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Ezekiel 48:8
The most important place in *Israel did not belong to any *tribe. It belonged to God. And the *temple was in its centre.
The most important place in *Israel did not belong to any *tribe. It belonged to God. And the *temple was in its centre.
“Length” is throughout measured from west to east, as breadth is from north to south. The offering Ezekiel 48:9, or, “oblation,” here includes all the land given to priests, Levites, city, and prince;...
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...
OFFERING. heave offering. Hebrew. _terumah_. (App-43.) See note on Exodus 29:27. The same word as "oblation", Ezekiel 48:9. the whole area of which is to be considered as the heave offering offered to...
_the offering_… reeds in _breadth_ The OBLATION (Ezekiel 45:1) … CUBITS IN BREADTH, i.e. N. to S. This is the breadth of the whole part subtracted from the territory of the country, and devoted to the...
SHALL BE THE OFFERING, &C.— _Shall be the sacred portion which they shall set apart of five-and-twenty thousand cubits._...
_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 by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Judah. No JFB commentary on these verses....
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...
OFFERING] RV 'oblation'. See Ezekiel 48:9; Ezekiel 48:20; Ezekiel 48:21. _Reeds_] should be 'cubits', and so throughout....
XLVIII. The closing chapter of Ezekiel is mainly occupied with the distribution of the land in detail. Beginning at the north, a portion is assigned to each of seven tribes (Ezekiel 48:1); then the “o...
וְ עַל֙ גְּב֣וּל יְהוּדָ֔ה מִ פְּאַ֥ת קָדִ֖ים
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...
And by the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, (b) shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand [reeds in] breadth, and [in] length as one of the [other] pa...
Apart, for the Levitical tribe and the prince. (Calmet) --- As the first-born and things which spring first, so also the land consecrated to the Lord is called first-fruits. (Worthington) --- Thousand...
The Reader will observe, that the Prophet is here describing the several tribes on the north, according to their portions. I the rather wish to consider the subject spiritually, and therefore cannot b...
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 BY THE BORDER OF JUDAH, FROM THE EAST SIDE UNTO THE WEST SIDE, SHALL BE THE OFFERING,.... Or the oblation of a holy portion of the land unto the Lord before made mention of, Ezekiel 45:1 this was...
And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand [reeds in] breadth, and [in] length as one of the [other] part...
_By the border of Judah, &c., shall be the offering_, &c. Next to the border of Judah, which runs in length from east to west, shall be the offering ye shall set apart for the service of God, Ezekiel...
And by the border of Judah, adjoining it on the south, FROM THE EAST SIDE UNTO THE WEST SIDE, SHALL BE THE OFFERING WHICH YE SHALL OFFER, the section set apart for the Sanctuary and its surroundings,...
THE DIVISION OF THE NEW CANAAN...
THE OFFERING; the holy portion, of which EZEKIEL 45:1, set out for priests, Levites, and city, EZEKIEL 45:4. REEDS is here supplied by the translators, but I rather think _cubits_; for the greatness o...
Ezekiel 48:8 border H1366 Judah H3063 east H6921 side H6285 west H3220 H6285 district H8641 apart...
THE HOLY PORTION AND THE CITY (EZEKIEL 48:8). COMPARE EZEKIEL 45:1. “And by the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side, will be the Gift-offering that you will offer, twenty five thousan...
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...
2 Corinthians 6:16; Colossians 2:9; Ephesians 2:20; Ezekiel 45:1;...