What Does Ezekiel 48:10 Mean in the King James?

And for them, even for the priests, shall be this holy oblation; toward the north five and twenty thousand in length, and toward the west ten thousand in breadth, and toward the east ten thousand in breadth, and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length: and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst thereof.

Ezekiel 48:10 · KJV

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THE KEY

The sanctuary stands at the center of a measured inheritance, making the holy the organizing center of shared life.

THE MEANING

The priestly portion is measured from every side, with the LORD’s sanctuary in its midst. Sacred presence is placed inside an ordered human landscape, where the center gives the surrounding space its orientation.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

This undoes the belief that what is holy must be distant from shared life: here, the sanctuary stands within a measured portion.

THE ROOT

מִקְדָּשׁ

miqdash

GROWS FROM

קדשׁ

q-d-sh

Set apart; consecrate.

⁨מִקְדָּשׁ⁩ (miqdash, set-apart place) grows from the same root as ⁨קָדוֹשׁ⁩ (qadosh, set apart). The sanctuary is not merely a building at the center: its very name makes that center a place marked as set apart.

ALSO GROWS

qadosh: Set apart; sacred.

קָדוֹשׁ

The same root names the quality embodied by the sanctuary at the center.

qiddesh: Set apart; consecrated.

קִדֵּשׁ

This verb shows the root as an act of marking something for a distinct purpose.

תְּרוּמָה

terumah

GROWS FROM

רום

rum

Rise; be high; lift up.

“oblation” in this verse is terumah. ⁨תְּרוּמָה⁩ (terumah, a lifted or set-apart contribution) carries the sense of something raised from the common share. Here that portion is carefully measured, and the sanctuary is placed within it.

ALSO GROWS

ram: High; exalted.

רָם

This form preserves the root’s sense of height in the language of the lifted portion.

herim: Lifted; raised.

הֵרִים

This verbal form makes explicit the movement contained in the name of the oblation.

THE PATTERN

A set-apart dwelling is given a defined place among the people.

And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

Exodus 25:8 · KJVThe sanctuary is a prepared place for presence among the people.

And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place.

Ezekiel 45:3 · KJVThe measured portion holds the sanctuary and the most holy place within it.

And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

Revelation 21:3 · KJVThe divine dwelling is described as present with humanity.

THE THREAD

And of this measure shalt thou measure the length of five and twenty thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place.

Ezekiel 45:3 · KJV

⁨מִקְדָּשׁ⁩ (miqdash, set-apart place) comes from ⁨קדשׁ⁩ (q-d-sh, set apart), the root behind the sanctuary named in both verses. Ezekiel 45:3 makes the same connection inside a measured portion: the center is a place set apart within the land.

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