This is the land, whose south bounds are here repeated, the north bounds Ezekiel 48:1. Ye shall divide by lot; not casting lots, but assigning the shares. These are their portions; these above described are the particular shares of each tribe. read more
THE IDEAL ALLOTMENT OF THE HOLY LAND. (Chap. 48)EXEGETICAL NOTES.—The order of the original occupation of the Holy Land by the tribes under Joshua is partly, but only partly, followed. It is a new order of things, and its ideal character is evinced, as elsewhere, by exact and equal measurements. From north to south seven tribes succeed each other—Dan, Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephraim, Reuben, Judah, each occupying the full breadth of the land from east to west. Then comes a portion separated... read more
REFLECTIONS. In the forty fifth chapter, the prophet had begun to describe the division of the land, but being attracted by the astonishing waters of the river of life, he digressed to describe their healing virtues, and the course they took towards the east. In the two verses preseding this chapter he resumes the subject. We may here remark, that the mode of dividing the country is very dissimilar from that made by Joshua, for here we find that strangers are allowed an inheritance with the... read more
Ezekiel 48:1-35The Lord is there.Ezekiel’s last visionThe following are some of the principal heads of prophetic instruction intended by the vision.1. That there was to be an entire new state of things in the Church. This is intimated by the new order in the arrangement of the tribes, which is not according to the birth of the patriarchs, nor the blessing of Jacob, nor the allotments they received in the ancient division of the land by Joshua. It is farther intimated by the grant of a distinct... read more
Eze 48:29 This [is] the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these [are] their portions, saith the Lord GOD. Ver. 29. This is the land. ] This is the epilogue of the whole chapter as to the greatness of the holy city. It remaineth only to touch at the situation and measures thereof, the gates also, and the ministers, together with their use and maintenance, the elegance, lastly, and perpetuity of the city. For inheritance. ] Not from the brook, as... read more
Ezekiel 47:13-Song of Solomon :, Numbers 34:2, Numbers 34:13, Joshua 13:1 - Joshua 21:45 Reciprocal: Leviticus 16:8 - cast lots Joshua 18:10 - cast lots Ezekiel 45:1 - shall divide by lot Ezekiel 47:14 - fall read more
23-29. South of the sacred square and the domain of the prince shall lie in parallel sections the lands belonging to Benjamin, Simeon, Issachar, Zebulun, and Gad the southernmost border of the Holy Land running from Tamar to Meribath-kadesh, and then alongside the Wady-el-Arish to the Mediterranean. (See Ezekiel 47:18-19, and notes; also map facing page 232.) read more
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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 48:1-35
Ezekiel 48. The Tribal Allotments.— The holy city, Jerusalem, with its environments is significantly regarded as the true centre, geographical no less than religious, of the country; but, as in point of fact it really lay in the southern half, the prophet, in his ideal allotment of the land, makes a concession to geographical fact by putting seven tribes to the north, arranged in parallel strips, viz. Dan, Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephraim, Reuben, and Judah ( Ezekiel 48:1-Judges :), and... read more