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Ezekiel 47:18

in Ezekiel 47

On the east side the border will run between Hauran and Damascus, along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel, to the Eastern Sea and as far as Tamar. This will be the eastern boundary.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the north border, unto the east sea shall ye measure. This is the east side.

KJV

And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.

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This verse in Ezekiel 47

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel · Written before 420.

(Verse 18) Furthermore, the eastern region stretches from the middle of Auran, and from the middle of Damascus, and from the middle of Gilead, and from the middle of the land of Israel. The Jordan River divides it, extending to the eastern sea. In the Book of Numbers, it is written as follows: From there, the boundaries extend opposite the eastern region, from the town of Enan, also known as Aser Enon, to Sephama. From Sephama, the boundaries go down to Rebla, opposite the spring.

This site's exposition

the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad

on Ezekiel 47:15-20

The border is traced in a single circuit, north through Hethlon, Zedad, Hamath and Damascus, east along Hauran and Gilead to the Jordan and the east sea, south from Tamar to the waters of strife at Kadesh, and west along the great sea itself. Keil reads the boundary as drawn wider than the land Israel ever actually possessed under David or Solomon, a promise stated at its fullest extent rather than a record of past borders. The positions on how literally the boundary is meant to be read stand with the same two readings already named for the temple's own measurements.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice
The eastern boundary is to commence by separating off the territory of Damascus and Hauran, and then to follow the line of the Jordan to the Dead Sea. Further, the land occupied by the trans-Jordanic tribes was also to be separated off from the land of Israel. The trans-Jordanic tribes in fact occupied their ground (in Joshua’s allotment) by sufferance. This did not belong to Canaan proper, the land of promise.

The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וּפְאַ֣תand [will be the] side of

    ufeatH6285 →86 times

  • קָדִ֡ים[the] east

    kadimH6921 →69 times

  • מִבֵּ֣יןfrom between

    mibeinH996 →407 times

  • חַוְרָ֣ןHauran

    chavranH2362 →

  • וּמִבֵּין־and from between

    umibein-H996 →407 times

  • דַּמֶּשֶׂק֩Damascus

    damesekH1834 →45 times

  • וּמִבֵּ֨יןand from between

    umibeinH996 →407 times

  • הַגִּלְעָ֜ד<the> Gilead

    hagiladH1568 →

  • וּמִבֵּ֨יןand from between

    umibeinH996 →407 times

  • אֶ֤רֶץ[the] land of

    ʾeretzH776 →2504 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵל֙Israel

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • הַיַּרְדֵּ֔ןthe Jordan

    haiyardenH3383 →

  • מִגְּב֛וּלfrom [the] border

    migevulH1366 →240 times

  • עַל־to

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • הַיָּ֥םthe sea

    haiyamH3220 →396 times

  • הַקַּדְמוֹנִ֖י<the> eastern

    hakadmoniH6931 →10 times

  • תָּמֹ֑דּוּ<to> Tamar

    tamoduH8559 →25 times

  • וְאֵ֖תand <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • פְּאַ֥ת[the] side

    peatH6285 →86 times

  • קָדִֽימָה׃east -ward

    kadimahH6921 →69 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

9 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Genesis 13:10And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)3 worksJoel 2:20The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Eastern Sea, and its rear guard into the Western Sea. And its stench will rise; its foul odor will ascend. For He has done great things.3 worksJob 40:23Though the river rages, Behemoth is unafraid; he remains secure, though the Jordan surges to his mouth.2 worksJudges 10:8who that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on the other side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.2 worksGenesis 31:47Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.2 worksGenesis 31:23So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.2 works
The other 3 cross-references, with their words ▾
Numbers 32:1Now the Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, and they saw that the region was suitable for livestock.2 worksEzekiel 39:11And on that day I will give Gog a burial place in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Sea. It will block those who travel through, because Gog and all his hordes will be buried there. So it will be called the Valley of Hamon-gog.2 worksJoshua 15:2Their southern border started at the bay on the southern tip of the Salt Sea,2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 13:10

    And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 34:3

      the Negev, and the region from the Valley of Jericho (the City of Palms) all the way to Zoar.

    • Isaiah 51:3

      For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness…

    • Genesis 14:8

      Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) marched out and arrayed themselves for battle in the…

    • Genesis 2:8–10

      And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.

    • Ezekiel 28:13

      You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in…

  • Through

    Genesis 31:23

    So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.

    it leads to

    • Exodus 2:13

      The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?”

    • Exodus 2:11

      One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

  • Through

    Job 40:23

    Though the river rages, Behemoth is unafraid; he remains secure, though the Jordan surges to his mouth.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 13:10

      And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was…

Where this verse is studied

About Ezekiel

The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Ezekiel — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Ezekiel: the study guide →Read Ezekiel 47 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Ezekiel; Jerome, Commentary on Ezekiel and Patrick Fairbairn, An Exposition of Ezekiel.

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