Ezekiel 47:7

Now when I returned, behold, there were at the banks of the stream very many trees, on the one side and on the other.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.

In Context

6And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen this: Then did he lead me, and caused me to return to the bank of the stream.

8Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the eastern district, and go down into the plain, and fall into the sea, [the waters] being carried forth into the sea, so that the waters shall be healed.

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Cross References

Genesis 2:9And the Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

2 Kings 2:13And he lifted up the mantle of Elijah that had fallen from him, and went back, and stood by the border of the Jordan;

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 47:2-13

The Vision of the Holy Waters. ( b. c. 574.) 1 Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar. 2 Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters… Read the whole commentary →

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