shall divide by lot [heb] cause the land to fall by lot

Ezekiel 47:21 So shall you divide this land to you according to the tribes of Israel.

Ezekiel 48:29 This is the land which you shall divide by lot to the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions...

Numbers 34:13 And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which you shall inherit by lot...

Joshua 13:6 All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians...

Joshua 14:2 By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.

Psalm 16:5,6 The LORD is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: you maintain my lot...

ye shall offer

Ezekiel 45:2-7 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about...

Ezekiel 48:8-23 And by the border of Judah, from the east side to the west side...

Leviticus 25:23 The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine, for you are strangers and sojourners with me.

Proverbs 3:9 Honor the LORD with your substance, and with the first fruits of all your increase:

an holy portion [heb] holiness

Zechariah 14:20,21 In that day shall there be on the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD...

the length That our translators rightly added the word {reeds}, is evident from the length and breadth of the sanctuary being exactly the same as before, (comp. ver

Ezekiel 45:2 Of this there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square round about...

with ch

Ezekiel 42:16-19 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about...

) Estimating the reed at

Ezekiel 3:5 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;

yards, this holy oblation would constitute a square of nearly fifty miles on every side. From the north side a portion or nearly twenty miles in length, and nearly fifty in length, was appointed for the priests; and in the midst of this portion, the area of the sanctuary, about a mile square, to be enclosed by a wall, (ver

Ezekiel 3:1,2 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, eat that you find; eat this roll, and go speak to the house of Israel...

) Next to this, on the south, was the Levites' portion, of the same dimensions as that of the priests' (ver

Ezekiel 3:5 For you are not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;

) and south of this was portion for the city, of the same length as those of the priests and Levites, but only half the width (ver

Ezekiel 3:6 Not to many people of a strange speech and of an hard language, whose words you can not understand. Surely, had I sent you to them...

) These three formed the square of

25,000 reeds, or nearly fifty miles; and that set apart for the prince, the breadth of which is not mentioned, extended in length from north to south, along the east and west sides of the square. As Canaan would not admit of so large a portion for the sanctuary, etc. this was no doubt intended to the intimate the large extent of the church in the glorious times predicted.