Ezekiel 47:18
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“On the east side the border will run between Hauran and Damascus, along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel, to the Eastern Sea and as far as Tamar. This will be the eastern boundary.”
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“On the east side the border will run between Hauran and Damascus, along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel, to the Eastern Sea and as far as Tamar. This will be the eastern boundary.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And the east side, between Hauran and Damascus and Gilead, and the land of Israel, shall be the Jordan; from the north border, unto the east sea shall ye measure. This is the east side.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`And the east quarter <FI>is<Fi> from between Havran, and Damascus, and Gilead, and the land of Israel, <FI>to<Fi> the Jordan; from the border over-against the eastern sea ye measure: and <FI>this is<Fi> the east quarter.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezekiel 47:18 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 13:10And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
- Genesis 31:23So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.
- Genesis 31:47Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.
- Numbers 32:1Now the Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, and they saw that the region was suitable for livestock.
- Judges 10:8who that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on the other side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.
- Job 40:23Though the river rages, Behemoth is unafraid; he remains secure, though the Jordan surges to his mouth.
- Joel 2:20The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Eastern Sea, and its rear guard into the Western Sea. And its stench will rise; its foul odor will ascend. For He has done great things.
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