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Ezekiel 48:4

in Ezekiel 48

Manasseh will have one portion bordering the territory of Naphtali from east to west.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, Manasseh, one portion.

KJV

And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Manasseh.

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This verse in Ezekiel 48

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

the names of the tribes

on Ezekiel 48:1-7

Seven tribes receive parallel strips, beginning “At the northern frontier” with Dan and ending with Judah, whose portion borders the holy portion. In Joshua the tribes received land by lot within borders shaped by rivers and hills. Here the portions are straight bands around a fixed center.

This site's exposition

Manasseh will have one portion

Manasseh had held two territories, half east of the Jordan and half west of it, as Joshua 13:29 to 31 and 17:1 to 13 record. Here the whole tribe receives one strip west of the Jordan. The divided tribe is made whole.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

proposed

(Chapter 48, verses 1 onwards) And these are the names of the tribes: starting from the northern borders, near the path of Ethalon that goes to Emath, Atrium, Enon, the boundary of Damascus to the north of Emath, and it will have the eastern boundary, the sea. Dan is one tribe. And from the boundary of Dan to the eastern boundary, Asher is one tribe. And beyond the boundary of Asher to the eastern boundary, Nephthali is one tribe. And beyond the boundary of Nephthali to the eastern boundary, Manasseh is one tribe.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Manasseh. Just in like manner, next to Naphtali lay the tribe of Manasseh, and the portion of land appointed for that tribe; even such Christians who "forget" the things that are behind, and reach to those that are before; forget their former companions, their own people, and father's house, their carnal lusts and pleasures, and their own works of righteousness, and follow after Christ and his righteousness.

The words behind it

10 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.

  • וְעַ֣ל׀and at

    vealH5921 →5755 times

  • גְּב֣וּל[the] border of

    gevulH1366 →240 times

  • נַפְתָּלִ֗יNaphtali

    naftaliH5321 →51 times

  • מִפְּאַ֥תfrom [the] side of

    mipeatH6285 →86 times

  • קָדִ֛מָהeast -ward

    kadimahH6921 →69 times

  • עַד־to

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • פְּאַת־[the] side of

    peat-H6285 →86 times

  • יָ֖מָּהwest -ward

    yamahH3220 →396 times

  • מְנַשֶּׁ֥הManasseh

    menashehH4519 →

  • אֶחָֽד׃one [portion]

    ʾechadH259 →971 times

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

Related verses

6 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Joshua 17:1–11Now this was the allotment for the tribe of Manasseh as Joseph’s firstborn son, namely for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh and father of the Gileadites, who had received Gilead and Bashan because Machir was a man of war.4 worksJoshua 13:29–31This is what Moses had given to the clans of the half-tribe of Manasseh, that is, to half the tribe of the descendants of Manasseh:3 worksGenesis 30:22–24Then God remembered Rachel. He listened to her and opened her womb,2 worksGenesis 41:51Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”2 worksGenesis 48:14–20But Israel stretched out his right hand and put it on the head of Ephraim, the younger; and crossing his hands, he put his left on Manasseh’s head, although Manasseh was the firstborn.2 worksGenesis 48:5And now your two sons born to you in Egypt before I came to you here shall be reckoned as mine; Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine, just as Reuben and Simeon are mine.2 works

The walk

5 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

    Genesis 41:51

    Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father’s household.”

    it leads to

    • Psalms 30:5

      For His anger is fleeting, but His favor lasts a lifetime. Weeping may stay the night, but joy comes in the morning.

    • Proverbs 31:7

      Let him drink and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.

    • Genesis 41:30

      but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in the land of Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will devastate the land.

    • Psalms 30:11

      You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,

    • Deuteronomy 33:17

      His majesty is like a firstborn bull, and his horns are like those of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even to the ends of the earth. Such are the…

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Ezekiel’s Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.

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