Ezequiel 44:14

La Biblia Reina-Valera

Pondrélos, pues, por guardas de la guarda de la casa en todo su servicio, y en todo lo que en ella hubiere de hacerse.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
‘Los pondré como guardas de las ordenanzas del templo, de todo su servicio y de todo lo que se ha de hacer en él.

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez
Los pondr�, pues, por guardas de las ordenanzas del templo para todo su servicio, y para todo lo que en �l hubiere de hacerse.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Les pondr�, pues, por guardas encargados de la custodia de la casa para todo su servicio, y para todo lo que en ella haya de hacerse.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 18:4, 1 Chronicles 23:28-32

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 9:23 - the oversight Ezekiel 44:8 - charge Ezekiel 44:11 - having charge Ezekiel 45:4 - which

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house,.... To be watchmen or porters in it; to open and shut the doors of it; to sweep and keep it clean; to repair and mend it, and to do such like works, as it follows:

for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein; in a servile way; but not as priests or ministers of the word.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Admonition to the ministering priests, grounded upon former neglect.

Ezekiel 44:4

The north gate before the house - The north gate of the inner court. God expostulates with His people in the seat of their former idolatries Ezekiel 8:3.

Ezekiel 44:5

Mark well - The careful arrangements made had all been intended to keep the temple and its surroundings from profanation. Hence, attention to these particulars is enjoined.

Ezekiel 44:7

Strangers - This refers especially to the sin of unauthorized and unfaithful priests ministering in the services of the temple. Compare marginal references.

Ezekiel 44:8

Mine holy things - The altar, its sacrifices, the sacred utensils, and the like.

For yourselves - According to your own pleasure, not My ordinances Numbers 16:40.

Ezekiel 44:10

The Levites as a body had remained true to the temple-service at Jerusalem 2 Chronicles 11:13; but individuals among them deserted to Israel probably from the first (see the marginal references), as in later years some went over to the worship of the Samaritans on Mount Gerizim. These apostate Levites “shall bear their iniquities,” they shall not be restored to their former rank and privileges.

Ezekiel 44:11

Ministers - As, according to the new system, the Levites, as a body, were to receive their portion in the “oblation” Ezekiel 45:5; the only manner in which the Levites of Ezekiel 44:10 could live at all, was as part of the whole body, to which they were therefore reunited, but in the lowest grade. It is remarkable that the number of Levites who returned after the captivity was very small, not exceeding 400, of whom only 74 were priests’ assistants (Ezra 2:40-42; compare Ezra 8:15-19). The gap in their number was filled up by 220 Nethinim (“given” ones), probably originally strangers and captives, who, although employed in the temple services, were held by the Jews in the lowest repute.

Ezekiel 44:12

Lifted up mine hand - i. e., “The Lord sware” Ezekiel 20:5, that they should bear their iniquities.