Ezekiel 44:16

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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שֻׁלְחָנִ֖י

shulchân

H7979

“table · my”

Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular

Appears 71× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 25:23

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H7971

TWOT: 2395a

table - table - of king's table, private use, sacred uses

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

12: words
10: distinct lemmas
Prophets: section

Grammatical profile

4 verbs
3 nouns
2 pronouns
2 prepositions
1 particle

Verb forms

יָבֹ֣אוּ Qal · Imperfect
יִקְרְב֥וּ Qal · Imperfect
לְשָׁרְתֵ֑נִי Piel · Infinitive Construct
וְשָׁמְר֖וּ Qal · Sequential Perfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

הֵ֜מָּה they H1992 ×2
אֶל to H413 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 24 words from the Hebrew and 22 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 12 Hebrew tokens and 21 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Ezekiel 44:16 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Ezekiel 41:22 The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and the length of it two cubits; and the corners of it, and the length of it, and the walls of it, were of wood: and he said to me, This is the table that is before Yahweh.
Numbers 18:7–8 You and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood for everything of the altar, and for that within the veil; and you shall serve: I give you the priesthood as a service of gift: and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.
Malachi 1:7 You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, 'How have we polluted you?' In that you say, 'Yahweh's table contemptible.'
Malachi 1:12 "But you profane it, in that you say, 'Yahweh's table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.'
Numbers 18:5 You shall keep the charge of the sanctuary, and the charge of the altar; that there be wrath no more on the children of Israel.
Deuteronomy 33:8–10 Of Levi he said, Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, Whom you did prove at Massah, With whom you did strive at the waters of Meribah;
Revelation 1:6 and he made us to be a Kingdom, priests to his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Ezekiel 44:16 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

הֵ֜מָּה יָבֹ֣אוּ אֶל מִקְדָּשִׁ֗י וְהֵ֛מָּה יִקְרְב֥וּ אֶל שֻׁלְחָנִ֖י לְשָׁרְתֵ֑נִי וְשָׁמְר֖וּ אֶת מִשְׁמַרְתִּֽי

they shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charge.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Ezekiel 44:16 Septuagint · lemma form

οὗτος εἰςἔρχομαι εἰς ὁ ἅγιος ἐγώ καί οὗτος προςἔρχομαι πρός ὁ τράπεζα ἐγώ ὁ λειτουργέω ἐγώ καί φυλάσσω ὁ φυλακή ἐγώ

These shall enter into my sanctuary, and these shall approach my table, to minister to me, and they shall keep my charges.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

אִינוּן יַעֲלוּן לְמִקְדָשִׁי וְאִינוּן יִתְקָרְבוּן לְפָתוֹרִי לְחַם אַפַּיָא לְשִׁמְשָׁא קֳדָמַי וְיִטְרוּן יַת מַטְרַת מֵימְרִי:

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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Ezekiel 44:16 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Eze 44:16 They shall enter into my sanctuary, and they shall come near to my table, to minister unto me, and they shall keep my charge.

Ver. 16. To my table,] i.e., To mine altar, {Eze 41:22 Mal 1:7; Mal 1:12} which as often as they do, they receive a double pledge of the pardon of their own sins. {Joh 20:23}

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 16. Come near to my table] To place the shew-bread there, and to burn incense on the golden altar in the holy of holies.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

16. near to my table] The altar of burnt-offering is no doubt meant, cf. on Eze_41:22.

Eze_44:17-19. The garments of the priests.—In the service of the sanctuary they shall wear only linen clothing, drawers and head-dresses. In Exo_28:39; Exo_28:42; Exo_39:27; Lev_16:4, the coats and bonnets of the priests are byssus (possibly cotton).

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

They shall enter into my sanctuary,.... Both to officiate, and to participate, which strangers and uncircumcised persons might not do, Eze 44:9,

and they shall come near to my table to minister unto me; which some understand of the altar of burnt offering, which was as a table, and the sacrifice on it was the food of the Lord, Lev 3:11, others, the altar of incense; see Eze 41:22. Kimchi interprets it of the table of shewbread; but, whatever is meant in the letter, the mystical sense is, the ordinance of the Lord's supper, called the Lord's table, Co1 10:21, a table richly spread, and well furnished with spiritual provision: here Christ himself sits, bids his people welcome, eats with them, and they with him; and here all the saints are guests, and ministers in particular officiate:

and they shall keep my charge; continue to do so; for this they did before, Eze 44:15, but now should be confirmed in their office, and never be displaced, as others; they that honour God he will honour, Sa1 2:30.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

They shall enter, the high priest and the other priests shall have right and liberty of entering, into my sanctuary; both to the altar, to the temple, and the high priest into the holy of holies.

To my table; to set the shew-bread on, and to take it off.

To minister unto me; to offer sacrifice at the altar, and incense in the house; this the priests did in their course; and of this line the high priest alone, once a year, in the day of expiation, went in to minister to the Lord in the holy of holies.

They shall keep my charge: see Eze 44:8.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Into my sanctuary - Both to the altar, to the temple, and the high-priest into the holy of holies. Come near - To set the shew- bread on, and to take it off. To minister - To offer sacrifice at the altar, and incense in the house. God will put marks of honour upon those who are faithful to him in trying times, and will, employ those in his service, who have kept close to it, when others drew back.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Lesson kit

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Ezekiel, in the Prophets, opens this verse with 12 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shulchân (“table”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

How does “table” (shulchân) shape what this verse is saying?
Ezekiel 41:22 shares this passage’s theme. How do the two illuminate each other?
“they” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
The verb «יָבֹ֣אוּ» is Qal Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 12 Hebrew ↔ 21 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 12 words in this verse.
“they” occurs 2× in this single verse.
10 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 12 words in this verse.