Ezekiel 47:17-20
the border from The Holy Land, as here described, extended from about 31 degrees to 35 degrees n lat. and from 34 degrees to 37 degrees e long.; being bounded on the north by a line drawn from the Mediterranean to Hamath; on the east by Damascus, Hauran, Gilead, and the land of Israel east of Jordan, unto the south of the Dead sea; on the south by Tamar and Kadesh, unto the river of Rhinocorura; and on the west by the Mediterranean sea, from the same point northward "till a man came over against Hamath;" and its length from north to south would be about 280 miles, and its breadth about 150 miles. The ten tribes, as well as Judah and Benjamin, were to be admitted to a full share in this inheritance, which seems to imply, that the future restoration to the promised land is predicted; while the admission of strangers who sojourned in the land to a share in the inheritance, as if native Israelites, plainly intimates the calling of the Gentiles into the church, and their joint inheritance of its privileges, and of the heavenly felicity. Hazarenan Ezek 48:1; Num 34:9 from Heb. from between from Gilead Gen 31:23, Gen 31:47, Galead, Num 32:1; Judg 10:8 Jordan Gen 13:10; Job 40:23 Tamar Ezek 48:28 strife or, Meribah, Num 20:13; Deut 32:51, Deut 33:8; Ps 81:7 river or, valley, Josh 12:3 southward or, toward Teman
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