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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Ezekiel 47:13 - 47:13
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The redivision of the land: the boundaries. The latter are substantially the same as those given by Moses in Num 34:1-29; they here begin with the north, but in Numbers they begin with the south (Num 34:3). It is only Canaan proper, exclusive of the possession of the two and a half tribes beyond Jordan, that is here divided.
Joseph ... two portions - according to the original promise of Jacob (Gen 48:5, Gen 48:22). Joseph’s sons were given the birthright forfeited by Reuben, the first-born (1Ch 5:1). Therefore the former is here put first. His two sons having distinct portions make up the whole number twelve portions, as he had just before specified “twelve tribes of Israel”; for Levi had no separate inheritance, so that he is not reckoned in the twelve.