エゼキエル書 47:3-5 JCB

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 47:1-12

The temple river 47:1-12 read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Ezekiel 47:3-5

The "man" took his measuring line (cf. Ezekiel 40:3) and measured 1,000 cubits (about one-third of a mile) east from the wall along the watercourse. He led Ezekiel across the river (Heb. nahal), and it was ankle deep. Another 1,000 cubits farther east they crossed again, and this time the water was knee-deep. Another 1,000 cubits, and it was up to his waist. Another 1,000 cubits, and it was so deep that they could not cross it standing up. It was so deep they would have had to swim across.This... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 47:1-12

The Lifegiving StreamEzekiel 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, and ran eastwards, crossing the inner court on the S. of the altar, and leaving the outer court on the S. of the outer E. gate. It rapidly deepened till it became an unfordable river, with trees on both its banks. It traversed the barren region between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea, and entering the... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 47:1-23

§ 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 (572 b.c.). It is therefore thirteen years later than the previous section (Ezekiel 33-39), and, with the exception of Ezekiel 29:17-21, forms the latest part of the book. It is in the form of a vision, which is the counterpart of that in Ezekiel 8-11. There God forsook the old Temple which had... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ezekiel 47:3

(3) Brought me through the waters.—The point from which the measurement began is not distinctly mentioned, but is to be assumed as from their source, the threshold of the house. The prophet is “brought through the waters” to impress upon him a vivid sense of their size and depth, and this is repeated at each 1,000 cubits until the waters become impassable. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Ezekiel 47:5

(5) 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 streamlet to an impassable river, in direct opposition to the ordinary fact in nature. A large part (1,500 cubits, or half of 3,000 cubits) of this distance must have been within the precincts described in Ezekiel 42:16-20, but the prophet takes no notice of this, as the whole is ideal, and the... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Ezekiel 47:1-23

Ezekiel 47:5 I tell you, sirs, you must not trust your own apprehensions nor judgments of the mercy of God; you do not know how He can cause it to abound: that which seems to be short and shrunk up to you, He can draw out and cause to abound exceedingly.... This therefore is a wonderful thing, and shall be wondered at to all eternity, that the river of mercy, that at first did seem to be but ancle-deep, should so rise and rise that at last it became 'waters to swim in, a river that could not be... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Ezekiel 47:1-23

RENEWAL AND ALLOTMENT OF THE LANDEzekiel 47:1-23; Ezekiel 48:1-35IN the first part of the forty-seventh chapter the visionary form of the revelation, which had been interrupted by the important series of communications on which we have been so long engaged, is again resumed. The prophet, once more under the direction of his angelic guide, sees a stream of water issuing from the Temple buildings and flowing eastward into the Dead Sea. Afterwards he receives another series of directions relating... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Ezekiel 47:1-23

III. THE VISION CONCERNING THE LAND (47-48) CHAPTER 4 7 1. The waters of healing from the temple (Ezekiel 47:1-12 ) 2. Borders of the land (Ezekiel 47:13-21 ) 3. Concerning the stranger in the land (Ezekiel 47:22-23 ) read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Ezekiel 47:5

47:5 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. read more