Ezekiel 47:1
RIGHT SIDE] i.e. S.: so in Ezekiel 47:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
RIGHT SIDE] i.e. S.: so in Ezekiel 47:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LIFEGIVING STREAM Ezekiel was now brought in his vision to the door of the Temple proper. Here he saw a stream of water which came from beneath the threshold somewhat to the S. of the entrance, and ran eastwards, crossing the inner court on the S. of the altar, and leaving the outer court on the... [ Continue Reading ]
§ 2. THE ORDINANCES OF THE NEW ISRAEL (EZEKIEL 40-48) This concluding section of the book is dated in the twenty-fifth year of Ezekiel's captivity, i.e. the fourteenth year after the fall of Jerusalem (572 b.c.). It is therefore thirteen years later than the previous section (Ezekiel 33-39), and, wi... [ Continue Reading ]
Ezekiel was led from the inner court through the inner and outer N. gates, round to the outside of the outer E. gate. This was necessary, as both the inner and outer E. gates were shut.... [ Continue Reading ]
EAST COUNTRY] the wilderness of Judaea, between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea. DESERT] RV 'Arabah', the great depression of the Jordan valley and Dead Sea.... [ Continue Reading ]
RIVERS] should be 'river,'as in LXX.... [ Continue Reading ]
ENGEDI.. EN-EGLAIM] places on the shore of the Dead Sea. The situation of the latter is unknown. THE GREAT SEA] the Mediterranean.... [ Continue Reading ]
BE CONSUMED] RV 'fail', ACCORDING TO HIS MONTHS] RV 'every month', MEDICINE] RV 'healing.'... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BOUNDARIES OF THE LAND This passage may be compared with Numbers 34:1. The N. border started from a point on the Mediterranean, and ran eastward by Hamath and other places to Hazar-enon, between Damascus and the Hauran. The E. border ran southward from here, between Gilead and the land of Israe... [ Continue Reading ]
LIFTED UP MINE HAND] sware. 15, 16. HETHLON.. ZEDAD.. BEROTHAH, SIBRAIM] are unknown localities. AS MEN GO TO ZEDAD; HAMATH] RV 'unto the entering in of Zedad, Hamath'. Hamath and Zedad have probably changed places. 'The entering in of Hamath 'was a well-known pass between Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon.... [ Continue Reading ]
HAZAR-ENAN, THE BORDER, etc.] RV 'Hazar-enon at the border'. Hazar-enon and Hazar-hatticon (Ezekiel 47:16) are probably the same.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE SHALL MEASURE] should 'possibly be 'from Hazar-enon' (see Ezekiel 47:19). FROM HAURAN, AND FROM DAMASCUS] must mean 'between Hauran and Damascus', where Hazar-enon lay (Ezekiel 47:16). Hauran is a district E. of the Jordan and S. of Damascus. FROM GILEAD, AND FROM THE LAND OF ISRAEL] means, 'betw... [ Continue Reading ]
TAMAR] unknown, but probably near the S. end of the Dead Sea. STRIFE _in_ KADESH] RV 'Meriboth-kadesh', Kadesh-barnea, in the wilderness on the S. of Palestine (Numbers 20:13). THE RIVER] RV 'the brook of Egypt', the Rhmocolura or Wady-el-Arish, which enters the Mediterranean at its SE. corner.... [ Continue Reading ]