Ezekiel 47:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

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 Jordan takes its rise. Unto the east sea That is, the Dead sea, or the lake of Sodom: see Ezekiel 47:8.

Ezekiel 47:18

18 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.