In his first coming he observed no trees, and no mention is made of any, but it seems he found them on his return: though they do not really so soon grow, they might be visionally there. At the bank of the river, where usually, for delight and ornament, and for profit too, men plant trees. Very many trees; the kinds are not mentioned, though (he excellency of them is commended, Ezekiel 47:12, but the multitude of them is mentioned, and the growth intimated, in the Hebrew; and perhaps the uniformity of them, which seemed as of one tree, for so it is, the singular number, in the Hebrew. On the one side and on the other; on the north and south sides, for the river ran from east to west.
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Ezekiel 47:7
7 Now when I had returned, behold, at the banka of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.