EZEKIEL CHAPTER 48 The portions of the twelve tribes, EZEKIEL 48:1-29, of the sanctuary, EZEKIEL 48:8, of the city and suburbs, EZEKIEL 48:15, and of the prince, EZEKIEL 48:21,22. The dimensions and gates of the city, EZEKIEL 48:30. FROM THE NORTH END; as the measurer began to bound the land first o... [ Continue Reading ]
That is, all along on the south side of Dan, from east to west in length, shall the share of the tribe of Asher lie.... [ Continue Reading ]
To the north-west point, where the dividing line ends, being drawn from the north-east point to the north-west in the midland sea.... [ Continue Reading ]
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Hitherto you have seven of the twelve tribes placed in the northern part of Canaan, and reckoned as they lay in order, where nothing occurs new from the 2nd verse to the 8th.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE OFFERING; the holy portion, of which EZEKIEL 45:1, set out for priests, Levites, and city, EZEKIEL 45:4. REEDS is here supplied by the translators, but I rather think _cubits_; for the greatness of the portion measured by reeds will eat out the tribes, or leave very little for them, as appears t... [ Continue Reading ]
This verse is the same with EZEKIEL 45:3, which see.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THE PRIESTS; who are more particularly described EZEKIEL 48:11, which see. TOWARD THE NORTH; the north side, in length from north-east to north-west. TOWARD THE WEST; from south-west to north-west point, between which points lay the west side. TOWARD THE EAST; between north-east and south-east p... [ Continue Reading ]
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THIS OBLATION; which, as it were the _primitiae_ of the land, was ordered to be first set out for God. OFFERED; set apart, and dedicated to God. Shall be unto them a thing most holy; in the account both of the priests and the whole people it shall be most holy, on no occasion to be servant unto any... [ Continue Reading ]
See this verse explained EZEKIEL 45:5. The Levites portion ran parallel with the priest s, whose northern limits were next to the southern limits of the Levites.... [ Continue Reading ]
It is most holy, and therefore no price should be offered for it, nor any price set upon it, nor may they pass away any on pretence of getting greater and more particularly serviceable to them and their employment, and so for convenience part with God's inheritance; this is forbidden: this is holy,... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE BREADTH OVER AGAINST; or running along by the side. THE FIVE AND TWENTY THOUSAND; assigned to the Levites. A PROFANE PLACE; a common, not consecrated place, in which the city should be built, a place for all services, as men shall need. Now as that is counted holy which is set apart only for... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MEASURES; the extent and proportions of the ground for the city; a square of four thousand five hundred shall be taken out of the middle of the twenty-five thousand for the area or ground-plot of the city. So it shall be an equilateral square, every side exactly the same, north, south, east, and... [ Continue Reading ]
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 four thousand five hundred on the south side, make five thousand; so on the east add two hundred and... [ Continue Reading ]
THE RESIDUE IN LENGTH, which remains on each side of the five thousand cubits square area, will be ten thousand on the east, and ten thousand on the west. SHALL BE OVER AGAINST THE OBLATION; lie parallel and even with the south side of the Levites portion both on east and west. THE INCREASE THEREOF;... [ Continue Reading ]
Either this service is a burden, and if so, it is fit all should bear their part in it; or it is a privilege and advantage, and then it is as fit the advantage should be equally given to all the tribes; all tribes shall be capable of the advantage, and liable to the burden.... [ Continue Reading ]
Having particularly measured out ten thousand for the priests, and ten thousand for the Levites, and five thousand for the city broadways, these make in all twenty-five thousand; and the length of each the same, twenty-five thousand; here is evidently a perfect equilateral square, whose sides are tw... [ Continue Reading ]
THE RESIDUE of the land, which is a great portion, for it is the remainder of twelve and a half taken out of sixty; so that the remainder will be forty-seven and a half. ON THE ONE SIDE; suppose it be the cast side, there will be twenty-three and three quarters. ON THE OTHER SIDE; on the west just a... [ Continue Reading ]
That we may clearly understand this, we must remember that the portion of Judah was laid from west to east next to the holy portion, and the portion of Benjamin is in EZEKIEL 48:23 laid likewise from west to east next to the possession of the city. So that on each side the extent of Judah and Benjam... [ Continue Reading ]
In EZEKIEL 48:7 we left with the prophet the last assigned portion to Judah, on the north side of the holy portions; now the first on the south side of the possession of the city is Benjamin, whose portion, as all the rest, runs in length from east to west, and its breadth from north to south.... [ Continue Reading ]
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Thus all the tribes have their inheritances assigned them, but their lot is not here as in Joshua's division. It was a new church and state that was here intended, and accordingly many changes are made in it, which differenced it from the old; which changes no doubt are instructive, but the particul... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BORDER OF GAD; the south border of Gad. _The border_ of the whole land southward. FROM TAMAR: see EZEKIEL 47:19. TO THE RIVER; Sihor, say some; but if Sihor be the Nile, as Ortelius makes it, it cannot be the boundary: it is indeed a river that ariseth, as some place it, out of the north part of... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS IS THE LAND, whose south bounds are here repeated, the north bounds EZEKIEL 48:1. YE SHALL DIVIDE BY LOT; not casting lots, but assigning the shares. THESE ARE THEIR PORTIONS; these above described are the particular shares of each tribe.... [ Continue Reading ]
Now the prophet hath a general topography of the city, which lay four-square. The first side mentioned is the north, for there he began to describe the land, or because it was nearest the temple. It was, as EZEKIEL 48:16, which see, four thousand five hundred cubits, i.e. about a mile and one third... [ Continue Reading ]
So then it is probable these gates were built at equal distance from the corners and from each other.... [ Continue Reading ]
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OLBHeb; ROUND measuring all four squares. EIGHTEEN THOUSAND MEASURES, or cubits, at which proportioned measures it was about five miles in compass; if the measures were reeds, it would be thirty miles and three hundred and twenty-five yards in compass of the walls, which cannot be conceived credible... [ Continue Reading ]