Guiding Questions: Ezekiel 47

This is part of the Tanakh Yomi Project.

  1. Ezekiel 47:1 indicates that the description of the Temple area is now to concentrate on its inner or outer confines?
  2. Would the description of the various streams and waters indicate that the water and fertility of the land will derive, in the first instance, from the Mount of the House (that is, the Temple)?
  3. Over and above the normal characteristics of “water,” what special quality will these streams have (Ezekiel 47:9)?
  4. What is the location of Eyn Gedi as set forth in Ezekiel 47:10?
  5. Into how many portions does Ezekiel 47:13 confirm that the restored land is to be divided and, in Ezekiel 47:14, how is this related to earlier texts?
  6. Ezekiel 47:15 begins a description of the boundaries of Eretz Yisrael in its “restored” condition; does the area embraced appear to be larger than that in the descriptions as set forth in the Five Books and in Joshua?
  7. As to those strangers/foreigners who are “second generation,” are they to receive any portion of the land (Ezekiel 47:22-23)?

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