Skip to content

Passage Research

Ezekiel 47 — Sermon Preparation

Below is a research summary for Ezekiel 47, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.

23
verses
366 / 139
Hebrew words / lemmas
4
classic sermon excerpts
4
preachers & commentators

Ezekiel 47 in the Hebrew

Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Count Glosses
מַיִם mayim H4325 15 water, juice
גְּבוּל gᵉbûwl H1366 10 cord, twisted
יָם yâm H3220 10 sea, large body of water
פֵּאָה pêʼâh H6285 8 mouth, direction
נַחַל nachal H5158 8 stream, torrent
קָדִים qâdîym H6921 6 fore, East
מָדַד mâdad H4058 5 stretch, measure

How preachers through history handled this text

4 public-domain excerpts on Ezekiel 47, from the church fathers to the Puritans.

Matthew Henry 1 Alexander MacLaren 1 Spurgeon 1 John Wesley 1

“THE RIVER OF LIFE Waters issued out from under the threshold of the house . . .'--EZEKIEL xlvii. 1. Unlike most great cities, Jerusalem was not situated on a great river. True, the inconsiderable waters of Siloam--which flow softly' because they were so inconsiderable--rose from a crevice in the Temple rock, and beneath that rock stretched the valley of the Kedron, dry and bleached in the summer, and a rainy torrent during the rainy seasons; but that was all. …”

— Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture: Ezekiel, Daniel and the Minor, on Ezekiel 47:1–30 (Public Domain)

Places in the text

Based on ancient-geography data

  • Eneglaim — Ezek 47:10
  • Engedi — Ezek 47:10
  • Great Sea — Ezek 47:10
  • Salt Sea — Ezek 47:10
  • Hethlon — Ezek 47:15

Need the complete sermon prep report on this passage?

Greek exegesis, historical background, current scholarship, sermon outlines, illustrations — a complete PDF report on Ezekiel 47, delivered in 45 minutes.