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Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 48:21

Or, “And the residue shall be for the prince - on the one side and on the other side of the holy oblation and of the possession of the city over against the 25,000 of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the 25,000 toward the west border, over against the portions (of Judah and Benjamin, between which the oblation was included), shall be “for the prince; and it shall be that the holy oblation and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.” This exactly... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 48:21

Ezekiel 48:21. The residue shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other, &c. The prince’s part shall be extended, both on the east and west side of the several allotments belonging to the priests, the Levites, and the city. Over against the five and twenty thousand, &c. The particle אל פני , translated over against, is rendered before, in the parallel text, Ezekiel 45:7, and thus interpreted makes the sense clearer, the words then importing, that the prince’s... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 48:22

Ezekiel 48:22. Moreover from, or rather, beyond, the possession of the Levites, and beyond the possession of the city That is, the possessions belonging to the priests and Levites, and the city, were to be bounded on the east and west side with the prince’s portion; so those were to lie in the middle, and this beyond them. Between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin shall be for the prince The border of Judah was to extend from east to west, next to the holy portion, on the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Ezekiel 48:23-28

Ezekiel 48:23-28. As for the rest of the tribes, &c. The portion assigned for Judah being situate next to the holy portion on the north side, that assigned to Benjamin lay next to the ground allotted to the city on the south side. All these allotments ran from east to west in length, and from north to south in breadth. In the 24th and the next three verses, the four remaining tribes have their allotments assigned them, lying on the south side of the holy portion. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 48:1-29

Click image for full-size versionDivisions of the land (48:1-29)Land to the north of the specially allocated central portion (see 45:1-8) was divided into seven equal portions by drawing parallel lines from the Mediterranean Sea to the eastern boundary. Although the terrain of the country would make such a division impossible in practice, the division had meaning. It indicated a measure of equality among the tribes (for their portions were equal in area; see 47:14), though there was a... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Ezekiel 48:23

Benjamin. Note the positions of these five tribes in the south. See the Structure (F2), p. 1175. a = one. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 48:21

Ezekiel 48:21. And on the other, &c.— And on the other, of the holy portion, and of the possession of the city before the five-and-twenty thousand of the sacred portion, toward the east border: and westward, before the five-and-twenty thousand toward the west border; besides these portions shall be that belonging to the prince: and this shall be the holy portion, &c. Houbigant renders the last clause, and the sanctuary of the temple, and that which shall be reserved for the sanctuary,... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 48:22

Ezekiel 48:22. From the possession—and from— Beyond the possession—and beyond. Houbigant reads the verse thus, After the possession of the Levites, and after the possession of the city, which shall be in the midst, shall be the portion of the prince; so that the prince may have that which shall be in the midst between the border of Judah, and the border of Benjamin. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 48:21-22

The prince would receive the rest of this allotment, on the east and west sides of this square and between the boundaries of the tribes of Judah on the north and Benjamin on the south. read more

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