christ to these sons of the prince.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Gill&#8217;s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> On the Right of the Prince to Dispose of his Landed Property<\/p>\n<p><span class='bible'>Eze 46:16<\/span>. <em> Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, If the prince gives a present to one of his sons, it is his inheritance, shall belong to his sons; it is their possession, in an hereditary way. <\/em> <span class='bible'>Eze 46:17<\/span>.<em> But if he gives a present from his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall belong to him till the year of liberty, and then return to the prince; to his sons alone shall his inheritance remain. <\/em> <span class='bible'>Eze 46:18<\/span>.<em> And the prince shall not take from the inheritance of the people, so as to thrust them out of their possession; from his own possession he shall transmit to his sons, that no one of my people be scattered from his possession.<\/em> &#8211; According to <span class='bible'>Eze 45:7-8<\/span>, at the future division of the land among the tribes, a possession was to be given to the prince on both sides of the holy heave and of the city domain, that he might not seize upon a possession by force, as the former princes had done. The prince might give away portions of this royal property, but only within such limits that the design with which a regal possession had been granted might not be frustrated. To his sons, as his heirs, he might make gifts therefrom, which would remain their own property; but if he presented to any one of his servants a portion of his hereditary property, it was to revert to the prince in the year of liberty; just as, according to the Mosaic law, the hereditary field of an Israelite, which had been alienated, was to revert to its hereditary owner (<span class='bible'>Lev 27:24<\/span>, compared with <span class='bible'>Lev 25:10-13<\/span>). The suffix in  (<span class='bible'>Eze 46:16<\/span>) is not to be taken as referring to the prince, and connected with the preceding words in opposition to the accents, but refers to   . What the prince gives to one of his sons from his landed property shall be his  , i.e., after the manner of an hereditary possession. On the other hand, what the prince presents to one of his servants shall not become hereditary in his case, but shall revert to the prince in the year of liberty, or the year of jubilee. The second half of <span class='bible'>Eze 46:17<\/span> reads verbally thus: &ldquo;only his inheritance is it; as for his sons, it shall belong to them.&rdquo; &#8211; And as the prince was not to break up his regal possession by presents made to servants, so was he (<span class='bible'>Eze 46:18<\/span>) also not to put any one out of his possession by force, for the purpose, say, of procuring property for his own sons; but was to give his sons their inheritance from his own property alone. For  , compare <span class='bible'>Eze 45:8<\/span>, and such passages as <span class='bible'>1Sa 8:14<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Sa 22:7<\/span>. We shall return by and by to the question, how this regulation stands related to the view that the prince is the Messiah.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Keil &amp; Delitzsch Commentary on the Old Testament<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><TABLE BORDER=\"0\" CELLPADDING=\"1\" CELLSPACING=\"0\"> <TR> <TD> <P ALIGN=\"LEFT\" STYLE=\"background: transparent;border: none;padding: 0in;font-weight: normal;text-decoration: none\"> <span style='font-size:1.25em;line-height:1em'><I><SPAN STYLE=\"background: transparent\"><SPAN STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\">Laws Concerning the Prince&#8217;s Inheritance.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/I><\/span><\/P> <\/TD> <TD> <P ALIGN=\"RIGHT\" STYLE=\"background: transparent;border: none;padding: 0in\"> <SPAN STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\"><FONT SIZE=\"1\" STYLE=\"font-size: 8pt\"><SPAN STYLE=\"font-style: normal\"><SPAN STYLE=\"font-weight: normal\"><SPAN STYLE=\"background: transparent\"><SPAN STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\">B. C.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><SPAN STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\"><SPAN STYLE=\"font-style: normal\"><SPAN STYLE=\"font-weight: normal\"><SPAN STYLE=\"background: transparent\"><SPAN STYLE=\"text-decoration: none\"> 574.<\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/SPAN><\/FONT><\/P> <\/TD> <\/TR>  <\/TABLE> <P>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 16 Thus saith the Lord G<B>OD<\/B>; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons&#8217;; it <I>shall be<\/I> their possession by inheritance. &nbsp; 17 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons&#8217; for them. &nbsp; 18 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people&#8217;s inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; <I>but<\/I> he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession.<\/P> <P> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; We have here a law for the limiting of the power of the prince in the disposing of the crown-lands. 1. If he have a <I>son<\/I> that is a favourite, or has merited well, he may, if he please, as a token of his favour and in recompence for his services, settle some parts of his lands upon him and his heirs for ever (<span class='bible'><I>v.<\/I><\/span><span class='bible'> 16<\/span>), provided it do not go out of the family. There may be a cause for parents, when their children have grown up, to be more kind to one than to another, as Jacob gave to Joseph one portion <I>above his brethren,<\/I><span class='bible'><I> Gen. xlviii. 22<\/I><\/span>. 2. Yet, if he have a servant that is a favourite, he may not in like manner settle lands upon him, <span class='bible'><I>v.