Ezekiel 48:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben.

Ezekiel 48:6 —

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Cross-References

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Joshua 13:15-21
And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families. …
Genesis 49:3-4
Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power: …
Genesis 29:32
And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will love me.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-30)

We have here a very short and ready way taken for the dividing of the land among the twelve tribes, not so tedious and so far about as the way that was taken in Joshua’s time; for in the distribution of spiritual and heavenly blessings there is not that danger of murmuring and quarrelling that there is in the participation of the temporal blessings. When God gave to the labourers every one his pen…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. Reuben--doomed formerly for incest and instability “not to excel” (Ge 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 (Jud 5:16).