Shall be for food. — This piece of land, only four times the size of the city itself, would seem a very insufficient provision for raising all the food required for the labourers of the city. But here, as everywhere, it is to be remembered that the description is ideal
Ezekiel 48:18 THEN, THAT SERVE - i. e., the cultivators or farmers. Ezekiel 48:19 Of old the city belonged to Benjamin and Judah, and its inhabitants were mainly from these tribes. Now all the tribe...
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...
As the city with its suburbs was a square of 5000 cubits, there remained of the 25,000 in length assigned to it a portion 10,000 long on the E. and another equally long on the W. In their length these...
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...
_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 residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and th...
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...
SERVE] RV 'labour in': so in Ezekiel 48:19....
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...
Here was the land were where people from the city could grow their crops. God provides food for people as well as animals. His kindness lasts always (Psalms 136:25). THE SHARE OF LAND FOR THE PRINCE...
וְ הַ נֹּותָ֨ר בָּ † אֹ֜רֶךְ לְ...
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...
_As the, &c. They shall not be alienated, as some might infer from its being said to be profane, which term is used because it was the habitation of laymen._...
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 RESIDUE IN LENGTH OVER AGAINST THE OBLATION OF THE HOLY PORTION SHALL BE TEN THOUSAND EASTWARD, AND TEN THOUSAND WESTWARD,.... What remained in length, which ran parallel with the holy portion...
And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy [portion shall be] ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy [portion]; an...
_And the residue in length over against_ [or _beside_] _the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward and ten thousand westward_ These two dimensions, of ten thousand in length both...
And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward and ten thousand westward; and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion, that is...
THE DIVISION OF THE NEW CANAAN...
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 paral...
Ezekiel 48:18 rest H3498 (H8737) length H753 alongside H5980 district H8641 holy H6944 ten H6235 thousand H505 east
“And the residue in length answerable to the holy Gift-offering shall be ten thousand eastward and ten thousand westward. And it shall be answerable to the holy Gift-offering. And its increase shall b...
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...
REFLECTIONS. In the forty fifth chapter, the prophet had begun to describe the division of the land, but being attracted by the astonishing waters of the river of life, he digressed to describe their...
_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...
Ezra 2:43; Joshua 9:27; Nehemiah 7:46...
For food — For the maintenance of the city — officers....