Then he said to me, “These waters flow out toward the eastern region and will go down into the Arabah. Then they will go toward the sea and flow into the sea which will be made to flow out; and the waters will be healed.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 8. The. Hebrew “the east country,” (Prot. Bible.) or “the frontiers (Gelilah) eastward,” by which some improperly suppose that one rivulet went to the sea of Galilee.—And shall. Hebrew “the sea of the going out,” where the Jordan River empties itself into the Dead Sea; or, the second rivulet ran into the Mediterranean. Zechariah 14:8. But this passage relates to the Dead Sea alone, (verse 18) and Gelilah is a place near it, where the Israelites erected an altar of union. Joshua 22:10. Calmet.—Healed. No fish can live in the sea of Sodom. Solin xxxviii.—Yet, let the place be ever so noxious, this water shall cure it; (see 4 Kennicott. 2:19. Calmet.) which must be taken in a mystical sense. Bible.