The Pulpit Commentary on Ezekiel 45:9

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

In continuation of the foregoing thought, the princes of Israel first are reminded that whatever they should obtain from the people for the sanctuary was not to be extorted from them by violence and spoil (comp.

Ezekiel 7:11, Ezekiel 7:23; Ezekiel 8:17 : Jeremiah 6:7; Jeremiah 20:8; Habakkuk 1:3) or by exactions—literally, expulsions, or drivings of persons out of their possessions, such as had been practiced on Naboth by Ahab (1 Kings 21:1-29.

)—but levied with judgment and justice, which, besides, should regulate their whole behavior towards their subjects.

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