Ezekiel 47:18
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On the east side the border will run between Hauran and Damascus, along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel, to the Eastern Sea and as far as Tamar. This will be the eastern boundary.
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And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
who that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on the other side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.
Though the river rages, Behemoth is unafraid; he remains secure, though the Jordan surges to his mouth.
So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.
Laban called it Jegar-sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.
Now the Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, and they saw that the region was suitable for livestock.