Ezekiel 48:1-9
the names Exod 1:1-5; Num 1:5-15, Num 13:4-15; Rev 7:4-8 From Ezek 47:15-17; Num 34:7-9 a portion Heb. one portion Dan Gen 30:3-6; Josh 19:40-47; Judg 18:26-29; 2Sam 24:2; 1Kgs 12:28-29; Matt 20:15-16 Asher Gen 30:12-13; Josh 19:24-31 Naphtali Gen 30:7-8; Josh 19:32-39 by the border In this division of the Holy Land, a portion is laid out for each of the twelve tribes directly across the country, from east to west; and deducting the square of 25,000 reeds, or nearly fifty miles on each side, between Judah and Benjamin, for the priests, Levites, city, and temple, with the inheritance of the prince to the east and west (See note on Ezek 45:1), from 280 miles, the length of the country from north to south, there will remain for each tribe a portion of less than twenty miles in width, and 150 in length. This division of the land entirely differs from that which was made in the days of Joshua, in which the tribes were not only differently placed, but confused and inter-mixed; while here distinct lots are assigned to each of the twelve tribes, in a regular mathematical form. Literally such a division never took place. It seems to denote the equality of privileges which subsists among all the tribes of Believers, of whatever nation, and whatever their previous character may have been. Manasseh Gen 30:22-24, Gen 41:51, Gen 48:5, Gen 48:14-20; Josh 13:29-31, Josh 17:1-11 Ephraim Josh 16:1-10, Josh 17:8-10, Josh 17:14-18 Reuben Gen 29:32, Gen 49:3-4; Josh 13:15-21 Judah Gen 29:35; Josh 15:1-63, Josh 19:9 the offering Ezek 45:1-6 the sanctuary Ezek 48:35; Isa 12:6, Isa 33:20-22; Zech 2:11-12; 2Cor 6:16; Eph 2:20-22; Col 2:9; Rev 21:3, Rev 21:22, Rev 22:3
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