“ And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel. ”
Ezekiel 48:18 Then, that serve - i. e., the cultivators or farmers. Ezekiel 48:19 Of old the city belonged to Benjamin and Judah, and its inhabitants were mainly from these tribes. Now...
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 poin...
And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.
And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and...
The New Israel (Ezekiel 33-48) So long as the Jewish kingdom remained in existence Ezekiel's prophecies (those in Ezekiel 1-24) dealt almost exclusively with the nation's sin, and with the certain...
Out of all the tribes of Israel. — The city itself is no longer, as of old, to belong to any particular tribe, but is to be situated on the common oblation, and its labourers are to be taken alike...
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...
The disposition of the tribes in relation to the sanctuary was then given. On the north of the sacred land Dan, Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephraim, Reuben, and Judah were to find their possessions, a...
Here are directions, very largely given, for the different services of the several tribes, and their importance; of which we cannot now speak particularly. It is on these points, this striking prophe...
And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel. Whether they be civil magistrates, or ministers of the word, they shall be of Israel, and be Israelites indeed; and shal...
And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel. Ver. 19. Shall serve it out of all the tribes, ] i.e., At the common charge, and by a general contribution.
And the residue in length over against [or beside ] the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward and ten thousand westward These two dimensions, of ten thousand in length both...
The Division of the Land. B. C. 574. 1 Now these are the names of the tribes. From the...
Either this service is a burden, and if so, it is fit all should bear their part in it; or it is a privilege and advantage, and then it is as fit the advantage should be equally given to all the trib...
“And the residue in length answerable to the holy Gift-offering shall be ten thousand eastward and ten thousand westward. And it shall be answerable to the holy Gift-offering. And its increase shall...
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...
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 the...
The Lord is there. Ezekiel’s last vision The 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...
EXPOSITION The closing chapter of the prophet's temple-vision treats more particularly of the distribution of the land among the several tribes ( Ezekiel 48:1-26 ), and concludes with a statemen...
The Division of the New Canaan
1 Kings 4:7-23 ; Ezekiel 45:6 ; Nehemiah 11:1-36