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**door** = entrance.
**behold** . Figure of speech *Asterismos.* App-6 .
**came down** = were coming down. Compare [Joel 3:18](../../../kjv/joel/3/18) ; and see [Isaiah 12:3](../../../kjv/isaiah/12/3) ; [Isaiah 44:3](../../../kjv/isaiah/44/3) .[Zechariah 14:8](../../../kjv/zechariah/14/8) . [Revelation 22:1](../../../kjv/revelation/22/1) .
**from under** = from beneath. Referring to the perennial source which has supplied the fountain of Gihon. See App-68 .
**right side** : i.e. the south side. Compare [Ezekiel 47:2](../../../kjv/ezekiel/47/2) .

**utter** = is outer.

**man** . Hebrew 'ash. App-14 .
**the line** = a measuring line, Hebrew. *kav* . Only here in Ezekiel. Not the same word as in [Ezekiel 40:3](../../../kjv/ezekiel/40/3) , which is *pathil* .
**cubits.** See App-51 , (1).
**the waters** , &c. = waters [reaching] to the ankle, No Art. Hebrew "of the ankles". Genitive of Relation. App-17 .

**Son of man** . See note on [Ezekiel 2:1](../../../kjv/ezekiel/2/1) .

**trees** . See the Structure above.

**east country** = the eastern Allah i.e. circular border-land. Used of the Jordan in [Joshua 22:11](../../../kjv/joshua/22/11) .
**desert** = plain. Hebrew 'arabah. See [Deuteronomy 3:17](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/3/17) ; [Deuteronomy 4:49](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/4/49) . the sea.
**The sea** = called Salt, or Dead Sea.

**things** = soul. Hebrew. *nephesh* . App-13 .
**moveth** = swarmeth.

**En-gedi.** Now the well-known spring, *Ain Jidy,* on the west shore. The original name was Hazazon-tamar ([2 Chronicles 20:2](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/20/2) ).
**En-eglaim.** Not yet identified. Eusebius places it eight miles south of ' *Ar* of Moab. This would probably be ' *Ain Hajla* , the ancient Beth Hogla.
**the great sea.** The Mediterranean.

**miry places** = swamps.
**marishes** = marshes. Hebrew = pools.

**trees for meat** . Hebrew "trees of meat". Genitive of Relation. App-17 . Compare [Genesis 2:9](../../../kjv/genesis/2/9) .
**consumed** = fail.
**new** = ripe.
**medicine** = healing. The Divine provision for preserving and restoring health in that future day, when this prophecy shall be literally fulfilled. Compare [Revelation 22:2](../../../kjv/revelation/22/2) .

**Thus saith,** &c. See note on [Ezekiel 44:9](../../../kjv/ezekiel/44/9) .
**the Lord GOD** . Hebrew Adonai Jehovah. See note on [Ezekiel 2:4](../../../kjv/ezekiel/2/4) .
**Joseph.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Genesis 48:5-22](../../../kjv/genesis/48/5-22) ). App-92 .
**shall have** , Supply this Ellipsis ( App-6 ), by "shall inherit".

**to give it** , &c. Reference to Pentateuch ([Genesis 12:7](../../../kjv/genesis/12/7) ; [Genesis 12:17](../../../kjv/genesis/12/17) , [Genesis 12:8](../../../kjv/genesis/12/8) ; [Genesis 26:3](../../../kjv/genesis/26/3) ; [Genesis 28:13](../../../kjv/genesis/28/13) ; [Genesis 50:24](../../../kjv/genesis/50/24) ). App-92 .

**coast** = border, or boundary.

**the land of Israel.** One of the three passages in Ezekiel where *'eretz* (land) is used, instead of ' *adamah* (soil), See note on [Ezekiel 27:17](../../../kjv/ezekiel/27/17) ; and op note on [Ezekiel 11:17](../../../kjv/ezekiel/11/17)

**strife.** Hebrew. *Meribah* . Reference to Pentateuch ([Numbers 20:1-13](../../../kjv/numbers/20/1-13) ). Kadesh. Now ' *Ain Kades* .
**river** = torrent.

**strangers** = foreign sojourners.
**children** = sons.

**saith the Lord GOD** = [is] Adonai Jehovah's oracle.

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