# Ezekiel 45 📖: Holy Land and Honest Measures [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[-Ezekiel Overview]] | [[Ezekiel 44]] | [[Ezekiel 46]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] > [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]] > [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] > [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]] > [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] > [[#💬 Discussion Questions]] > [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] > [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[#📂 Internal Notes]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### The Lord’s Portion of the Land [[#Verse 01.]] “‘When you allot the land as an inheritance, you will offer an allotment to the Lord, a holy portion from the land; the length will be 8¼ miles and the width 3⅓ miles. This entire area will be holy.  [[#Verse 02.]] Of this area a square 875 feet by 875 feet will be designated for the sanctuary, with 87½ feet set aside for its open space round about.  [[#Verse 03.]] From this measured area you will measure a length of 8¼ miles and a width of 3⅓ miles; in it will be the sanctuary, the Most Holy Place.  [[#Verse 04.]] It will be a holy portion of the land; it will be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary who approach the Lord to minister to him. It will be a place for their houses and a holy place for the sanctuary.  [[#Verse 05.]] An area 8¼ miles in length and 3⅓ miles in width will be for the Levites, who minister at the temple, as the place for the cities in which they will live. [[#Verse 06.]] “‘Alongside the portion set apart as the holy allotment, you will allot for the city an area 1⅔ miles wide and 8¼ miles long; it will be for the whole house of Israel. [[#Verse 07.]] “‘For the prince there will be land on both sides of the holy allotment and the allotted city, on the west side and on the east side; it will be comparable in length to one of the portions, from the west border to the east border  [[#Verse 08.]] of the land. This will be his property in Israel. My princes will no longer oppress my people, but the land will be allotted to the house of Israel according to their tribes. [[#Verse 09.]] “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and destruction and do what is just and right. Put an end to your evictions of my people, declares the Sovereign Lord. [[#Verse 10.]] You must use just balances, a just dry measure (an ephah), and a just liquid measure (a bath).  [[#Verse 11.]] The dry and liquid measures will be the same: The bath will contain a tenth of a homer, and the ephah a tenth of a homer; the homer will be the standard measure.  [[#Verse 12.]] The shekel will be twenty gerahs. Sixty shekels will be a mina for you. [[#Verse 13.]] “‘This is the offering you must offer: a sixth of an ephah from a homer of wheat, a sixth of an ephah from a homer of barley,  [[#Verse 14.]] and as the prescribed portion of olive oil, one-tenth of a bath from each cor (which is ten baths or a homer, for ten baths make a homer);  [[#Verse 15.]] and one sheep from each flock of 200, from the watered places of Israel, for a grain offering, burnt offering, and peace offering, to make atonement for them, declares the Sovereign Lord.  [[#Verse 16.]] All the people of the land will contribute to this offering for the prince of Israel.  [[#Verse 17.]] It will be the duty of the prince to provide the burnt offerings, the grain offering, and the drink offering at festivals, on the new moons and Sabbaths, at all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel; he will provide the sin offering, the grain offering, the burnt offering, and the peace offerings to make atonement for the house of Israel. [[#Verse 18.]] “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you must take an unblemished young bull and purify the sanctuary.  [[#Verse 19.]] The priest will take some of the blood of the sin offering and place it on the doorpost of the temple, on the four corners of the ledge of the altar, and on the doorpost of the gate of the inner court.  [[#Verse 20.]] This is what you must do on the seventh day of the month for anyone who sins inadvertently or through ignorance; so you will make atonement for the temple. [[#Verse 21.]] “‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you will celebrate the Passover, and for the seven days of the festival bread made without yeast will be eaten.  [[#Verse 22.]] On that day the prince will provide for himself and for all the people of the land a bull for a sin offering. [[#Verse 23.]] And during the seven days of the feast he will provide as a burnt offering to the Lord seven bulls and seven rams, all without blemish, on each of the seven days, and a male goat daily for a sin offering.  [[#Verse 24.]] He will provide as a grain offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a gallon of olive oil for each ephah of grain.  [[#Verse 25.]] In the seventh month, on the fifteenth day of the month, at the feast, he will make the same provisions for the sin offering, burnt offering, and grain offering, and for the olive oil, for the seven days. ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights 1. A holy district of 25,000 by 20,000 units was set apart for the Lord (45:1). 2. The sanctuary itself stood on a square of 500 by 500 (45:2). 3. Land was given to the priests, the Levites, the city, and the prince (45:3-8). 4. The prince received land so he would not seize the people's property (45:8), unlike King Ahab with Naboth's vineyard (1 Kings 21). 5. God commands, "Stop your violence and oppression" (45:9), a direct word to Israel's rulers. 6. The ephah (dry measure) and the bath (liquid measure) were to be the same size, a tenth of a homer (45:11). 7. A shekel was to equal twenty gerahs (45:12). 8. The people gave a small portion, such as a sixtieth of an ephah of wheat, as an offering for the prince to present (45:13-16). 9. The sanctuary was purified on the first day of the first month (45:18). 10. Passover was kept on the fourteenth day of the first month as a seven-day feast (45:21). ## 🧠 Chapter Summary > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter Christ is the righteous Prince who rules with justice. God told Israel's princes to stop their violence and use honest scales (45:9-10), and Jesus is the King who reigns in righteousness and came to serve and give His life for many (Isaiah 32:1; Mark 10:45). ## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 💬 Discussion Questions 1. God set aside the first portion of the land for Himself (45:1). What does it look like to give God the first and best of what we have? 2. The prince was given land so he would not oppress the people (45:8). How should leaders use what God has given them? 3. God commanded honest weights and measures (45:10). Where is honesty tested in your everyday dealings? ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 verse 1: A holy portion of the land is set apart for the Lord. - 📖 verse 9: Stop your violence and oppression and do what is just and right. - 📖 verse 10: Use honest scales and honest measures. ## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference - 🔗 [[Isaiah 32#Verse 01.|Isaiah 32:1]] - A king will reign in righteousness. - 🔗 [[Mark 10#Verse 45.|Mark 10:45]] - The Son of Man came to serve. - 🔗 [[Proverbs 11#Verse 01.|Proverbs 11:1]] - The Lord hates dishonest scales. - 🔗 [[Leviticus 19#Verse 35.|Leviticus 19:35-36]] - Use honest weights and measures. - 🔗 [[Micah 06#Verse 08.|Micah 6:8]] - Do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with God. ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection 📝 SOAP: [[Ezekiel 45 - SOAP|Measuring What Matters]] ## 📂 Internal Notes