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Ezekiel 47:18

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The east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the [north] border to the east sea shall you measure. This is the east side.

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These places mark the eastern and southern boundaries of the restored land allotted to Israel in Ezekiel’s vision, running from the Hauran and Damascus region southward along the Jordan and Arabah to Tamar and the Brook of Egypt. They portray a definite, God-defined inheritance extending between the Salt Sea and the Great Sea.

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Ezekiel 47:18 mentions Arabah, Brook of Egypt, Damascus, Engedi, Gilead, Great Sea, Hamath, Hauran, Hazar-enan, Jordan, Lebo-hamath, Meribah, Negeb, Salt Sea, Sibraim, Tamar and Zedad.

Arabah · Anastasia Pozdnyakova
Brook of Egypt · اسماء البيك
Damascus · Dosseman
Engedi · Grauesel

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