Afterward he measured a thousand; [and it was] a river that I could not pass over: for the waters had risen, waters to swim in, a (b) river that could not be passed over.
(b) Signifying that the graces of God would never decrease, but ever abound in his Church.
Verse Ezekiel 47:5. Ezekiel 47:3....
The rivers in Palestine were for the most part mere watercourses, dry in summer, in winter carrying the water along the wadys to the sea. The river of the vision is to have a continuous flow. WATERS T...
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...
Successive measurements shewed a depth to the knees, the loins, and finally an impassable river. The word rendered "river" is the usual one for "brook" or wady, viz. a stream with its valley or gorge....
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...
AND WHEN THE MAN—WENT FORTH— The gradual rise of the waters denotes the large effusion of the Spirit, which was very remarkable at the first publication of the gospel, and its wonderful increase from...
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...
And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ancles. When the man that had the line...
§ 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...
EZEKIEL’S LAST *VISION EZEKIEL CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _COMMENTARY: KEITH SIMONS; TRANSLATION: IAN MACKERVOY._ CHAPTER 47 THE *TEMPLE RIVER – EZEKIEL 47:1-12 V1 The man brought me back to the entran...
Ezekiel was only a little more than a mile from the *temple. (That is, about 2 kilometres.) But already the stream had become a river. It had not become a river because other streams had joined it. It...
A RIVER THAT COULD NOT BE PASSED OVER. — The whole distance measured is 4,000 cubits, or less than a mile and a half, during which the waters, without external addition, have swollen from a mere strea...
וַ יָּ֣מָד אֶ֔לֶף נַ֕חַל אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹֽא ־אוּכַ֖
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...
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...
AFTERWARD HE MEASURED A THOUSAND,.... A fourth time a thousand cubits. Some think these four measurings respect the preaching of the Gospel in the four parts of the world; but rather they refer to fou...
Afterward he measured a thousand; [and it was] a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over. Ver. 5. _A river that could not...
Afterward He measured a thousand, and it was a river, it had grown to the dimensions of a great stream, THAT I COULD NOT PASS OVER, FOR THE WATERS WERE RISEN, WATERS TO SWIM IN, A RIVER THAT COULD NOT...
THE STREAM OF LIVING WATERS...
WATERS TO SWIM: _ Heb._ waters of swimming...
This was all done in vision, and these waters thus increased were visional waters; there was no such natural course of waters in the place, nor is it imaginable, that in three miles or thereabouts, wh...
Ezekiel 47:5 measured H4058 (H8799) thousand H505 river H5158 could H3201 (H8799) cross H5674 (H8800) water...
‘When the man went forth eastward with the line in his hand, he measured a thousand cubits, and he caused me to pass through the waters, waters that were to the ankles. Again he measured a thousand, a...
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...
_Waters to swim in._ WATERS TO SWIM IN I. The first thought of the text concerning the Gospel is this, the idea of abundance. 1. The abundant provision for the removal of sin and for making us accep...
_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...
Daniel 2:34; Daniel 2:35; Habakkuk 2:14; Isaiah 11:9; Matthew 13:31;...