The direction of the stream was eastward, towards the region which is desert, and towards the Dead Sea.

the east country lit. circle, or, district, the same word as Galilee (Isaiah 9:1). Cf. Joshua 22:10-11, "the circuits of the Jordan."

unto the desert the Arabah, what is now called the Ghor, the depression of the Jordan valley, the Dead Sea, and southward as far as the gulf of Akaba; Deuteronomy 1:1; Deuteronomy 3:17; Joshua 18:18. The "sea" into which the waters flow is the Dead Sea.

brought forth into the sea The construction is difficult. For "into the sea" LXX. read "the waters." This would necessitate a further change: into the sea, unto the bitterwaters, and the waters, &c.; so Corn. after Syr., putrid waters.

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