George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Ezekiel 48:17
Suburbs, separating the Levites from laics, different from what is mentioned [in] ver. 15.
Suburbs, separating the Levites from laics, different from what is mentioned [in] ver. 15.
The city being 4500 reeds square, 250 reeds are marked off north, south, east, west from the city land....
CHAPTER 48 _ 1. The portion of the seven tribes (Ezekiel 48:1) _ 2. The oblation for the sanctuary, for the city, and for the prince (Ezekiel 48:8) 3. The gates of the city and its new name (Ezekie...
EZEKIEL 48. THE TRIBAL ALLOTMENTS. The holy city, Jerusalem, with its environments is significantly regarded as the true centre, geographical no less than religious, of the country; but, as in point o...
The "suburbs" or free space round the city shall be 250 cubits on all the four sides. Adding the 250 on the N. and on the S. of the city to the 4500 it appears that the whole _breadth_of the 5000 assi...
The portion of the oblation assignable to the city. The remaining 5000 in breadth (N. to S.) shall belong to the city, with the same length as the portions of the priests and Levites, viz. 25,000, as...
_2. The sanctified portion (48:8-22_) TRANSLATION (8) And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the oblation which you shall offer, twenty-five thousand reeds in bre...
_ And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the mids...
THE NEW ISRAEL (EZEKIEL 33-48) So long as the Jewish kingdom remained in existence Ezekiel's prophecies (those in Ezekiel 1-24) dealt almost exclusively with the nation's sin, and with the certainty o...
EZEKIEL’S LAST *VISION EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _COMMENTARY: KEITH SIMONS; TRANSLATION: IAN MACKERVOY._ CHAPTER 48 THE SHARE OF THE COUNTRY FOR 7 *TRIBES TO THE NORTH – EZEKIEL 48:1-7 V1 ‘Her...
The people who lived in the city would own animals. Those animals could feed (find their food) on this land. And because this land was near the city, the people could look after the animals well. That...
וְ הָיָ֣ה מִגְרָשׁ֮ לָ † עִיר֒ צָפֹ֨ונָה֙...
RENEWAL AND ALLOTMENT OF THE LAND Ezekiel 47:1; Ezekiel 48:1 IN the first part of the forty-seventh chapter the visionary form of the revelation, which had been interrupted by the important series of...
The disposition of the tribes in relation to the sanctuary was then given. On the north of the sacred land Dan, Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephraim, Reuben, and Judah were to find their possessions, an...
Here are directions, very largely given, for the different services of the several tribes, and their importance; of which we cannot now speak particularly. It is on these points, this striking prophec...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 47 AND 48. The last two Chapter s do not require any lengthened remarks. The waters that issue from the sanctuary represent the life-giving power that proceed...
AND THE SUBURBS OF THE CITY SHALL BE TOWARD THE NORTH TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY,.... That is, so many reeds: and TOWARD THE SOUTH TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY; which make five hundred; and these being added to...
And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty, and toward the south two hundred and fifty, and toward the east two hundred and fifty, and toward the west two hundred and...
_And the five thousand that are left in the breadth over against_ [or _beside_, see Eze 48:13] _the five and twenty thousand_ This five thousand, added to the twenty-five thousand in length, and two t...
And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty and toward the south two hundred and fifty and toward the east two hundred and fifty and toward the west two hundred and fif...
THE DIVISION OF THE NEW CANAAN...
Here are the dimensions of the suburbs, which added to those of the city thus, two hundred and fifty added to the four thousand five hundred on the north side, and two hundred and fifty added to the f...
Ezekiel 48:17 common-land H4054 city H5892 north H6828 hundred H3967 fifty H2572 south H5045 hundred H3967 fifty H257
“And the five thousand that are left in the breadth, in front of the twenty five thousand, shall be for common use, for the city, for dwelling and for suburbs. And the city shall be in its midst. And...
CONTENTS: Division of the land. The city and its gates. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, prince. CONCLUSION: The tribes of Israel will in the kingdom age be distributed according to the divine counsels by...
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THE IDEAL ALLOTMENT OF THE HOLY LAND. (Chap. 48) EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The order of the original occupation of the Holy Land by the tribes under Joshua is partly, but only partly, followed. It is a new or...
EXPOSITION The closing chapter of the prophet's temple-vision treats more particularly of the distribution of the land among the several tribes (Ezekiel 48:1), and concludes with a statement concerni...
CHAPTER 47:13-48:35 THE BOUNDARIES AND RE-DISTRIBUTION OF THE LAND. As the whole of the representations contained in the preceding parts of the vision proceed on the basis of the old covenant, the se...