<\/I><\/span><span class='bible'> 17<\/span>. The servant might have the rents, issues, and profits, for such a term, but the inheritance, the <I>jus proprietarium&#8211;the right of proprietorship,<\/I> shall remain in the prince and his heirs. It was fit that a difference should be put between a child and a servant, like that <span class='bible'>John viii. 35<\/span>. <I>The servant abides not in the house for ever,<\/I> as the son does. 3. What estates he gives his children must be of his own (<span class='bible'><I>v.<\/I><\/span><span class='bible'> 18<\/span>): He <I>shall not take of the people&#8217;s inheritance,<\/I> under pretence of having many children to provide for; he shall not find ways to make them forfeit their estates, or to force them to sell them and so <I>thrust his subjects out of their possession;<\/I> but let him and his sons be content with their own. It is far from being a prince&#8217;s honour to increase the wealth of his family and crown by encroaching upon the rights and properties of his subjects; nor will he himself be a gainer by it at last, for he will be but a poor prince when the people are <I>scattered every man from his possession,<\/I> when they quit their native country, being forced out of it by oppression, choosing rather to live among strangers that are free people, and where what they have they can call their own, be it ever so little. It is the interest of princes to rule in the hearts of their subjects, and then all they have is, in the best manner, at their service. It is better for themselves to gain their affections by protecting their rights than to gain their estates by invading them.<\/P> <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Matthew Henry&#8217;s Whole Bible Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>6. The inheritance of the prince (46:1618)<\/p>\n<p><strong>TRANSLATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(16) Thus says the Lord GOD: If the prince gives a gift unto any of his sons, it is his inheritance, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance. (17) But if he gives of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons. (18) Moreover, the prince shall not take of the peoples inheritance, to thrust them out of their possession; he shall give inheritance to his sons out of his own possession, that My people be not scattered every man from his possession.<\/p>\n<p><strong>COMMENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having spoken of the offerings that a prince might give to God, a pronouncement is made about gifts which the prince might make to others. A gift of property given by the prince to his sons was to be regarded as a possession by inheritance. That property would not revert to its original owner in the year of Jubilee (<span class='bible'>Eze. 46:16<\/span>). However, royal property given to a servant was to revert back to the prince in the year of liberty (Jubilee year) which occurred every fiftieth year (<span class='bible'>Eze. 46:17<\/span>). Moreover, in the new era the prince was to respect the property rights of his subjects. Confiscations of property by the crown as in the case of Naboths vineyard (<span class='bible'>1 Kings 21<\/span>) would be a thing of the past (Y. 18).<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: College Press Bible Study Textbook Series<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>(16) <strong>If the prince give a gift.<\/strong><span class='bible'>Eze. 46:15-18<\/span> contain provisions in regard to the princes alienation of his domain. According to <span class='bible'>Eze. 45:7-8<\/span>, he was to have a portion of land on each side of the oblation, which should be sufficiently ample to prevent any attempts on his part at violence and exaction. For the same purpose, it was necessary that this territory should remain inalienably in his family. He might therefore convey any portion of it to his sons in fee simple, for they would naturally inherit it; but a conveyance to any one else came under the Mosaic law (<span class='bible'>Leviticus 25<\/span>), and reverted to him or his heirs in the year of Jubile, here called the year of liberty.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Ellicott&#8217;s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> <strong> 16-18<\/strong>. <strong> <\/strong> These regulations protecting the sons of the prince prove that Ezekiel thought of him as a civil officer. The old interpreters who tried to make every phrase concerning the prince point to a coming heavenly Messiah were wrong. That every ceremonial act of the prince, king, and priests, in the Hebrew, as in every other ancient ritual, was intended to teach some religious lesson cannot be doubted; but what these lessons were must be determined by the symbolic language of the age and not by pressing our Christian conceptions into the Old Testament law (note <span class='bible'>Eze 43:10-11<\/span>). The property of the prince (<span class='bible'>Eze 45:7-8<\/span>) if given to a servant must revert back to the prince at the &ldquo;year of release&rdquo; (probably the fiftieth, the year of jubilee, <span class='bible'>Lev 25:10<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Lev 27:24<\/span>; though it is possibly the seventh, the year of release from debts, <span class='bible'>Jer 34:14<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Deu 15:12<\/span>). But the gifts of the prince to his sons should be theirs forever: &ldquo;as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons&rdquo; (R.V., <span class='bible'>Eze 46:17<\/span>). The prince must not, however, take any of the people&rsquo;s lands in order to increase the inheritance of the royal princes (<span class='bible'>Eze 46:18<\/span>; compare <span class='bible'>1 Kings 21<\/span>). The rights of each Hebrew citizen to a portion of the land were sacredly guarded by the old law (<span class='bible'>Lev 25:23<\/span>; <span class='bible'>Numbers 26, 27<\/span>).