Ezekiel 48:4-5

48:4 Next to the border of Naphtali from the east side to the west, Manasseh will have one portion. 48:5 Next to the border of Manasseh from the east side to the west, Ephraim will have one portion.

Ezekiel 48:27

48:27 Next to the border of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side, Gad will have one portion.

Ezekiel 8:16

8:16 Then he brought me to the inner court of the Lord’s house. Right there at the entrance to the Lord’s temple, between the porch and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the Lord’s temple, facing east – they were worshiping the sun toward the east!


tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) indicates becoming aware of something.

sn The priests prayed to God between the porch and the altar on fast days (Joel 2:17). This is the location where Zechariah was murdered (Matt 23:35).

tc The LXX reads “twenty” instead of twenty-five, perhaps because of the association of the number twenty with the Mesopotamian sun god Shamash.

sn The temple faced east.

tn Or “the sun god.”