Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 47:2
There ran out waters - מפכים מים mayim mephaccim , the waters seem to have been at first in small quantity; for the words imply that they oozed or dropped out. They were at first so small that they came guttatim , drop by drop; but they increased so, that they became a river in which one could swim. read more
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Ezekiel 47:1
Behold, waters issued out from under the threshold - Ezekiel, after having made the whole compass of the court of the people, is brought back by the north gate into the courts of the priests; and, having reached the gate of the temple, he saw waters which had their spring under the threshold of that gate, that looked towards the east; and which passing to the south of the altar of burnt-offerings on the right of the temple, ran from the west to the east, that they might fall into the brook... read more