Ezekiel 47:18

“And the east side ye shall measure Hauran, &c.] The line of the eastern border of the land shall begin at Hauran or Auranitis; (see <264716> Ezekiel 47:16), which lay to the southf860 of Damascus: and it follows, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea; and so from Damascus, the metropolis of Syria; and likewise from Gilead, a mountain and country beyond Jordan; and also from that part of the land of Israel near to Jordan; and so from the northern border to the east sea, or sea of Galilee or Tiberias: and this is the east side: of the land, or the eastern border of it, reaching from Hauran to the lake of Gennesaret, or to the Salt sea, the sea of Sodom; (see…”

“east sea--the Dead Sea. The border is to go down straight to it by the valley of the Jordan. So Num 34:11-12.”

“The eastern boundary is to commence by separating off the territory of Damascus and Hauran, and then to follow the line of the Jordan to the Dead Sea. Further, the land occupied by the trans-Jordanic tribes was also to be separated off from the land of Israel. The trans-Jordanic tribes in fact occupied their ground (in Joshua’s allotment) by sufferance. This did not belong to Canaan proper, the land of promise. Hence, the tribes, formerly on the east of the Jordan, have here allotments in Canaan, though “the oblation” Ezekiel 45:1 extends to a considerable distance beyond the Jordan (see Plan, Ezekiel 48:0). The whole arrangement being ideal and symbolic, the vision here, as in the case of…”

“The east sea - The Dead - sea, which lay on the east of Jerusalem. Thus a line drawn from Damascus through Auranitis, Gilead, the land of Israel beyond Jordan to the east - sea, made the eastern frontier. Ezekiel 47:19”

“from: Heb. from between from Gilead: Gen 31:23, Gen 31:47, Galead, Num 32:1; Jdg 10:8 Jordan: Gen 13:10; Job 40:23 Ezekiel 47:19”