All the offering shall be a square of twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand. You shall offer it as a holy offering, with the possession of the city.
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All the offering shall be a square of twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand. You shall offer it as a holy offering, with the possession of the city.
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All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.
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All the offering shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand; ye shall set apart the holy offering foursquare, with the possession of the city.
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Passages linked to Ezekiel 48:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Hebrews 12:17 For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.
- Revelation 21:16 The city is square, and its length is as great as its width. He measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand twelve stadia. Its length, width, and height are equal.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Every way it shall be five and twenty thousand.
Every way it shall be five and twenty thousand.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 48:20 All the oblation [shall be] five and…
Eze 48:20 All the oblation [shall be] five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the possession of the city.
Ver. 20. Ye shall offer the holy oblation four square.] See on Eze 48:13. All our dealings must be square, or else we are not of the holy portion, of the new Jerusalem. {Rev 21:16}
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Having particularly measured out ten thousand for the priests,…
Having particularly measured out ten thousand for the priests, and ten thousand for the Levites, and five thousand for the city broadways, these make in all twenty-five thousand; and the length of each the same, twenty-five thousand; here is evidently a perfect equilateral square, whose sides are twenty-five thousand each. With the possession of the city; the land assigned for the city, being added to that of the priests and Levites, makes their twice ten thousand to amount to twenty-five thousand broad.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And by the border of Issachar, from the east…
And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun a portion. In like manner, next to Issachar's inheritance, and bordering on it, shall be Zebulun's; who shall be no more a haven for ships, having a different situation and allotment; and may describe such Christians as dwell in Christ, and he in them.
And by the border of Issachar, from the east side unto the west side, Zebulun a portion. In like manner, next to Issachar's inheritance, and bordering on it, shall be Zebulun's; who shall be no more a haven for ships, having a different situation and allotment; and may describe such Christians as dwell in Christ, and he in them.
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Ezekiel 48:27
eze 48:27
eze 48:27
eze 48:27And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad a portion. The last of the tribes; a "troop" of overcomers, who are more than conquerors over all their enemies through Christ: all Christians shall have their part and portion in the church below, and in all the privileges and immunities of it; and in the church above, in all the glories and blessedness thereof.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The possession - The land assigned for the city.
The possession - The land assigned for the city.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The holy ... with ... - Or, “a fourth…
The holy ... with ... - Or, “a fourth part as the holy oblation, for” etc.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain City, where the Levites and their servants, artisans, &c.,…
City, where the Levites and their servants, artisans, &c., dwelt. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 20-22. The entire reservation including the city constituted a…
20-22. The entire reservation including the city constituted a square twenty-five thousand by twenty-five thousand, and on the east side of this sacred domain, protecting it on the east and west, were the sections assigned to the prince, extending to the Jordan on the one side and the Mediterranean on the other. (See chart, page 235.) This domain, which is “over against the portions” (that is, the portions assigned to Judah and Benjamin), “shall be for the prince: and the holy oblation and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof” (Eze_48:21). Everything lying between the border of Judah and Benjamin east and west from this central square (wherein lie the city and the Levitical possessions) shall be for the prince (Eze_48:22).
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 20. The verse means that the holy oblation when…
20. The verse means that the holy oblation when the possession of the city is included forms a square of 25,000 by 25,000.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain All the oblation, the whole terumah, must in this…
All the oblation, the whole terumah, must in this verse include the three portions already marked out for the priests, the Levites, and the city. Added together, they should form a square of five and twenty thousand reeds. Hence it is added in the second clause, Ye shall offer the holy oblation four square, with the possession of the city. Hitzig, Kliefoth, and Keil translate, "To a fourth part shall ye lift off the holy terumah for a possession of the city," as if the sense were that the area of the city possession should be a fourth part of the area of the whole tern-mall. That 5000 of breadth is a fourth part of 20, 000 of breadth may be admitted; but that the city portion was not in area a fourth of the other two, a little arithmetic will show the area of the whole terumah being 25, 000 25, 000 reeds = 625, 000, 000 square reeds, and that of the city possession being 5000 25, 000 reeds = 125, 000, 000 square reeds. Hence the Authorized and Revised Versions are probably correct in taking tyiybir, "a fourth part, (see Exo_29:40) as equivalent to Wbr (Eze_43:16) tetragwnon (LXX).
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