_He brought me again to the door of the house_ The door of the temple, described Ezekiel 41:2. _And behold, waters issued from under the threshold eastward_ Ezekiel had repeatedly walked round the house, and had surveyed the doors of it, but had not discovered this stream of water springing from und... [ Continue Reading ]
_And when the man that had the line_ The angel, described with _a line in his hand, Ezekiel 40:3_; _went forth eastward_ Went on directly from the east gate; _he measured_ By the line in his hand; _a thousand cubits_ Almost the third part of an English mile; _and he brought me through the waters_ To... [ Continue Reading ]
_And he said, Son of man, hast thou seen this?_ Hast thou considered, or taken notice of, this vision now showed unto thee? To _see_, often signifies to take notice of what we see: on the contrary, they are said to _have eyes and see not_, who do not observe what is placed before their eyes. This is... [ Continue Reading ]
_Then said he, These waters issue toward the east country_ These waters are described as taking their course along the plain, or champaign country, (for that is the sense of the word here rendered _desert,_) toward the lake where Sodom formerly stood, called _the Dead sea_, and by Moses, _the Salt s... [ Continue Reading ]
_Fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi unto En-eglaim_ En- gedi was in the wilderness of Judah, Joshua 15:61. De L'Isle places it toward the south-west point of the Dead sea; and _En-eglaim_ is placed by the same writer at the north of the Dead sea, where Jordan runs into it. It is mentioned, Isa... [ Continue Reading ]
_But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed_ “There shall still remain some marshes, creeks, or swamps, into which these healing waters shall not find an entrance; and these must be left incurably sterile and worthless.” Scott. This represents the case of those countri... [ Continue Reading ]
_And by the river, upon the bank thereof, shall grow all trees for meat_ See the note on Ezekiel 47:7. By these trees may be understood, “the plenteous provisions of the gospel, the precious promises of the sacred word, and the privileges of believers, as communicated to their souls by the quickenin... [ Continue Reading ]
_This shall be the border_, &c. The borders described in the following part of this chapter shall be the limits or boundaries of your country; _whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel_ By the several captivities both of Israel and Judah, the several limits or borde... [ Continue Reading ]
_And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another_ Namely, the ten tribes which are scattered abroad as well as Judah and Benjamin. These two tribes, together with some of the families of the tribe of Levi, made up the principal part of those who returned from the Babylonish captivity; by which it ap... [ Continue Reading ]
_This shall be the border toward the north_ The northern border of the land was to begin from the west point, on which side lay the Mediterranean sea, and to go on northward toward _Hethlon_, a place between Tyre and Damascus, and so forward to _Zedad_, mentioned Numbers 34:8, _Hamath_, and other pl... [ Continue Reading ]
_And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran_ The city Aurana, and the district Auranitis, the north-east limit of the Holy Land. Damascus lay more northerly than Hauran, but the country called Auranitis might reach near it. Gilead is well known to have been a long tract of land, which was extend... [ Continue Reading ]
_And the south side southward_ The southern frontier shall be from En-gedi, called _Hazazon-tamar, 2 Chronicles 20:2_, to the waters of _Meribah_, or _strife, in Kadesh_, in the south limit of Judah, and from thence _to the river_ of Egypt, namely, Besor, which runs into the sea not far from Gaza.... [ Continue Reading ]
_The west side shall be the great sea from the border_ That is, from the southern border, mentioned in the foregoing verse. _Till a man come over against Hamath_ Or rather, till a man come to Hamath, the northern point toward the west frontier.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Ye shall divide it by lot for an inheritance unto you_ See the note on Ezekiel 47:14. _And to the strangers that sojourn among you_ Foreigners never before had the privilege of purchasing or possessing any inheritance among the Jews; so this mystically denotes the incorporating the Gentiles into th... [ Continue Reading ]