Bible Strands
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.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Ezekiel records God’s vision of the restored land’s boundaries, delivered to the prophet during the temple river vision. The description outlines the eastern border as part of a complete geographic survey of the promised territory.
The words — The Hebrew term קָדִ֡ים (ka.Dim) literally means “the east,” denoting the direction of this specific territorial limit. The repeated preposition מִ/בֵּ֣ין (mi./Bein) establishes the border’s precise function as a dividing line between named regions.
The thread — The eastern boundary’s markers appear in Genesis 13:10 regarding the Jordan plain and Genesis 31:23–47 where Gilead serves as a landmark between Jacob and Laban. These earlier references establish Gilead and the Jordan as recognized geographic divisions in Israel’s ancestral history.
Why it lands — The text demands recognition of God’s precise authority to define and restore the land’s limits. It requires the reader to treat the boundary description as a concrete statement of divine jurisdiction rather than a symbolic metaphor.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- 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 before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
- Genesis 31:23 So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.
- Genesis 31:47 Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.
- Numbers 32:1 Now 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.
- Judges 10:8 who that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and they did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on the other side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.
- Job 40:23 Though the river rages, Behemoth is unafraid; he remains secure, though the Jordan surges to his mouth.