The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Ezekiel 47:2 (NIV)

He then brought me out through the north gate and led me round the outside to the outer gate facing east, and the water was trickling from the south side.
 
Ezekiel 47:3 (NIV)

As the man went eastward with a measuring line in his hand, he measured off a thousand cubits and then led me through water
that was ankle-deep.
 
Ezekiel 47:4 (NIV)

He measured off another thousand cubits and led me through water that was knee-deep. He measured off another thousand
and led me through water that was up to the waist.
 
Ezekiel 47:5 (NIV)

He measured off another thousand, but now it was a river that I could not cross, because the water had risen and was deep
enough to swim in – a river that no one could cross.
 
Ezekiel 47:6 (NIV)

He asked me, ‘Son of man, do you see this?’ Then he led me back to the bank of the river.
 
Ezekiel 47:7 (KJV)

Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.
 
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Ezekiel 47:8 (KJV)

Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the dessert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.
 
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Ezekiel 47:9 (KJV)

And it shall come to pass, that every thing that liveth, which moveth, whithersoever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall
be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall come thither: for they shall be healed; and every thing shall live whither the river cometh.
 
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Ezekiel 47:10 (KJV)

And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
 
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Ezekiel 47:11 (KJV)

But the miry places thereof and the marishes thereof shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
 
Ezekiel 47:12 (KJV)

And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade,
neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they
issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
 
Ezekiel 47:13 (KJV)

Thus saith the Lord God; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel:
Joseph shall have two portions.
 
Ezekiel 47:14 (KJV)

And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another: concerning the which I lifted up mine hand to give it unto your fathers:
and this land shall fall unto you for inheritance.
 
Ezekiel 47:15 (KJV)

And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;
 
Ezekiel 47:16 (KJV)

Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazarhatticon,
which is by the coast of Hauran.
 
Ezekiel 47:17 (KJV)

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.
 
Ezekiel 47:18 (KJV)

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.
 
Ezekiel 47:19 (KJV)

And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea.
And this is the south side southward.
 
Ezekiel 47:20 (KJV)

The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.