Ezekiel 47:18 BSB — MannaFest

Ezekiel 47:18

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

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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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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Ezekiel (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.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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.

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּפְאַ֣ת	u.fe.'At	and [will be the] side of	H6285 →
קָדִ֡ים	ka.Dim	[the] east	H6921 →
מִבֵּ֣ין	mi.Bein	from between	H996 →
חַוְרָ֣ן	chav.Ran	Hauran	H2362 →
וּמִבֵּין־	u.mi.bein-	and from between	H996 →
דַּמֶּשֶׂק֩	da.me.Sek	Damascus	H1834 →
וּמִבֵּ֨ין	u.mi.Bein	and from between	H996 →
הַגִּלְעָ֜ד	ha.gil.'Ad	<the> Gilead	H1568 →
וּמִבֵּ֨ין	u.mi.Bein	and from between	H996 →
אֶ֤רֶץ	'E.retz	[the] land of	H776 →
יִשְׂרָאֵל֙	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
הַיַּרְדֵּ֔ן	hai.yar.Den	the Jordan	H3383 →
מִגְּב֛וּל	mi.ge.Vul	from [the] border	H1366 →
עַל־	'al-	to	H5921 →
הַיָּ֥ם	hai.Yam	the sea	H3220 →
הַקַּדְמוֹנִ֖י	ha.kad.mo.Ni	<the> eastern	H6931 →
תָּמֹ֑דּוּ	ta.Mo.du	<to> Tamar	H8559 →
וְאֵ֖ת	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
פְּאַ֥ת	pe.'At	[the] side	H6285 →
קָדִֽימָה׃	ka.Di.mah	east -ward	H6921 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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…
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.
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.
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…

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