Ezekiel 47:15-17. This shall be the border toward the north The northern border of the land was to begin from the west point, on which side lay the Mediterranean sea, and to go on northward toward Hethlon, a place between Tyre and Damascus, and so forward to Zedad, mentioned Numbers 34:8, Hamath, and other places here mentioned in these verses. read more
Ezekiel 47:18. And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran The city Aurana, and the district Auranitis, the north-east limit of the Holy Land. Damascus lay more northerly than Hauran, but the country called Auranitis might reach near it. Gilead is well known to have been a long tract of land, which was extended to the country of Sihon king of the Amorites. From the land of Israel by Jordan From the northern limits of the land of Israel near Cesarea Philippi, or Dan, where the river... read more
Boundaries of the land (47:13-23)In restored Israel the land was to be divided equally among the nation’s twelve tribes. Levi had no tribal allotment, but Joseph, who received the firstborn’s blessing, had two, Ephraim and Manasseh (13-14; cf. Genesis 48:5; 1 Chronicles 5:1; 1 Chronicles 5:1).The overall boundaries of the land are given. The northern boundary went from a point near Tyre on the coast to the Jordan headwaters. The eastern boundary followed the Jordan to the southern end of the... read more
coast = border, or boundary. read more
the land of Israel. One of the three passages in Ezekiel where 'eretz (land) is used, instead of ' adamah (soil), See note on Ezekiel 27:17 ; and op note on Ezekiel 11:17 read more
Ezekiel 47:15. Great sea— Mediterranean sea. read more
Ezekiel 47:17. And the north, northward, &c.— And Zaphon to the north, and Hamath the border. Houbigant. read more
Ezekiel 47:18. Unto the east sea, &c.— Unto the Dead Sea on the east. Ezekiel 47:22. And to the strangers] Neither under Joshua, nor under Zerubbabel, were the Jews allowed to give strangers a part of their inheritance with them; this therefore can only be understood as a prediction of that which happened under the Lord Jesus Christ, when strangers were admitted into the heritage of Israel, and put in possession of the true land of promise, without distinction of Jew or Gentile; for there... read more
15. Zedad—on the north boundary of Canaan. read more
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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Ezekiel 47:18
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. Hence, the tribes, formerly on the east of the Jordan, have here allotments in... read more