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Ezekiel 47:9

in Ezekiel 47

Wherever the river flows, there will be swarms of living creatures and a great number of fish, because it flows there and makes the waters fresh; so wherever the river flows, everything will flourish.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And it shall come to pass, that every living creature which swarmeth, in every place whither the rivers come, shall live; and there shall be a very great multitude of fish; for these waters are come thither, and the waters of the sea shall be healed, and everything shall live whithersoever the river cometh.

KJV

And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.

This verse in Ezekiel 47

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
The rivers - literally, as in the margin. Perhaps with reference to the circumstance that this “brook or river” is to come into the Dead Sea through the same plain as the Jordan. The one river (Jordan) always flowed, but now, when another river comes in, and “two rivers” flow into the sea, the waters shall be healed.

This site's exposition

These waters issue out toward the east country

on Ezekiel 47:8-9

The river runs down through the desert into the sea, and the sea's own waters are healed by it, so that everything that lives wherever the river comes will live, with a very great multitude of fish. The east country and the sea point toward the Dead Sea, the one body of water east of Jerusalem too salt to sustain life, and the commentators across the tradition read the healing as this river's plain, stated effect on it. Henry notes the repetition, healed and live and live again, as the text's own emphasis rather than the exposition's addition.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Christ came, that we might have life and for that end he sends his gospel. Every thing shall live whither the river comes. The grace of God makes dead sinners alive and living saints lively; everything is made fruitful and flourishing by it.

The words behind it

29 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְהָיָ֣הand it will be

    vehayahH19613559 times

  • כָל־every

    khol-H36055413 times

  • נֶ֣פֶשׁcreature

    nefeshH5315754 times

  • חַיָּ֣ה׀living

    chaiyahH2416498 times

  • אֲֽשֶׁר־which

    ʾasher-H8345497 times

  • יִשְׁרֹ֡ץit swarms

    yishrotzH8317

  • אֶ֣לto

    ʾelH4135510 times

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H36055413 times

  • אֲשֶׁר֩where

    ʾasherH8345497 times

  • יָב֨וֹאit will go

    yavo'H9352568 times

  • שָׁ֤םthere

    shamH8033834 times

  • נַחֲלַ֙יִם֙two rivers

    nachalayimH5158141 times

  • יִֽחְיֶ֔הit will live

    yichyehH2421282 times

  • וְהָיָ֥הand it will be

    vehayahH19613559 times

  • הַדָּגָ֖הthe fish

    hadagahH171015 times

  • רַבָּ֣הmany

    rabahH7227454 times

  • מְאֹ֑דvery

    meodH3966300 times

  • כִּי֩for

    kiH35884482 times

  • בָ֨אוּthey have gone

    vauH9352568 times

  • שָׁ֜מָּהthere towards

    shamahH8033834 times

  • הַמַּ֣יִםthe waters

    hamayimH4325581 times

  • הָאֵ֗לֶּה<the> these

    haelehH428746 times

  • וְיֵרָֽפְאוּ֙so they may be healed

    veyerafeuH749567 times

  • וָחָ֔יand it will live

    vachaiH2421282 times

  • כֹּ֛לevery

    kolH36055413 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־where

    ʾasher-H8345497 times

  • יָ֥בוֹאit will go

    yavo'H9352568 times

  • שָׁ֖מָּהthere towards

    shamahH8033834 times

  • הַנָּֽחַל׃the river

    hanachalH5158141 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    John 4:14

    But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”

    it leads to

    • John 7:38–39

      Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”

    • John 6:35

      Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.

  • Through

    Isaiah 55:1

    “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!

    it leads to

    • John 7:37–38

      On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

    • Revelation 21:6

      And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.

    • Revelation 22:17

      The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.

  • Through

    John 6:63

    The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.

    it leads to

    • Galatians 5:25

      Since we live by the Spirit, let us walk in step with the Spirit.

    • Hebrews 4:12

      For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

    • Psalms 119:93

      I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have revived me.

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.