Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Ezekiel 48:15
The five thousand ... - The remainder of the square of 25,000 reeds from north to south.
Profane - For common use, as distinguished from that which is holy unto the Lord.
The five thousand ... - The remainder of the square of 25,000 reeds from north to south.
Profane - For common use, as distinguished from that which is holy unto the Lord.
Verse Ezekiel 48:15. _AND THE FIVE THOUSAND THAT ARE LEFT_] The territory of the Levites was _twenty-five thousand_ square cubits, Ezekiel 48:20, But their city was only _four thousand five hundred_...
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...
SHALL BE. it [shall be]. PROFANE. common....
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...
OVER AGAINST, &C.— _Beside the five-and-twenty thousand shall be common_ [_ground_] _for the city._...
_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...
A PROFANE _PLACE_] RV 'for common use.'...
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...
This is the same city as in 45:6, but we have many more details here. It was the new capital city, and *Israelites from all the *tribes could live there. Verses 30-35, which continue to describe the c...
THE FIVE THOUSAND THAT ARE LEFT. — The two strips of territory for the Levites and the priests, each 10,000 reeds wide, being deducted from the whole width of the oblation, leaves a strip of 5,000 wid...
וַ חֲמֵ֨שֶׁת אֲלָפִ֜ים הַ נֹּותָ֣ר בָּ †...
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...
_Profane, where servants of the priests may reside. (Calmet) --- On the north and south, (Haydock) 1000 cubits broad and 25,000 long were left for fields, gardens, &c. (Calmet)_...
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 FIVE THOUSAND THAT ARE LEFT IN THE BREADTH OVER AGAINST THE FIVE AND TWENTY THOUSAND,.... Which belonged to the Levites, which was a square of twenty five thousand reeds by twenty five thousan...
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...
_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 five thousand that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, after deducting the breadth of the priests' and of the Levites' portions, SHALL BE A PROFANE PLACE FOR THE...
THE DIVISION OF THE NEW CANAAN...
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...
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“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 Lord is there._ EZEKIEL’S LAST VISION The following are some of the principal heads of prophetic instruction intended by the vision. 1. That there was to be an entire new state of things in the...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 48:8 Much of this material has already been seen in Ezekiel 45:1 (see note there). The important addition is the location of the CITY and its
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...
1 Timothy 3:15; Ezekiel 22:26; Ezekiel 42:20; Ezekiel 44:23; Ez
A profane place — A common, not consecrated place....