Ezekiel 45 (WK) - 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 it learned to catch the prey; it devoured men.
⁷And he knew their desolate places, and he laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fullness thereof, by the noise of his roaring. (Ezek. 19:3,7)

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Ezek. 22:27• ²⁷Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and 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:{HR}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 will not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
⁴but with righteousness will he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he will smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips will he slay the wicked [one].
⁵And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins. (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 tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary 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; I will also make thine officers peace, and thine exactors 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 thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it. (Jer. 22:17)

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Jer. 23:5• ⁵Behold the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth. (Jer. 23:5)

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Mic. 3:1‑4• ¹And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye 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 do iniquity, nor speak lies; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid. (Zeph. 3:13)

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James 2:6• ⁶But ye dishonoured the poor [man]. Do not the rich oppress you, and they drag you before tribunals? (James 2:6)

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James 5:1‑6• ¹Come then, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming on.
²Your wealth is corrupted, and your garments are become moth-eaten.
³Your gold and [your] silver are rusted through, and their rust shall be for a witness to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye laid up treasure in [the] last days.
⁴Behold, the hire of the labourers who reaped your fields, that is kept back of you crieth out, and the cries of those that reaped entered into the ears of Jehovah of hosts.
⁵Ye lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves; ye nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.
⁶Ye condemned, ye slew the just one; he doth 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 he that sat upon him was called faithful and true, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.
¹²His eyes were [as] a flame of fire, and upon his head were many diadems; he had [names written and] a name written which no one knoweth but he himself;
¹³and he was clothed with a garment dyed with blood: and his name is called THE WORD OF GOD.
¹⁴And the armies that are in the heaven followed him upon white horses, clad in white pure fine linen.
¹⁵And out of his mouth proceeded a [two-edged] sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with an iron rod: and he treadeth the winepress of the wine of the indignation of the wrath of God the Almighty.
¹⁶And he hath upon the 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.

W. Kelly Translation

In the land shall be his possession in Israel: and my princes shall no more oppress my people; and the rest of the land shall they give to the house of Israel according to their tribes.