Ezekiel 47:18

The eastern border.

In Ezekiel 47:16 the eastmost point of the north border was said to be Hazar Enon on the border of Hauran. The E. boundary will therefore start from this point. The verse may read: "and the east side: from between Hauran and Damascus, between Gilead and the land of Israel shall be the Jordan, from the (north) boundary to the eastern sea, even unto Tamar; this is the east side." The line starts from Hazar Enon, a place lying where Damascus and Hauran adjoin one another (Ezekiel 47:16). Instead of Hazar Enon, however, the point of contact between Damascus and Hauran is named as the starting-point (for the last two umibbenread benand uben). From this point the line runs south; its course is the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel. The order Hauran, Damascus, Gilead is entirely incomprehensible (for Hauran lay S. of Damascus) if R.V. be followed. The phrase "ye shall measure" is no doubt a misspelling for "unto Tamar" (LXX. Syr., dfor r), from which the southern border starts in Ezekiel 47:19. Tamar probably lay S. of the Dead Sea. The Onomasticon (Ed. Lagarde, p. 85) says: one day's journey from Mampsis as you go to Aelia (?Elath) from Hebron. Robinson identifies Mampsis with Malatha, in his view el Milḥ.