Ezekiel 44:1

Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary which looketh toward the east; and it was shut.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
back	וַיָּ֣שֶׁב vai.Ya.shev	H7725	to turn back (hence · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
way	דֶּ֣רֶךְ De.rekh	H1870	a road (as trodden) · noun, common both genders singular construct
gate	שַׁ֤עַר Sha.'ar	H8179	an opening · noun, common masculine singular construct
outward	הַֽחִיצ֔וֹן ha.chi.Tzon	H2435	properly · definite article + adjective, masculine singular absolute
sanctuary	הַמִּקְדָּשׁ֙ ha.mik.Dash	H4720	a consecrated thing or place · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
looketh	הַפֹּנֶ֖ה ha.po.Neh	H6437	to turn · definite article + verb, qal active participle, masculine singular absolute
east	קָדִ֑ים ka.Dim	H6921	the fore or front part · noun, common masculine singular absolute
shut	סָגֽוּר sa.Gur	H5462	to shut up · verb, qal passive participle, masculine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Ezekiel 43:1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:
Ezekiel 40:6 Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was…
Ezekiel 40:17 Then brought he me into the outward court, and, lo, there were chambers, and a pavement made for the court round about: thirty chambers were…
Ezekiel 42:14 When the priests enter therein, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the utter court, but there they shall lay their garments w…
2 Chronicles 4:9 Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
2 Chronicles 20:5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the LORD, before the new court,
2 Chronicles 33:5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.
Ezekiel 43:4 And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 44:1-3

The prophet is here brought to review what he had before once surveyed; for, though we have often looked into the things of God, they will yet bear to be looked over again, such a copiousness there is in them. The lessons we have learned we should still repeat to ourselves. Every time we review the sacred fabric of holy things, which we have in the scriptures, we shall still find something new which we did not before take notice of. The prophet is brought a third time to the east gate, and finds it shut, which intimates that the rest of the gates were open at all times to the worshippers. But such an account is given of this gate's being shut as puts honour, 1. Upon the God of Israel. It is…

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Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 44:1

The outward sanctuary - In opposition to the temple itself, which was the inner sanctuary.

John Gill on Ezekiel 44:1

Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary,.... The prophet was brought by his divine guide, from the altar of burnt offerings, which stood before the house, where he had given him the dimensions of it, and the ordinances concerning it, to the temple or holy place, called the outward sanctuary, in distinction from the inward sanctuary, or holy of holies; and to one of the gates of it, which was a gate of the inner court: and which looketh toward the east: the eastern gate, and was the same he had been at before, and therefore is said to be brought back the way of it; see Ezekiel 43:1, and it was shut; when he was there before, it was open; for he saw the glory of…

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Keil & Delitzsch on Ezekiel 44:1-3

The Place of the Prince in the Sanctuary. - Eze 44:1. And he brought me back by the way to the outer gate of the sanctuary, which looked toward the east; and it was shut. Eze 44:2. And Jehovah said to me, This gate shall be shut, shall not be opened, and no one shall enter thereby; because Jehovah, the God of Israel, has entered by it, it shall be shut. Eze 44:3. As for the prince, as prince he shall sit therein, to eat bread before Jehovah; from the way to the porch of the gate shall he go in, and from its way shall he go out. - From the inner court where Ezekiel had received the measurements of the altar of burnt-offering and the instructions concerning its consecration (Eze 43:5.), he is…

The Church Fathers

Who is this gate, if not Mary? Is it not closed because she is a virgin? Mary is the gate through which Christ entered this world, when He was brought forth in the virginal birth and the manner of His birth did not break the seals of virginity.
— Ambrose of Milan, De institutione virginum 8.52

Some quite emphatically understand this closed gate through which only the Lord God of Israel passes... as the Virgin Mary, who remains a Virgin before and after childbirth. In fact, she remains always a Virgin, in the moment in which the Angel speaks with her and when the Son of God is born.
— Jerome, Commentarium in Evangelium Lucae, PL 25, 430.

But just as He who was conceived kept her who conceived still virgin, in like manner also He who was born preserved her virginity intact, only passing through her and keeping her closed. [Ezekiel 44:2] The conception, indeed, was through the sense of hearing, but the birth through the usual path by which children come, although some tell tales of His birth through the side of the Mother of God. For it was not impossible for Him to have come by this gate, without injuring her seal in anyway. The ever-virgin One thus remains even after the birth still virgin, having never at any time up till death consorted with a man.
— John Damascene, An Exposition of the Orthodox Faith (Book IV), Chapter 14

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 44:1-3

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 44:1

John Gill on Ezekiel 44:1

Keil & Delitzsch on Ezekiel 44:1-3

The Church Fathers

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 44:1-3

Adam Clarke on Ezekiel 44:1

John Gill on Ezekiel 44:1

Keil & Delitzsch on Ezekiel 44:1-3

The Church Fathers

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Ezekiel 44:1-31