Ezekiel 47:8 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert,b and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. ”

Ezekiel 47:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

“The sea” is a term commonly applied to the Dead Sea. Compare Deuteronomy 3:17 , “the sea of the plain (Arabah), even the salt sea.” The more literal rendering of the verse in this sense would be,...
Ezekiel 47:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Then said he to me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the (d) sea: [which being] brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. (d) Sh...
Ezekiel 47:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 47, 48. The Holy Land, its Beauty, Boundaries, and Divisions. Now that the Temple and its worship, which are indispensable to the welfare of the land, have been described, Ezekiel directs...
Ezekiel 47:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

east country . the eastern Allah i.e. circular border-land. Used of the Jordan in Joshua 22:11 . desert . plain. Hebrew 'arabah. See Deuteronomy 3:17 ; Deuteronomy 4:49 . the sea. The sea . c...
Ezekiel 47:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.
Ezekiel 47:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And go down into the desert— That is to say, along the plain towards the lake, where Sodom formerly stood, called the Dead or Salt Sea. Almost all the writers who describe this sea or lake,...
Ezekiel 47:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. T...
Ezekiel 47:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Lifegiving Stream Ezekiel 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...
Ezekiel 47:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Go down into the desert. — The word for country is the same as is used in Joshua 22:10-11 , for the borders of the Jordan, and undoubtedly has the same meaning here: the valley of the Jordan, ca...
Ezekiel 47:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

RENEWAL AND ALLOTMENT OF THE LAND Ezekiel 47:1-23 ; Ezekiel 48:1-35 IN the first part of the forty-seventh chapter the visionary form of the revelation, which had been interrupted by the impor...
Ezekiel 47:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Again Ezekiel was taken to the door of the house, and there beheld the wonderful symbolic river. Its source was the sanctuary. It proceeded under the threshold, and past the altar, and outward in an...
Ezekiel 47:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Here are many similar allusions, such as were before, in reference to the Lord Jesus, and his Gospel. The trees on the bank of this river cannot be misunderstood, if we read what is here said, with w...
Ezekiel 47:8 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

THE RIVER OF LIFE Ezekiel 47:1-11 To Ezekiel the river meant the blessings of Messiah’s reign. The last page of the Apocalypse tells of the river of water of life that proceeds from the thron...
Ezekiel 47:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then said he unto me ,.... The man that measured the waters spoke to the prophet again, and showed him the course of the waters; the quickening and healing virtue of them, and the multitude of fish...
Ezekiel 47:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: [which being] brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. Ver. 8....
Ezekiel 47:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Then said he, These waters issue toward the east country These waters are described as taking their course along the plain, or champaign country, (for that is the sense of the word here rendered d...
Ezekiel 47:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Vision of the Holy Waters. B. C. 574. 1 Afterward he brought me again unto the door...
Ezekiel 47:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Then said he: see Ezekiel 47:6 . The east country; some read it as a proper name, and so render it, they did run toward Galilee in the east, and the Hebrew bears it indeed, as to the sound of...
Ezekiel 47:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Chapter Ezekiel 47:1-12 The Rivers of Living Water. The first twelve verses of this chapter deal with the vision of rivers of living water flowing from the temple, beginning as a small streamlet...
Ezekiel 47:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE VISION OF THE HOLY WATERS ISSUING FROM THE TEMPLE. (Chap. 47) EXEGETICAL NOTES.— Ezekiel 47:1 . “The house eastward.” The house is the Temple itself; the waters issued from beneath the south-...
Ezekiel 47:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 47:16 . Hamath, a city commanding the passage of mount Lebanon, and the north-west boundary of the Israelites. 1 Chronicles 13:5 . REFLECTIONS. The jews rejoiced more when they poure...
Ezekiel 47:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

He measured a thousand cubits. Curious things in life This chapter is a chapter of measurement. Everything is meted out, as it were, by so many cubits and inches. The voice is very dogmatic:--“...
Ezekiel 47:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION As the first part of Ezekiel's vision (Ezekiel 40-43.) dealt with the temple, or "house," and the second (Ezekiel 44-47.) with the ritual, or "worship," so the third, which beans with...
Ezekiel 47:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Stream of Living Waters
Ezekiel 47:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 2:19-22 ; Deuteronomy 3:17 ; Deuteronomy 4:49 ; Isaiah 11:6-9 ; Isaiah 35:1 ; Isaiah 35:7 ; Isaiah 41:17-19 ; Isaiah 43:20 ; Isaiah 44:3-5 ; Isaiah 49:9 ; Jeremiah 31:9 ; Joshua 3...
Ezekiel 47:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The sea — The Dead — sea, or lake of Sodom. Shall be healed — The waters of the sea shall be healed, made wholesome. So where the grace of God from his temple and altar flows, it heals the corrupt...

Ezekiel 47:8 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 47:8 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Ezekiel 47:8 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 47:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Ezekiel 47:8 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ezekiel 47:8 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 47:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 47:8 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 47:8 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ezekiel 47:8 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Ezekiel 47:8 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Ezekiel 47:8 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Ezekiel 47:8 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 47:8 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ezekiel 47:8 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ezekiel 47:8 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 47:8 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Ezekiel 47:8 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ezekiel 47:8 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Ezekiel 47:8 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Ezekiel 47:8 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ezekiel 47:8 - The Biblical Illustrator

Ezekiel 47:8 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Ezekiel 47:8 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Ezekiel 47:8 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Ezekiel 47:8 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes