King James Version

What Does Ezekiel 46:22 Mean?

In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure. joined: or, made with chimneys corners were: Heb. cornered, etc

Context

20

Then said he unto me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they shall bake the meat offering; that they bear them not out into the utter court, to sanctify the people.

21

Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every corner of the court there was a court. in every: Heb. a court in a corner of a court, and a court in a corner of a court

22

In the four corners of the court there were courts joined of forty cubits long and thirty broad: these four corners were of one measure. joined: or, made with chimneys corners were: Heb. cornered, etc

23

And there was a row of building round about in them, round about them four, and it was made with boiling places under the rows round about.

24

Then said he unto me, These are the places of them that boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice of the people.

Commentary

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
**5. seed of the land--**not a foreign production, but one native in the region; a son of the soil, not a foreigner: Zedekiah, uncle of Jehoiachin, of David's family. **in a fruitful field--**literally, a "field of seed"; that is, fit for propagating and continuing the seed of the royal family. **as a willow--**derived from a Hebrew root, "to overflow," from its fondness for water (Is 44:4). Judea was "a land of brooks of water and fountains" (De 8:7-9; compare Joh 3:23).

Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset, David Brown. Public Domain.

Historical Context

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Theological Significance

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