Teks -- Ezekiel 44:11 (NET)

44:11 Yet they will be ministers in my sanctuary, having oversight at the gates of the temple, and serving the temple. They will slaughter the burnt offerings and the sacrifices for the people, and they will stand before them to minister to them.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Eze 44:11 - Ministers

Servants employed in the lowest work.

Wesley: Eze 44:11 - Sanctuary

Not the temple itself, but about the courts of it.

Wesley: Eze 44:11 - Having charge

They shall be porters to open and shut, and sweep, and go on errands.

Wesley: Eze 44:11 - To minister

To wait on the priests.

JFB: Eze 44:10-11 - Levites . . . shall . . . bear

Namely, the punishment of

JFB: Eze 44:10-11 - their iniquity . . . Yet they shall be ministers

So Mark, a Levite, nephew of Barnabas (Act 4:36), was punished by Paul for losing an opportunity of bearing the cross of Christ, and yet was afterwards admitted into his friendship again, and showed his zeal (Act 13:13; Act 15:37; Col 4:10; 2Ti 4:11). One may be a believer, and that too in a distinguished place, and yet lose some special honor--be acknowledged as pious, yet be excluded from some dignity [BENGEL].

JFB: Eze 44:10-11 - charge at the gates

Better to be "a doorkeeper in the house of God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness" (Psa 84:10). Though standing as a mere doorkeeper, it is in the house of God, which hath foundations: whereas he who dwells with the wicked, dwells in but shifting tents.

TSK: Eze 44:11 - they shall be // having charge // shall slay // and they

they shall be : As few, if any, of those who, before the captivity, had been guilty in these respects, lived to witness the restoration of the temple service; and as it does not appear that their descendants were thus degraded for the idolatry of their ancestors; it is probable that a thorough reformation of the whole church, or the prevalence of pure religion among the converted Jews, is here predicted.

having charge : Eze 44:14, Eze 40:45; 1Chr. 26:1-19

shall slay : 2Ch 29:34, 2Ch 30:17, 2Ch 35:10,2Ch 35:11

and they : Num 16:9, Num 18:6

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Eze 44:11 - Ministers // In my sanctuary // Having charge at the gates // Ministering // They shall slay // The sacrifice for the people // Stand before // To minister unto them

Ministers servants, employed in the lowest and least honourable work.

In my sanctuary not the temple itself, but about the courts of it.

Having charge at the gates shall be porters to open and shut and sweep, and ready to go on errands.

Ministering probably made to learn the arts of mason or smith, to mend and repair, to fetch wood and water with Jebusites.

They shall slay do that servile work for the sacrificing priest.

The sacrifice for the people all the sacrifices the people bring.

Stand before Hebrew expression of servants’ attendance.

To minister unto them to wait on and obey the priests.

Haydock: Eze 44:11 - Slay

Slay. Levites might do this, but the priests poured the blood round the altar, ver. 15. They could not well slay all the victims.

Gill: Eze 44:11 - Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary // having charge at the gates of the house // and ministering to the house // they shall slay the burnt offering, and the sacrifice for the people // and they shall stand before them to minister unto them

Yet they shall be ministers in my sanctuary,.... Though degraded from their office as priests and ministers of the word, yet being restored from their sins and errors, shall have a place in the house of God, and do their work there in a less honourable and a more servile way; as in former times, when ministers had sinned foully, and were degraded from their office, upon repentance they were not restored to that, but only admitted to lay communion; see 2Ki 23:9,

having charge at the gates of the house; like those sort of Levites who were porters and doorkeepers in the temple, or like our sextons or pew openers now:

and ministering to the house; employed as the Gibeonites were in hewing wood and bringing water for the use of the sanctuary, or in repairing of it; learning and exercising the business of smiths, masons, and carpenters:

they shall slay the burnt offering, and the sacrifice for the people; not bring it to the altar, and offer it there; only slay it, and skin it for the priests; which is not to be understood literally, there being no such sacrifice in Gospel times; but to denote the menial service and inferior post that such shall be employed in; if they have no trade, they shall learn one, in order to get a livelihood for themselves, and be serviceable to the interest of religion in a lower way; but ministers of the word they shall not be:

and they shall stand before them to minister unto them; either before the priests, whose servants they shall be, or before the people; signifying that those that sin publicly shall be rebuked before all.