<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Whedon&#8217;s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> &lsquo;Thus says the Lord Yahweh, &ldquo;If the prince give a gift to any of his sons, it is his inheritance. It shall belong to his sons. It is their possession by inheritance.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> The portion is God&rsquo;s gift to the prince and his successors and is his permanently. If he passes any along to his sons, it is theirs permanently. It is his permanent inheritance, and theirs.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong> The Sacrificial Kitchens<strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 16. Thus saith the Lord God,<\/strong> in making provisions for the future, lest conditions arise which would result in acts of violence on the part of the ruler, <strong> If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons&#8217;; it shall be their possession by inheritance,<\/strong> to remain permanently under their dominion. <strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 17. But if he give a gift of his inheritance,<\/strong> of the special land set aside for his use and enjoyment, <strong> to one of his servants,<\/strong> as a reward of service or loyalty, <strong> then it shall be his to the year of liberty,<\/strong> the so-called year of the jubilee, <span class='bible'>Lev 25:10<\/span>; <strong> after, it shall return to the prince,<\/strong> revert to him as his property; <strong> but his inheritance shall be his sons&#8217; for them,<\/strong> that is, only what the prince has presented to his Sons shall remain in their property at that time. <strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 18. Moreover, the prince shall not take of the people&#8217;s inheritance by oppression,<\/strong> a feature against which these ordinances guarded, <strong> to thrust them out of their possession,<\/strong> as when Ahab took Naboth&#8217;s vineyard; <strong> but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession,<\/strong> Cf <span class='bible'>1Sa 8:14<\/span>; <span class='bible'>1Sa 22:7<\/span>, <strong> that My people be not scattered every man from his possession. <\/p>\n<p>v. 19. After,<\/strong> that is, afterward, <strong> He brought me through the entry which was at the side of the gate,<\/strong> the entry mentioned <span class='bible'>Eze 42:9<\/span>, <strong> into the holy chambers of the priests,<\/strong> those nearest to the inner north gate, <strong> which looked toward the north; and, behold, there was a place on the two sides westward,<\/strong> a section of the Temple area which had not yet been described. <strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 20. Then said He unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass-offering and the sin-offering, where they shall bake the meat-offering,<\/strong> the food of the priests thus being prepared in immediate proximity to their chambers lest its sanctity be in any way polluted, <strong> that they bear them not out into the utter court to sanctify the people,<\/strong> to bring them into contact with this consecrated food and thus to defeat the object of the ordinance. <strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 21. Then He brought me forth into the utter court and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court,<\/strong> a smaller tributary of the larger court. <strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 22. In the four corners of the court there were courts joined,<\/strong> closed, shut off from the rest of the court, <strong> of forty cubits long and thirty broad; these four corners were of one measure,<\/strong> of the same size. <strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 23. And there was a row of building round about in them,<\/strong> along their walls, <strong> round about them four, and it was made with boiling-places under the rows round about,<\/strong> roofed cooking apartments or kitchenettes, with a fireplace in each, next to the walls. <strong><\/p>\n<p>v. 24. Then said He unto me, These are the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house,<\/strong> the ordinary Levites as servants of the Sanctuary, <strong> shall boil the sacrifice of the people,<\/strong> that part which belonged to the priests. By the sacrificial meals eaten by the people, then, was the communion and fellowship of all believers brought out symbolically. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Popular Commentary on the Bible by Kretzmann<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p> Eze 46:16 Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons&rsquo;; it [shall be] their possession by inheritance.<\/p>\n<p> Ver. 16. <strong> If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons.<\/strong> ] As Jehoshaphat did cities to every one of his sons; though they long enjoyed them not, through the barbarous cruelty of their elder brother Jehoram. Christ, the Church&rsquo;s king, giveth all his children gifts of great price; such as the world can neither give nor take from them, &#8220;spiritual blessings in heavenly&#8221; things and &#8220;places&#8221;; Eph 1:3 yea, he bestoweth himself upon them, and is therefore called &#8220;The gift,&#8221; Joh 4:10 and &#8220;The benefit.&#8221; 1Ti 6:2 <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: John Trapp&#8217;s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: Eze 46:16-18<\/p>\n<p> 16&#8217;Thus says the Lord God, If the prince gives a gift out of his inheritance to any of his sons, it shall belong to his sons; it is their possession by inheritance. 17But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it shall be his until the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince. His inheritance shall be only his sons&#8217;; it shall belong to them. 18The prince shall not take from the people&#8217;s inheritance, thrusting them out of their possession; he shall give his sons inheritance from his own possession so that My people will not be scattered, anyone from his possession.