The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 47:13-23
The boundaries of the land, and the manner of its division. read more
以西結書 47:15-18 Rcuvts
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 47:13-23
Canaan a type of heaven. To the Jews exiled in Chaldea restoration to Palestine seemed a lesser heaven. To regain their land, their ancestral estates, their temple, their priesthood, was the goal of present ambition, was a steppingstone to yet higher good. The prophetic pictures of Ezekiel were designed to tempt their thoughts to loftier soarings. A better thing than Canaan was in store for them, but as yet they could not appreciate it, therefore could not perceive it. So, by slow and... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 47:15
The north boundary . And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side . The Revised Version follows Kliefoth and Keil in detaching the last clause from the preceding words, and reading. This shall be the border of the land : on the north side . From the great sea , the Mediterranean, by the way of Hethlon, as men go to (or, unto the entering in of ) Zedad . The former of these places ( Chethlon ), which is again mentioned in Ezekiel 48:1 , has not yet been... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 47:16
The four names here mentioned belong to towns or places lying on the road to Zedad, and stretching from west to east. Hamath , called also Hamath the Great ( Amos 6:2 ), situated on the Orontes, north of Hermon and Antilibanus ( Joshua 13:5 ; 3:3 ), was the capital of a kingdom to which also belonged Riblah ( 2 Kings 23:33 ). Originally colonized by the Canaanites ( Genesis 10:18 ), it became in David's time a flourishing kingdom under Toi, who formed an alliance with the Hebrew... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 47:17
The northern boundary is further defined as extending from the sea, i.e. the Mediterranean on the west, to Hazar-enan , or the "Village of fountains," in the east, which village again is declared to have been the border , frontier city (Keil), at the border (Revised Version) of Damascus , and as having on the north northward the border or territory of Hamath. The final clause adds, And this is the north side , either understanding וְאֵת , with Gesenius, as equivalent to ... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 47:18
The east boundary . And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, etc. The Revised Version, after Keil and Kliefoth, translates, And the east side , between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead , and the land of Israel , shall be (the) Jordan ; from the (north) border unto the east sea shall ye measure . Smend offers as the correct rendering, The east side goes from between Hauran and Damascus , and from between Gilead and the land of Israel , along the Jordan , from the... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 47:15
The borders of the land follow closely Numbers 34:0, where they begin from the south, as the people came up from Egypt; in Ezekiel, they begin from the north, as they might return from Babylon. The occupation is ideal, but is grounded, as usual, on an actual state of things.The border of the land toward the north - Names of places in the actual northern border are given (marginal references) not to mark exact geographical position, but to show that the original promise will be fulfilled.The way... read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 47:16
“Berothah,” probably the same as “Berothai” (marginal reference), lay between Hamath and Damascus, as did “Sibraim.”“Hazar-hatticon” is probably, as in the margin, “the middle Hazar,” to distinguish it from Hazar-enan Ezekiel 47:17. read more
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 47:17
And the north ... - Or, “and on the north, the border on the north shall be” etc. read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Ezekiel 47:13-21
The inheritance of the children. The prophet was locking forward to the restoration of his fellow-countrymen to the land given by God to their fathers. The temple and all that concerns its services and ministrations having been described, Ezekiel naturally turns in the next place to picture the repossessed and apportioned inheritances. There are difficulties in interpreting this passage relating to the territories given to the several tribes; but there can be no doubt that the prophet... read more