What does Ezekiel 47:8 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert,b and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed."
“The sea” is a term commonly applied to the Dead Sea. Compare Deuteronomy 3:17, “the sea of the plain (Arabah), even the salt sea.” The more literal rendering of the verse in this sense would be, “and...
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 (E...
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...
EAST COUNTRY. the eastern Allah i.e. circular border-land. Used of the Jordan in Joshua 22:11. DESERT. plain. Hebrew 'arabah. See Deuteronomy 3:17; Deuteronomy 4:49. the sea. THE SEA. called Salt, o...
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 GO DOWN INTO THE DESERT— That is to say, along the plain towards the lake, where Sodom formerly stood, called the _Dead_ or _Salt Sea._ Almost all the writers who describe this _sea_ or _lake,_ ob...
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 eterna...
Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. These water...
47:8 plain, (a-19) The _ Arabah_ . see Joshua 3:16 ....
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 entranc...
GO DOWN INTO THE DESERT. — The word for _country_ is the same as is used in Joshua 22:10, for the borders of the Jordan, and undoubtedly has the same meaning here: the valley of the Jordan, called the...
וַ יֹּ֣אמֶר אֵלַ֗י הַ מַּ֤יִם הָ אֵ֨לֶּה֙ יֹוצְאִ֗ים אֶל ־הַ גְּלִילָה֙ הַ קַּדְמֹונָ֔ה וְ...
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 o...
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...
Then said he to me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the (d) sea: [which being] brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. (d) Sho...
_The. Hebrew, "the east country," (Protestants; Haydock) or "the frontiers ( Gelilah) eastward," by which some improperly suppose that one rivulet went to the sea of Galilee. --- And shall. Hebrew, "t...
Here are many similar allusions, such as were before, in reference to the Lord Jesus, and his Gospel. The trees on the bank of this river cannot be misunderstood, if we read what is here said, with wh...
_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 SAID HE UNTO ME,.... The man that measured the waters spoke to the prophet again, and showed him the course of the waters; the quickening and healing virtue of them, and the multitude of fish in...
Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: [which being] brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. Ver. 8. _...
_Then said he, These waters issue toward the east country_ These waters are described as taking their course along the plain, or champaign country, (for that is the sense of the word here rendered _de...
THE STREAM OF LIVING WATERS...
DESERT: Or, plain...
THEN SAID HE: see EZEKIEL 47:6. THE EAST COUNTRY; some read it as a proper name, and so render it, they did run toward Galilee in the east, and the Hebrew bears it indeed, as to the sound of the word;...
Ezekiel 47:8 said H559 (H8799) water H4325 flows H3318 (H8802) eastern H6930 region H1552 down H3381 (H8804) valley H6160 enters H935 (H8804) sea H3220 reaches H3318 (H8716) sea H3220 waters H4325 hea...
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; borders, Ezekiel 47...
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 begins one of the most striking scenario...
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...
2 Kings 2:19; Deuteronomy 3:17; Deuteronomy 4:49; Isaiah 11:6; Isaiah 35:1; Isaiah 35:7; Isaiah 41:17; Isaiah 43:20; Isaiah 44:3; Isaia
The sea — The Dead — sea, or lake of Sodom. Shall be healed — The waters of the sea shall be healed, made wholesome. So where the grace of God from his temple and altar flows, it heals the corrupt nat...