Ezekiel 47:16

“Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, &c.] The line of the northern border should be drawn on by Hamath, the same with Antiochia in Syria, since called Epiphania, as Jerom observes, from Antiochus Epiphanies; and go on by Berothah, a city of Hadadezer king of Zobah, (<100808>2 Samuel 8:8), the same with the Barothena of Ptolemyf858, placed by him in Syria; and from thence the line would be carried on to Sibraim, a city in Arabia Deserta: which is between the border of Damascus; the chief city in Syria: and the border of Hamath; before mentioned. Calmetf859 imagines it to be that which Ishmael Abulfeda calls Hovvarin; which he says is a village of the country of Ems or Hamath, to the southeast of the…”

“Hamath--As Israel was a separate people, so their land was a separate land. On no scene could the sacred history have been so well transacted as on it. On the east was the sandy desert. On the north and south, mountains. On the west, an inhospitable sea-shore. But it was not always to be a separate land. Between the parallel ranges of Lebanon is the long valley of El-Bekaa, leading to "the entering in of Hamath" on the Orontes, in the Syrian frontier. Roman roads, and the harbor made at CÃ&brvbrsarea, opened out doors through which the Gospel should go from it to all lands. So in the last days, when all shall flock to Jerusalem as the religious center of the world. Berothah--a city in Syria…”

““Berothah,” probably the same as “Berothai” (marginal reference), lay between Hamath and Damascus, as did “Sibraim.” “Hazar-hatticon” is probably, as in the margin, “the middle Hazar,” to distinguish it from Hazar-enan Ezekiel 47:17. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Hamath: Num 13:21, Num 34:8; Kg1 8:65; Amo 6:14; Zac 9:2 Berothah: Sa2 8:8, Berothai Damascus: Gen 14:15; Ch1 18:5; Act 9:2 Hazarhatticon: or, the middle village Hauran: The district of Auranitis, now Haouran, sw of Damascus. Ezekiel 47:17”