And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.
Whithersoever the rivers shall come - in Hebrew, 'two rivers.' Hence, Hebrew expositors think that the waters from the temple are to be divided into two branches-the one emptying itself into the eastern or Dead Sea, the other into the western or Mediterranean. So Zechariah 14:8. However, though this probably is covertly implied in the Hebrew dual, the flowing of the waters into the Dead Sea only is expressed. Compare Ezekiel 47:8, "the waters shall be healed," which can apply only to it, not to the Mediterranean; also Ezekiel 47:10, "their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea;" i:e., the Dead Sea, when healed, shall contain fish, as the Mediterranean does.