Hesekiel 45:6

Elberfelder Bibel

Parallel Translations

Schlachter Bibel (1951)
Ihr sollt auch der Stadt einen Grundbesitz geben, 5000 breit und 25,000 lang, entsprechend der Abgabe für das Heiligtum. Das soll dem ganzen Hause Israel gehören.

Lutherbible (1912)
Und der Stadt sollt ihr auch einen Platz lassen für das ganze Haus Israel, fünftausend Ruten breit und fünfundzwanzigtausend lang, neben dem geheiligten Lande.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the city: Ezekiel 48:15-18, Ezekiel 48:30-35

Reciprocal: Ezekiel 45:1 - the length Ezekiel 48:19 - shall serve Zechariah 2:2 - unto

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And ye shall appoint the possession of the city, e.] Which is something distinct from the house or temple, which was as the frame of a city, being so large, and consisting of so many parts, Ezekiel 40:2 and seems also different from the city in Ezekiel 48:30, the measures of the one and of the other not agreeing. Starckius thinks that this city prefigures the academies that should be among Christians, in which the priests or ministers of the word should teach those that came out of all parts unto them but I am rather of opinion that the civil state of the people of God is here meant, as it will be in the spiritual reign of Christ; when all civil power and authority will not as yet be put down, only it will come into the hands of the saints, and be administered by Christian kings and princes.

Five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the oblation of the holy portion; five thousand reeds in breadth are allowed less for the civil than the church state; and though they are contiguous, and there is a connection between them, yet are separate from each other; the material temple was in the city of Jerusalem; but the holy portion, in which the sanctuary shall be, is without the city, and the city over against that; hence John seems, to have borrowed his idea and language, "I saw no temple therein", Revelation 21:22, though speaking of another city: the church and the world shall be no more mixed together; Christ's kingdom is not of this world, nor to be fixed on a civil establishment:

it shall be for the whole house of Israel; they shall all be under one and the same form of government; I do not say they shall be all under one temporal king or prince; but all Christian kings and princes shall exercise the same kind of rule and government; so that, as their church state will be uniform, their civil state or polity will be alike.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This portion is to belong to the whole people, not to be subject to the encroachments made by the later kings of Judah Jeremiah 22:13. The Levites’ portion 10,000 reeds, the priests’ portion 10,000 reeds, and the city portion 5,000 reeds. make in all 25,000 reeds from north to south. The measure of each of these portions from east to west has been defined to be 25,000 reeds (Ezekiel 45:1 note), and thus we have a square of 25,000 in all.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 45:6. Ye shall appoint — See the plan, FF. Ezekiel 48:35.