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Eze 46:17 the year of liberty This refers to the year of Jubilee (cf. Lev 25:8-17, esp. Eze 46:10), in which the land returns to its original tribal owners because the land was a gift from YHWH (cf. Joshua 13-23).<\/p>\n<p>Eze 46:18 This verse links to Eze 45:8, where the prince is given a large section of land to keep him from taking common land from the people.<\/p>\n<p>This shows that the prince was understood as a person still affected by Genesis 3. This would not fit a NT understanding of Messiah (this is also true of Isa 42:1 vs. Eze 42:18-19). Oppression was often associated with the kingship (cf. Eze 18:7; Eze 18:12; Eze 18:16).<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: You Can Understand the Bible: Study Guide Commentary Series by Bob Utley<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>sons. The Septuagint and Syriac read &#8220;son&#8217;s <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Eze 46:16-18<\/p>\n<p>Eze 46:16-18<\/p>\n<p>Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons&#8217;; it shall be their possession by inheritance.  17  But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons&#8217; for them.  18  Moreover the prince shall not take of the people&#8217;s inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their possession; but he shall give his sons inheritance out of his own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from his possession. <\/p>\n<p>Regulations concerning the prince and his property. Eze 46:16-18.<\/p>\n<p>The preexilic kings were able to increase the property holdings of the crown by purchasing available property (2Sa 24:24; 1Ki 16:24). The prince will exercise the same right of purchase and will be able to increase his land holdings by purchase of available property (Eze 46:16).  Inheritance and property rights were extremely important and carefully guarded by the Israelites.  All property was to be returned to its original owner or family in the Year of Jubilee (Lev 25:10).  The same regulation will apply to all property given by the prince to a servant (Eze 46:17).  Any property given by the prince to one of his sons will be theirs in perpetuity, but the prince is specifically prohibited from taking the property of others and giving it to his sons (Eze 46:18).<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Old and New Testaments Restoration Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>If the prince: Gen 25:5, Gen 25:6, 2Ch 21:3, Psa 37:18, Mat 25:34, Luk 10:42, Joh 8:35, Joh 8:36, Rom 8:15-17, Rom 8:29-32, Gal 4:7 <\/p>\n<p>Reciprocal: 1Sa 10:25 &#8211; General Eze 45:7 &#8211; General<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Eze 46:16, The main point in this verse is that a gift of real estate from a prince to his son was to be permanent. That is, no circumstance was to alter that gift so as to turn it back to the prince.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Combined Bible Commentary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Eze 46:16-18. If the prince give a gift, &amp;c.  By these verses we learn, that even gifts, or legacies of lands, could only be granted till the year of jubilee, except to a persons own heirs; for at that period all such gifts or grants devolved again to the original possessors, or their heirs. It shall be his to the year of liberty  That is, of jubilee, called the year of liberty, because it freed mens persons from the service of their masters, and their estates from any engagements by which the right of them was transferred from their proper owners. After it shall return to the prince  Or to his heirs, if he be dead. But his inheritance shall be his sons for them  Or, his inheritance shall belong to his sons; it shall be theirs so as not to be alienated. The prince shall not take of the peoples inheritance  As Ahab did, 1Ki 21:16. That my people be not scattered  Lest, being turned out of their own, they be forced to wander up and down the country for a livelihood.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>Eze 46:16-18. Crown Rights and Restrictions.The prince was at liberty to gift part of his estate inalienably to his sons: but what was deeded to a courtier reverted to the crown on the year of release (i.e. the seventh year, cf. Jer 34:14, or, less probably, the fiftieth year, cf. Lev 25:10). The prince was not at liberty to appropriate, under any pretext, any of the land of the common people, as Ahab had seized the vineyard of Naboth (1 Kings 21).<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Peake&#8217;s Commentary on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold\">The prince&rsquo;s gifts 46:16-18<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Expository Notes of Dr. Constable (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n<p>The prince could give a gift to any of his sons out of his own inheritance from the Lord. This gift was theirs forever. However, if he gave such a gift to one of his servants, it would revert back to the prince on the year of liberty. This year would evidently be similar to the year of jubilee (every fiftieth year) under the Mosaic Covenant (cf. Lev 25:10; Lev 27:24). Its purpose, in the past and in the future, is to remind God&rsquo;s people that He owns everything and that they only occupy and manage what He has entrusted to them.<\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: Expository Notes of Dr. Constable (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thus saith the Lord GOD; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons&#8217;; it [shall be] their possession by inheritance. 16 18. Case of the prince alienating any part of his landed property to his sons or servants If given to his sons the gift &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/exegetical-and-hermeneutical-commentary-of-ezekiel-4616\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 46:16&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}