Ezekiel 47:15-17

15 “This is to be the boundary of the land: “On the north side it will run from the Mediterranean Sea by the Hethlon road past Lebo Hamath to Zedad,

16 Berothah^[a] and Sibraim (which lies on the border between Damascus and Hamath), as far as Hazer Hattikon, which is on the border of Hauran.

17 The boundary will extend from the sea to Hazar Enan,^[b] along the northern border of Damascus, with the border of Hamath to the north. This will be the northern boundary.

Ezekiel 47:15-17 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 47

This chapter gives an account of the vision of the holy waters, and of the borders of the holy land, and the division of it to Israelites and strangers. The waters are described by the original and spring of them, Eze 47:1,2, by the progress and increase of them, Eze 47:3-5, by the healing and quickening nature of them, and the places where they were so, and were not, Eze 47:8-11, and by the trees which grew upon the banks of them, Eze 47:6,7,12. The borders of the holy land are fixed, Eze 47:13,14, the northern border, Eze 47:15-17, the eastern border, Eze 47:18, the southern, Eze 47:19, and the western, Eze 47:20, which is to be divided by lot to the tribes of Israel, and the strangers that sojourn among them, Eze 47:21-23.

Cross References

• 1. Numbers 34:2
• 2. 2 Samuel 8:8
• 3. Numbers 13:21; S Jeremiah 49:23; Ezekiel 48:1
• 4. Ezekiel 48:1

Footnotes

• [a]. See Septuagint and 48:1; Hebrew "road to go into Zedad, " 16"Hamath, Berothah" .
• [b]. Hebrew "Enon," a variant of "Enan"