Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 48:1

1 NOW these are the names of the tribes. From the North end to the coast of the way of Hethlon , as one goeth to Hamath , Hazar-Enan , the border of Damascus Northward, to the coast of Hamath , for these are his sides East and West, a portion for Dan .

Which follow in their Order.

As the Measurer began to bound the land first on the North-side, so he will first place the Tribe, to whom the most Northern Lot fell, or rather was assign'd by a Divine direction.

Along through the coast, that leads from the West or great Sea to Hethlon.

See chap. 47.15. let. m.

A Frontier City of that name; See chap. 47.16. let. o. antiently the Royal City of Toi, who congratulated David in his victory over Hadadezer King of Syria Zobah, 2 Sam. 8.9, 10.

Vid. chap. 47.17. let. y. for I meet with no more concerning it.

And so on by the Border of Damascus, which lay farther Eastward, then Enan, as Geographers describe it.

This is Syria, and perhaps might have been best so translated, along bordering on this coast the rest of the Northern boundary did run.

The Land, or Dan mentioned immediately after.

That is from the East point, where Mount Libanus joineth to Gilead, to the West Point, which is supposed in the Midland-Sea, near the Hot Baths or Sidon; See chap. 47.20.

The Tribe of Dan, and the strangers, that sojourn with him.

Marginal references: Heb. one portion.