Ezekiel 47:16-18

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.
18 “On the east side the boundary will run between Hauran and Damascus, along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel, to the Dead Sea and as far as Tamar.[c] This will be the eastern boundary.

Ezekiel 47:16-18 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 4

  • 1. 2 Samuel 8:8
  • 2. Numbers 13:21; S Jeremiah 49:23; Ezekiel 48:1
  • 3. Ezekiel 48:1
  • 4. S Ezekiel 27:18

Footnotes 3

  • [a]. See Septuagint and 48:1; Hebrew "road to go into Zedad, " 16"Hamath, Berothah" .
  • [b]. Hebrew "Enon," a variant of "Enan"
  • [c]. See Syriac; Hebrew "Israel. You will measure to the Dead Sea."
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