Ezekiel 48:11,12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

It shall be for the priests of the sons of Zadok See note on Ezekiel 44:10; Ezekiel 44:15. Which went not astray as the Levites Or, as the other Levites went astray. “The word Levites is here used in its greatest latitude, and comprehends the priests, as well as those who were properly called Levites. Many of these had defiled themselves with idolatry, for which crime they were to be degraded from the honours due to those priests who had continued faithful in their office.” Lowth. This oblation shall be unto them a thing most holy As all things dedicated to God were. By the border of the Levites It shall lie next to the portion of the Levites which lay southward between the priests' and the city's portion.

Ezekiel 48:11-12

11 It 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.

12 And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites.