Ezekiel 47:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the riversc shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh. ”

• Ezekiel 47:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The rivers - literally, as in the margin. Perhaps with reference to the circumstance that this “brook or river” is to come into the Dead Sea through the same plain as the Jordan. The one river (J...

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And it shall come to pass, [that] every thing that liveth, which moveth, wherever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come...

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  things . soul. Hebrew. nephesh . App-13. moveth . swarmeth.

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall...

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And it shall come to pass— As no fish can live in the Dead Sea, so, on the contrary, the waters which flow from the fountain of salvation shall give life to all who drink of them. See Exodus 7:1...

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall...

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  The rivers. — According to the pointing of the Hebrew text this is the two rivers, as is expressed in the margin. This peculiar form has occasioned some perplexity, especially because in the visi...

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And it shall come to pass that everything that liveth, which moveth ,.... That is, every living man; everyone that lives naturally or corporeally, that lives, moves, and has his being in God, as all...

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And it shall come to pass, [that] every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall...

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Vision of the Holy Waters. B. C. 574.       1 Afterward he brought me again unto the door...

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  That liveth; as fish, so this universal is to be limited. Which moveth in the waters; so in Genesis 1:20 this kind of living creatures are described. The rivers shall come; these rivers flow:...

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - 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-...

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Ezekiel 47:9 We take the holy waters mentioned in the text to be the emblems of that wondrous scheme of mercy, perfected by the atonement of Christ, made vital by the Ever-present Spirit, and adap...

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - 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:--“...

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - 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...

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Stream of Living Waters

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 15:45 ; Acts 2:41 ; Acts 2:47 ; Acts 21:20 ; Acts 4:4 ; Acts 5:14 ; Acts 6:7 ; Ephesians 2:1-5 ; Exodus 15:26 ; Isaiah 30:26 ; Isaiah 49:12 ; Isaiah 60:3-10 ; John 11:25 ;...

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• Ezekiel 47:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Shall live — Be preserved alive, and thrive, whereas no fish can live in the Dead — sea. For they — The poisonous waters of the Dead — sea shall be made wholesome for fish. Shall live — Thrive, and...

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