Ezekiel Chapter 47 Vs. 19

The Boundaries of the Land

Ezekiel 47:19


The southern border of Israel’s millennial kingdom will extend from Tamar as far as the waters of Meribah Kadesh, then along the Wadi of Egypt to the Great Sea. Since “the waters of Meribah Kadesh” were at Kadesh Barnea (cf. Num. 27:14), the southern border will stretch southwestward from Tamar to Kadesh Barnea. From there it will go to the “Wadi of Egypt.” This is probably the Wadi el-Arish (cf. Num. 34:5), not the Nile River. The words “of Egypt,” not in the Hebrew, are supplied as an explanatory addition.