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Selected Verse: Ezekiel 48:6 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Eze 48:6 |
Strong Concordance |
And by the border [01366] of Ephraim [0669], from the east [06921] side [06285] even unto the west [03220] side [06285], a [0259] portion for Reuben [07205]. |
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King James |
And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| Reuben--doomed formerly for incest and instability "not to excel" (Gen 49:4). So no distinguished prophet, priest, or king had come from it. Of it were the notorious Dathan and Abiram, the mutineers. A pastoral and Bedouin character marked it and Gad (Jdg 5:16). |
16 Why abodest [03427] thou among [0996] the sheepfolds [04942], to hear [08085] the bleatings [08292] of the flocks [05739]? For the divisions [06390] of Reuben [07205] there were great [01419] searchings [02714] of heart [03820].
4 Unstable [06349] as water [04325], thou shalt not excel [03498]; because thou wentest up [05927] to thy father's [01] bed [04904]; then defiledst thou [02490] it: he went up [05927] to my couch [03326].