Ezekiel 45 (JND) - Bible Truth Library

and my princes.In the predicted period, not only shall the ministers and worshippers of God be liberally provided for, but the princes will be both able and willing to defray the expenses of government, without oppressing their subjects, and will rule over them with equity and clemency, as the vicegerents of God; while the people will submit to them conscientiously, and live in peace, prosperity, and holiness.

These things seem to be represented in language taken from the customs of the times in which the prophet wrote.

Tithes are not mentioned in part of the vision, which shows that the ritual Mosaic law will not be in force.

Ezek. 19:3,7• ³And she brought up one of her whelps; it became a young lion, and he learned to catch the prey; he devoured men.
⁷And he knew their desolate palaces, and he laid waste their cities, so that the land was desolate, and all it contained, by the noise of his roaring. (Ezek. 19:3,7)

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Ezek. 22:27• ²⁷Her princes in the midst of her are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, to get dishonest gain. (Ezek. 22:27)

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Prov. 28:16• ¹⁶The prince void of intelligence is also a great oppressor: he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days. (Prov. 28:16)

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Isa. 11:3‑5• ³And his delight will be in the fear of Jehovah; and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears;
⁴but with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
⁵And righteousness shall be the girdle of his reins, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins. (Isa. 11:3‑5)

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Isa. 32:1‑2• ¹Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
²And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the storm; as brooks of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a thirsty land. (Isa. 32:1‑2)

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Isa. 60:17‑18• ¹⁷For bronze I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood bronze, and for stones iron; and I will make thine officers peace, and thy rulers righteousness.
¹⁸Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. (Isa. 60:17‑18)

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Jer. 22:17• ¹⁷But thine eyes and thy heart are only on thine extortion, and on the blood of the innocent, to shed it, and on oppression and on violence, to do it. (Jer. 22:17)

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Jer. 23:5• ⁵Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, when I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, who shall reign as king, and act wisely, and shall execute judgment and righteousness in the land. (Jer. 23:5)

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Mic. 3:1‑4• ¹And I said, Hear, I pray you, ye heads of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel: Is it not for you to know judgment?
²Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;
³and who eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron.
⁴Then shall they cry unto Jehovah, but he will not answer them; and he will hide his face from them at that time, according as they have wrought evil in their doings. (Mic. 3:1‑4)

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Zeph. 3:13• ¹³The remnant of Israel shall not work unrighteousness, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: but *they* shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid. (Zeph. 3:13)

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James 2:6• ⁶But *ye* have despised the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and do not *they* drag you before the tribunals? (James 2:6)

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James 5:1‑6• ¹Go to now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you.
²Your wealth is become rotten, and your garments moth-eaten.
³Your gold and silver is eaten away, and their canker shall be for a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have heaped up treasure in the last days.
⁴Behold, the wages of your labourers, who have harvested your fields, wrongfully kept back by you, cry, and the cries of those that have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
⁵Ye have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves; ye have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter;
⁶ye have condemned, ye have killed the just; he does not resist you. (James 5:1‑6)

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Rev. 19:11‑16• ¹¹And I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and one sitting on it, called Faithful and True, and he judges and makes war in righteousness.
¹²And his eyes are a flame of fire, and upon his head many diadems, having a name written which no one knows but himself;
¹³and he is clothed with a garment dipped in blood; and his name is called The Word of God.
¹⁴And the armies which are in the heaven followed him upon white horses, clad in white, pure, fine linen.
¹⁵And out of his mouth goes a sharp two-edged sword, that with it he might smite the nations; and he shall shepherd them with an iron rod; and he treads the wine-press of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
¹⁶And he has upon his garment, and upon his thigh, a name written, King of kings, and Lord of lords. (Rev. 19:11‑16)

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• Jehovah binds up the entire system of His people, civil and religious, with His own name. Thenceforward selfish oppression will be as unknown as corruption in worship. (“Notes on Ezekiel 45” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

As landf shall it be his for a possession in Israel; and my princes shall no more oppress my people; but they shall give the land to the house of Israel according to their tribes.

JND Translation Notes

i.e. domain.