KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Ezekiel 48:11–16
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Ezekiel 48:11
11It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.
11‖‖ It shall be for the Priests that are sanctified, of the sonnes of Zadok, which haue kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Leuites went astray.
- Or, the sanctified portion shall be for the priests.
- Or, ward, or, ordinance.
Ezekiel 48:12
12And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.
12And this oblation of the land that is offred, shalbe vnto them a thing most holy by the border of the Leuites.
Ezekiel 48:13
13And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.
13And ouer against the border of the Priests, the Leuites shall haue fiue and twentie thousand in length, and tenne thousand in bredth: all the length shalbe fiue and twentie thousand, and the bredth tenne thousand.
Ezekiel 48:14
14And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the firstfruits of the land: for it is holy unto the Lord.
14And they shall not sell of it, neither exchange, nor alienate the first fruits of the land: for it is holy vnto the LORD.
Ezekiel 48:15
15¶ And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
15¶ And the fiue thousand that are left in the breadth ouer against the fiue and twentie thousand, shall bee a prophane place for the citie, for dwelling, and for suburbs, and the citie shall be in the midst thereof.
Ezekiel 48:16
16And these shall be the measures thereof; the north side four thousand and five hundred, and the south side four thousand and five hundred, and on the east side four thousand and five hundred, and the west side four thousand and five hundred.
16And these shall bee the measures thereof, the North side foure thousand and fiue hundred, and the South side foure thousand and fiue hundred, and on the East side foure thousand, and fiue hundred, and the West side foure thousand and fiue hundred.
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DEFINED WORDS
Ezekiel 48:11
Persons who officiate in sacred service, especially by offering sacrifices or ministering in worship; KJV contexts distinguish Mosaic priests, priests of other gods, chief priests, and persons made priests unto God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (headword: priest)
Retained, guarded, observed, or preserved.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
To command, enjoin, entrust, accuse, or place under someone's care; as a noun, a command, duty, trust, accusation, or person or thing entrusted, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893) · Webster 1828 · KJV usage
Sons or daughters; descendants; or persons likened to children by age, relation, or character.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The name given to Jacob and, by extension, his descendants, their nation, or the people so called in Scripture.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Members of the tribe of Levi, especially those appointed to service connected with the tabernacle or temple.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Ezekiel 48:12
An offering presented to God.
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The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region.
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Presented for acceptance or rejection; presented in worship or sacrifice; or set before the eye or mind.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
Greatest in amount, number, or degree; in the highest degree.
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Belonging to God or set apart for him; sacred; morally pure. Applied to God, it expresses his perfect purity; in Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit, it identifies the Spirit of God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
The edge, boundary, or limit of a country, region, garment, or object.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
Members of the tribe of Levi, especially those appointed to service connected with the tabernacle or temple.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Ezekiel 48:13
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893)
The edge, boundary, or limit of a country, region, garment, or object.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
Persons who officiate in sacred service, especially by offering sacrifices or ministering in worship; KJV contexts distinguish Mosaic priests, priests of other gods, chief priests, and persons made priests unto God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (headword: priest)
Members of the tribe of Levi, especially those appointed to service connected with the tabernacle or temple.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The number following four and preceding six.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The extent from one end to another; also duration or a stated span of time.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Width; the measure or extent of something from side to side.
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Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
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DEFINED WORDS
Ezekiel 48:14
To transfer or give over for a price; to betray or surrender, including giving oneself over to evil, according to context.
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The contract by which one commodity is transferred to another for an equivalent commodity.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
To estrange or separate in affection, relationship, or possession.
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The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
Belonging to God or set apart for him; sacred; morally pure. Applied to God, it expresses his perfect purity; in Holy Ghost or Holy Spirit, it identifies the Spirit of God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
Ezekiel 48:15
The number following four and preceding six.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Departed from, allowed to remain, or abandoned.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Width; the measure or extent of something from side to side.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Opposed to, contrary to, facing, toward, or in contact with; in some settings, exposed to or ready for a stated time.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat, Bible Words Glossary (1893)
Not sacred or consecrated; to treat holy things as common.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
A location, position, room, occasion, office, or passage, according to context.
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The middle or central part; the position among or surrounded by others.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
DEFINED WORDS
Ezekiel 48:16
Standards, vessels, or amounts used in measuring; also determines, allots, or proportions.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The northern direction, side, quarter, or region named by the verse.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage
A lateral part, edge, or surface; also a party or position in a dispute.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The number following three and preceding five.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The number following four and preceding six.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The number equal to ten times ten.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The direction of sunrise; lands or regions toward that direction.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage
The direction of sunset; the western region; or toward or from that direction.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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From verse 11
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Open the full verse study46And the chamber whose prospect is toward the north is for the priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the Lord to minister unto him.
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Open the full verse study10And the Levites that are gone away far from me, when Israel went astray, which went astray away from me after their idols; they shall even bear their iniquity.
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Open the full verse study45Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
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Open the full verse study4And when the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
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Open the full verse study7I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:
8Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
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Open the full verse study19And thou shalt give to the priests the Levites that be of the seed of Zadok, which approach unto me, to minister unto me, saith the Lord God, a young bullock for a sin offering.
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Open the full verse study15¶ But the priests the Levites, the sons of Zadok, that kept the charge of my sanctuary when the children of Israel went astray from me, they shall come near to me to minister unto me, and they shall stand before me to offer unto me the fat and the blood, saith the Lord God:
16They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.
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Open the full verse study10Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
From verse 12
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Open the full verse study4The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the Lord: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for the sanctuary.
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Open the full verse study21But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy unto the Lord, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be the priest’s.
From verse 13
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Open the full verse study19Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.
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Open the full verse study3And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place.
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Open the full verse study5And 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.
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Open the full verse study7And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house to house.
From verse 14
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Open the full verse study28Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the Lord of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the Lord.
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Open the full verse study9And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the Lord, all that any man giveth of such unto the Lord shall be holy.
10He shall not alter it, nor change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good: and if he shall at all change beast for beast, then it and the exchange thereof shall be holy.
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Open the full verse study29¶ Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
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Open the full verse study12And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.
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Open the full verse study20And the priest shall wave them with the bread of the firstfruits for a wave offering before the Lord, with the two lambs: they shall be holy to the Lord for the priest.
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Open the full verse study34But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.
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Open the full verse study32And concerning the tithe of the herd, or of the flock, even of whatsoever passeth under the rod, the tenth shall be holy unto the Lord.
33He shall not search whether it be good or bad, neither shall he change it: and if he change it at all, then both it and the change thereof shall be holy; it shall not be redeemed.
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Open the full verse study8¶ Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
9Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
10Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
From verse 15
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Open the full verse study20He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between the sanctuary and the profane place.
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Open the full verse study6¶ And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the oblation of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.
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Open the full verse study15But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.
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Open the full verse study26Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
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Open the full verse study23And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
From verse 16
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Open the full verse study16And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.
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