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Ezekiel 47:7
When I arrived, I saw a great number of trees along both banks of the river.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The Lord addresses the prophet Ezekiel immediately after leading him back to the riverbank in a visionary tour of the temple's water source.
The words — בְּשׁוּבֵ֕נִי (be./shu.Ve./ni) literally means "when I had returned," and עֵ֖ץ רַ֣ב מְאֹ֑ד (etz rav me'od) translates to "very many trees."
The thread — The vision of abundant trees along a life-giving river echoes the planting in Genesis 2:9 and anticipates the fruit-bearing trees lining the river in Ezekiel 47:12 and Revelation 22:2.
Why it lands — The text plainly records the prophet's observation of dense vegetation sustained by the temple's outflow, establishing a physical baseline for the subsequent promise of unending fruit and healing.
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The Hebrew words
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.
Cross-references
- Ezekiel 47:12 Along both banks of the river, fruit trees of all kinds will grow. Their leaves will not wither, and their fruit will not fail. Each month they will bear fruit, because the water from the sanctuary flows to them. Their fruit will be used for food and their leaves for healing.”
- Revelation 22:2 down the middle of the main street of the city. On either side of the river stood a tree of life, bearing twelve kinds of fruit and yielding a fresh crop for each month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.
- Genesis 2:9 Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
- 1 Kings 9:26 King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.
- 2 Kings 2:13 Elisha also picked up the cloak that had fallen from Elijah, and he went back and stood on the bank of the Jordan.