The stream continued through the outer area. The *worshippers had to cross this area whenever they visited the *temple (46:9). And the prince had to cross it too (46:10). So they all had to cross the stream. They all needed God’s Holy Spirit to give them new life. They all needed God to remove their *sin. (Compare John 13:8.)
Verse Ezekiel 47:2. _THERE RAN OUT WATERS_] מים מפכים _mayim mephaccim_, the waters seem to have been at first _in small quantity_; for the words imply that they _oozed_ or _dropped out_. They were at...
OUT OF THE WAY OF THE GATE NORTHWARD - Rather, by the way of the northward gate....
III. THE VISION CONCERNING THE LAND (47-48) CHAPTER 4 7 _ 1. The waters of healing from the temple (Ezekiel 47:1) _ 2. Borders of the land (Ezekiel 47:13) 3. Concerning the stranger in the land ...
EZEKIEL 47, 48. THE HOLY LAND, ITS BEAUTY, BOUNDARIES, AND DIVISIONS. Now that the Temple and its worship, which are indispensable to the welfare of the land, have been described, Ezekiel directs his...
UTTER. is outer....
The river issuing from the temple. The prophet saw a stream issuing from beneath the threshold of the house, which pursued its way eastward, passing the altar on the south side and emerging into the o...
The eastern gates being shut (Ezekiel 44:2; Ezekiel 46:1) the prophet is led put by the N. gate, round to the outer E. gate, at which he beheld the stream emerge into the open at the S. side of the ga...
THEN BROUGHT HE ME OUT OF THE WAY, &C.— _Out by the way,_ &c. Houbigant. _There ran out waters on the right side;_ that is to say, from the south of the temple to the east; therefore the measure of th...
III. THE FUTURE LAND 47:1-48:35 In his last vision Ezekiel observes the blessing which the people of God would enjoy in the new Temple age. In that blessed land the tribes of Israel would have eternal...
THEN BROUGHT HE ME OUT OF THE WAY OF THE GATE NORTHWARD, AND LED ME ABOUT THE WAY WITHOUT UNTO THE UTTER GATE BY THE WAY THAT LOOKETH EASTWARD; AND, BEHOLD, THERE RAN OUT WATERS ON THE RIGHT SIDE. N...
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....
§ 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...
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, an...
OUT OF THE WAY OF THE GATE NORTHWARD. — Rather, _out by the way of the north gate._ The east gate, the direct way, was shut (Ezekiel 44:2); the prophet was therefore carried round to the outside of it...
וַ יֹּוצִאֵנִי֮ דֶּֽרֶךְ ־שַׁ֣עַר צָפֹונָה֒ וַ...
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...
Again Ezekiel was taken to the door of the house, and there beheld the wonderful symbolic river. Its source was the sanctuary. It proceeded under the threshold, and past the altar, and outward in an e...
_East. This gate was shut, and therefore he went out at the north gate. (Calmet)_...
If we compare scripture with scripture, (and, which God the Holy Ghost commands, 1 Corinthians 2:13) we shall take the most effectual method of arriving to the proper apprehension of what is here said...
_THE RIVER OF LIFE_ Ezekiel 47:1 To Ezekiel the river meant the blessings of Messiah’s reign. The last page of the Apocalypse tells of the river of water of life that proceeds from the throne of God...
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...
THEN BROUGHT HE ME OUT OF THE WAY OF THE GATE NORTHWARD,.... Out of the inward court where he was, by the way of the north gate, the eastern gate being shut: AND LED ME ABOUT THE WAY WITHOUT UNTO THE...
Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side. Ve...
THE STREAM OF LIVING WATERS...
Then brought He me out of the way of the gate northward, for the portal on the east was locked, AND LED ME ABOUT THE WAY WITHOUT UNTO THE UTTER GATE BY THE WAY THAT LOOKETH EASTWARD, so that Ezekiel m...
THEN BROUGHT HE ME OUT OF THE INMOST COURT, where he saw the waters running under the threshold, and by the south side of the altar. THE WAY OF THE GATE NORTHWARD: the east gate being shut, the prophe...
Ezekiel 47:2 out H3318 (H8686) way H1870 north H6828 gate H8179 around H5437 (H8686) outside H1870 outer...
‘Then he brought me out by the way of the north gate, and led me round by the outside route to the outer gate, that is, by the route of the gate that looks towards the east. And behold, there ran out...
CHAPTER EZEKIEL 47:1 THE RIVERS OF LIVING WATER. The first twelve verses of this chapter deal with the vision of rivers of living water flowing from the temple, beginning as a small streamlet and mult...
CONTENTS: River of the new sanctuary. Borders of the land. CHARACTERS: God, Ezekiel. CONCLUSION: Revelation 22:1-2; Zechariah 14:8-9. KEY WORD: River of sanctuary, Ezekiel 47:1
Ezekiel 47:16. _Hamath,_ a city commanding the passage of mount Lebanon, and the north-west boundary of the Israelites. 1 Chronicles 13:5. REFLECTIONS. The jews rejoiced more when they poured water...
_He measured a thousand cubits._ CURIOUS THINGS IN LIFE This chapter is a chapter of measurement. Everything is meted out, as it were, by so many cubits and inches. The voice is very dogmatic:--“This...
EZEKIEL—NOTE ON EZEKIEL 47:1 The tour brings Ezekiel back into the inner court. The DOOR OF THE TEMPLE (v. Ezekiel 47:1) is that of the sanctuary itself. There begin
THE VISION OF THE HOLY WATERS ISSUING FROM THE TEMPLE. (Chap. 47) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 47:1. “THE HOUSE EASTWARD.” The house is the Temple itself; the waters issued from beneath the south-east...
EXPOSITION As the first part of Ezekiel's vision (Ezekiel 40-43.) dealt with the temple, or "house," and the second (Ezekiel 44-47.) with the ritual, or "worship," so the third, which beans with the p...
CHAPTER 47:1-12. VISION OF THE TEMPLE WATERS. IT is necessary to take the first part of this chapter apart from the second, which relates to a different subject, the new division of the land, and whi...
Now in chapter 47 we find this river that comes forth from this east gate. Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, the waters issued out from under the threshold of the...
Ezekiel 44:2; Ezekiel 44:4...
Out — Of the inmost court. The outer gate — The outmost north — gate in the wall that compassed the whole mountain of the Lord's house....