Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Ezekiel 47:17
And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And [this is] the north side.
17. The verse repeats and sums up Eze 47:15-16, with special reference to the countries lying on the N. of the northern border of Israel. In Eze 47:17 Hazar Enon is named as the extremity of the Northern boundary, in Eze 47:16 Hazar hattikon (the middle Hazar). The places must be identical, whether hattikon be a misreading or not. LXX. reads Saunan, Cod. Alex. Eunan, and in Eze 48:1, Num 34:9, Enon here is spelled Enan. In Eze 47:16 the place is said to be on the border of Hauran. Eze 47:17 may read: “and so the border shall be from the sea to Hazar Enon on the border of Damascus, and north northwards the border of Hamath: this is the north side” (reading this as Eze 47:20 and possibly with omission of and before “border of Hamath,” words wanting in LXX.). The boundary is first stated generally as going from the sea to Hazar Enan, and then in the contrary direction north, Hamath being the country to the N. It is not certain that Hauran is the district now so called, but it is probable. Wetzstein (Del. Psalms iii. 439, Eaton’s Trans.), identifies the village of Haar at the East foot of Hermon with Hazar Enan. In all likelihood the end of the boundary line is hereabouts; in Deu 3:8 Hermon is the northernmost point of conquest, and Ezek. would probably follow this. The northern boundary followed an easterly course from the sea, Hamath lying on the N., then a southerly course having Damascus on the E., till it terminated at Hazar Enon between Damascus and Hauran. But at what point of the sea it started, and in what latitude the line to the east ran is obscure. The identifications of Hethlon with Heitela and of Zedad with Sadad would give the latitude of Emesa (Homs), which is very far north; see Porter, Five Years in Damascus, 11. 354 seq. and map. More likely the prophet fancied the starting-point on the W. to be about Tyre.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
And the north … – Or, and on the north, the border on the north shall be etc.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 17. The border from the sea] The north border eastward is ascertained Eze 47:15-16; here it is shown how far it extends itself northward.
Hazar-enan] The village of Enan, Nu 34:9, placed to the north of Caesarea Philippi. Ziphron, see Nu 34:9, called Zaphion by the Syriac.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
The border; the utmost northern bounds.
From the sea: see Eze 47:15.
Hazar-enan; the village Enan, or Enon, near Sedada.
The north northward; a line drawn from west to east, that shall distinguish the most northern boundaries of Israel from the most southern of Syria Damascena.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
17. Hazar-enana town in thenorth of Canaan, meaning “village of fountains.”
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus,…. Which was the furthermost part and end of the northern border, as fixed by Moses, Nu 34:9:
and the north northward, and the border of Hamath; if this is carrying on the border further, it seems to be another Hamath, distinct from the former, Eze 47:16,
and this is the north side: of the land, and the description of the northern border of it, from the Mediterranean sea to Hazarenan.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(17) The border from the sea shall be Hazarenan.Comparing this with Num. 34:9, it is plain that the sense is, The (north) boundary which started from the sea shall terminate at Hazar-enan, where it meets the boundaries of Damascus. Hazar-enan means the village of springs, and is mentioned in Eze. 48:1, and in Num. 34:9-10, as the end of the north and beginning of the east boundary of the land. For and the border of Hamath, read even the borderi.e., the northern boundary is the (south) boundary of Hamath. While it is impossible to locate precisely this northern boundary, either as given in Numbers or by Ezekiel, it is evident that the two are identical, and that the line stretched from the Mediterranean to the territory of Damascus. The whole width of the country at this point would therefore be somewhat over thirty miles.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Eze 47:17. And the north, northward, &c. And Zaphon to the north, and Hamath the border. Houbigant.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Eze 47:17 And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath. And [this is] the north side.
Ver. 17. And the border from the sea shall be Hazarenan. ] Forasmuch as the borders in this description of the land are set to be such as never were in the Israelites’ possession, the Jewish doctors are, will they nill they, forced to confess that the land of Israel in the world to come shall be larger than ever it had been. Now gospel times are called “the world to come.” Heb 2:5
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
the border from: The Holy Land, as here described, extended from about 31 degrees to 35 degrees n lat. and from 34 degrees to 37 degrees e long.; being bounded on the north by a line drawn from the Mediterranean to Hamath; on the east by Damascus, Hauran, Gilead, and the land of Israel east of Jordan, unto the south of the Dead sea; on the south by Tamar and Kadesh, unto the river of Rhinocorura; and on the west by the Mediterranean sea, from the same point northward “till a man came over against Hamath;” and its length from north to south would be about 280 miles, and its breadth about 150 miles. The ten tribes, as well as Judah and Benjamin, were to be admitted to a full share in this inheritance, which seems to imply, that the future restoration to the promised land is predicted; while the admission of strangers who sojourned in the land to a share in the inheritance, as if native Israelites, plainly intimates the calling of the Gentiles into the church, and their joint inheritance of its privileges, and of the heavenly felicity.
Hazarenan: Eze 48:1, Num 34:9
Reciprocal: Gen 10:18 – Hamathite Eze 47:15 – And this
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Eze 47:17. Damascus belonged to the nation of Syria but it was just outside of Canaan. It is named here as another aid in establishing the boundary of the land.