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Verse Ezekiel 40:2. _SET ME UPON A VERY HIGH MOUNTAIN_] Mount
_Moriah_, the mount on which Solomon's temple was built, 2 Chronicles
3:1....
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BY WHICH - Better as in the margin. (compare Ezekiel 43:12).
AS THE FRAME OF A CITY - It is not “a city” which is seen, but a
building (the temple and its courts) like a city in its construction,
sur...
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Chapter s 40-48. The final nine Chapter s of this book form the climax
of the great prophecies of Ezekiel; they belong to the most difficult
in the entire prophetic Word. Once more the hand of the Lor...
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EZEKIEL 40-48. THE TEMPLE.
Ezekiel 40:1. It is worthy of note that the sketch starts with the
old familiar phrases the hand of Yahweh was upon me and in the visions
of God (_cf._ Ezekiel 1:1). These...
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VISIONS OF GOD. Compare Ezekiel 1:1; Ezekiel 8:3; Ezekiel 43:3.
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4.
THE LAND OF ISRAEL. One of the three occurrences in Ezekiel with
_'erete_ instead of _'admath_. See notes
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_visions of God_ ch. Ezekiel 1:1; Ezekiel 8:3; Ezekiel 11:24.
_a very high mountain_ The site is the ancient hill of Zion, but it is
now exalted above the hills,...
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Ezekiel 40:1-27. The outer gateway and court
In the 25th year of Jehoiachin's captivity, which was the 14th year
after the fall of the city (b.c. 572), the prophet fell into a
prophetic trance (Ezeki...
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SET ME UPON A VERY HIGH MOUNTAIN— The expression points out mount
Moriah, whereon the temple was built. It is here called _a very high
mountain,_ because it represents the seat of the Christian church...
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
GOD'S FUTURE TEMPLE
40:1-43:12
The Book of Ezekiel ends as it began, with a vision. In Chapter s 1-3
Ezekiel sees a vision illustrating how God had visited His people in
Exile; these...
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In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set
me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on
the south.
IN THE VISIONS OF GOD - divinely-sent visions....
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40:2 upon (b-23) Or 'by.'...
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THE NEW TEMPLE
Ezekiel, transported in vision to Palestine, is set down on the N.
side of the Temple mountain, and sees the Temple buildings extending
to the S. like a city. A supernatural figure, li...
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EZEKIEL’S LAST *VISION
EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 40 TO 48
_COMMENTARY: KEITH SIMONS; TRANSLATION: IAN MACKERVOY._
ABOUT EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 40 TO 48
Terrible events happened in Jerusalem during Ezekiel’s...
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At first sight, Ezekiel thought that he saw a city. But actually, this
was just the *temple and the *holy buildings that surrounded it. The
old *temple was in a city, that is, Jerusalem. But Ezekiel s...
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IN THE VISIONS OF GOD. — This expression presupposes that what
follows is an ideal description rather than an account of anything
that ever had or ever should have a literal existence. The same
expres...
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בְּ מַרְאֹ֣ות אֱלֹהִ֔ים הֱבִיאַ֖נִי
אֶל ־אֶ֣רֶץ...
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THE IMPORT OF THE VISION
WE have now reached the last and in every way the most important
section of the book of Ezekiel. The nine concluding Chapter s record
what was evidently the crowning experienc...
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This final section must be studied in relation to all that has
immediately preceded it, wherein the spiritual restoration and
cleansing of the people had been foretold. The picture of the restored
ord...
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Mountain; Moria, in spirit. On the eastern side, the road to the city
was level. Walls were added after the captivity, on the other sides.
(Josephus, Jewish Wars vi. 6.) --- City, the temple was so la...
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There is somewhat very striking in the Prophet's method of describing
this vision: the hand of the Lord (he saith) was upon him. And certain
it is, that whosoever reads this Chapter, and all the remai...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 40, 41, 42, AND 43.
The remaining part of the prophecy is the establishment of His
sanctuary in the midst of His people. The reader will perceive that we
find...
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IN THE VISIONS OF GOD BROUGHT HE ME INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL,.... Or by
the spirit of prophecy, as the Targum again; that is, being under the
impressions of the Spirit of God, it appeared to him, in a...
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In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set
me upon a very high mountain, by which [was] as the frame of a city on
the south.
Ver. 2. _Brought he me,_] _i.e., _ The Spirit br...
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_In the five and twentieth year of our captivity_ Of the captivity of
those that were carried away with Jehoiachin, eleven years before
Jerusalem was taken. _In the beginning of the year_ In the month...
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In the visions of God, in which his mind was entirely detached from
his body, BROUGHT HE ME INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL AND SET ME UPON A VERY
HIGH MOUNTAIN, figurative for the mountain of God's holiness,...
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THE VISION OF THE TEMPLE-BUILDING.
The remaining Chapter s of Ezekiel's prophecy give an ideal picture of
the spiritual temple of the Lord, of His Church of the New Testament,
of his glorious kingdom....
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BY WHICH:
Or, upon which...
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IN THE VISIONS: by this it appears it was not a corporeal transumption
of the prophet: see EZEKIEL 8:3. BROUGHT ME: see EZEKIEL 40:1. INTO
THE LAND OF ISRAEL; the land of Canaan was in a scheme repres...
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THE NEW TEMPLE (EZEKIEL 40:1 TO EZEKIEL 48:35).
The book of Ezekiel began with a vision of the glory of God and the
coming of the heavenly chariot throne of God in order to speak
directly to His peopl...
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CONTENTS: Vision of the man with the measuring reed. The future temple
and its service.
CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel, sons of Zadok.
CONCLUSION: A great and beautiful temple, framed in detail in the
cou...
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Ezekiel 40:1. _In the five and twentieth year of our captivity._ When
the pious jews were dispirited, the Lord revived them with the hopes
of a better temple than that which Solomon had built. This wh...
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_A measuring reed._
THE MEASURING REED
It is a complex and mysterious thing,--this human life which it is
appointed us to live. At first glance it seems as if it were simply
the outflowing of ourselv...
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EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 40:1 Vision of Restoration. With the last
date in the book appearing at Ezekiel 40:1, Ezekiel arrives at the
beginning of the end. The book’s fin
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THE IDEAL TEMPLE OF THE FUTURE (Chap. 40)
EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 40:1. “IN THE FIVE AND TWENTIETH
YEAR.” The fiftieth year from the 18th of Josiah, the year of his
memorable passover (2 Kings 22:1...
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EXPOSITION
The magnificent temple-vision, as it is usually styled, a description
of which forms the closing section of this book (Ezekiel 40-48.), was
the last extended" word" communicated to the prop...
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CHAPTER 40:1-48.
THE POSITION, WALLS, GATES, AND COURTS OF THE TEMPLE.
IT is not our purpose to go into greater length on the details of this
closing vision, than is absolutely necessary to convey a...
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We want to get into the study of Ezekiel tonight, and right off the
top I would like to confess to you that of all of the Bible and the
passages in the Bible, I understand this the least. I do not pre...
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1 Chronicles 28:12; 1 Chronicles 28:19; 2 Corinthians 12:1; Acts 16:9;...
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In the visions of God — By this it appears it was not a corporeal
transportation of the prophet. The frame — The portrait of a city.
On the south — On the south of the mountain, where the prophet was...