It is most holy, and therefore no price should be offered for it, nor any price set upon it, nor may they pass away any on pretence of getting greater and more particularly serviceable to them and their employment, and so for convenience part with God’s inheritance; this is forbidden: this is holy, as the first-fruits were under the law, Leviticus 25:23,Leviticus 25:24; 1 Kings 21:4. read more
In the breadth over against; or running along by the side. The five and twenty thousand; assigned to the Levites. A profane place; a common, not consecrated place, in which the city should be built, a place for all services, as men shall need. Now as that is counted holy which is set apart only for the service of God, so that common or profane that is for common uses. For dwelling; houses within the walls. For suburbs; streets and dwellings, or gardens without the walls. The city; Jerusalem. In... read more
The measures; the extent and proportions of the ground for the city; a square of four thousand five hundred shall be taken out of the middle of the twenty-five thousand for the area or ground-plot of the city. So it shall be an equilateral square, every side exactly the same, north, south, east, and west, four thousand five hundred apiece, by which measures the whole contents are visible, eighteen thousand cubits, not reeds. read more
Here are the dimensions of the suburbs, which added to those of the city thus, two hundred and fifty added to the four thousand five hundred on the north side, and two hundred and fifty added to the four thousand five hundred on the south side, make five thousand; so on the east add two hundred and fifty to four thousand five hundred, and then add two hundred and fifty to the four thousand five hundred on the west, it makes up an equilateral square five thousand on each side. read more
The residue in length, which remains on each side of the five thousand cubits square area, will be ten thousand on the east, and ten thousand on the west. Shall be over against the oblation; lie parallel and even with the south side of the Levites’ portion both on east and west. The increase thereof; the product, revenues of this land. For food; the maintenance, both salary and allowances of bread and wine. Unto them that serve the city; for the city officers, so that they may live by the city,... read more
Either this service is a burden, and if so, it is fit all should bear their part in it; or it is a privilege and advantage, and then it is as fit the advantage should be equally given to all the tribes; all tribes shall be capable of the advantage, and liable to the burden. read more
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... read more
The residue of the land, which is a great portion, for it is the remainder of twelve and a half taken out of sixty; so that the remainder will be forty-seven and a half. On the one side; suppose it be the cast side, there will be twenty-three and three quarters. On the other side; on the west just as much, twenty-three and three quarters. Of the possession of the city; the residue of that which is on each side, east and west of the five thousand square area. Over against the five and twenty... read more
That we may clearly understand this, we must remember that the portion of Judah was laid from west to east next to the holy portion, and the portion of Benjamin is in Ezekiel 48:23 laid likewise from west to east next to the possession of the city. So that on each side the extent of Judah and Benjamin run out to twenty-three miles and three quarters farther than the holy portion and possession of the city did; and all the land contained between the borders of Judah and Benjamin were the... read more
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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Ezekiel 48:13
See this verse explained Ezekiel 45:5. The Levites’ portion ran parallel with the priest’s, whose northern limits were next to the southern limits of the Levites. read more