Ezekiel 47:18

18 The east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the [north] border to the east sea shall you measure. This is the east side.

Ezekiel 47:18 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 47:18

And the east side ye shall measure Hauran
The line of the eastern border of the land shall begin at Hauran or Auranitis; see ( Ezekiel 47:16 ) , which lay to the south F19 of Damascus: and it follows, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east
sea;
and so from Damascus, the metropolis of Syria; and likewise from Gilead, a mountain and country beyond Jordan; and also from that part of the land of Israel near to Jordan; and so from the northern border to the east sea, or sea of Galilee or Tiberias: and this is the east side:
of the land, or the eastern border of it, reaching from Hauran to the lake of Gennesaret, or to the Salt sea, the sea of Sodom; see ( Numbers 34:10-12 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

F19 Vid. Reland Palestina Illustrata, l. 1. c. 22. p. 107.

Ezekiel 47:18 In-Context

16 Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.
17 The border from the sea, shall be Hazar-enon at the border of Damascus; and on the north northward is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.
18 The east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the [north] border to the east sea shall you measure. This is the east side.
19 The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth-kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea. This is the south side southward.
20 The west side shall be the great sea, from the [south] border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.
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