Great Sea
Water · today: sea
(Joel 2:20; Ezek. 47:18), the Dead Sea, which lay on the east side of the Holy Land. The Mediterranean, which lay on the west, was hence called the “great sea for the west border” (Num. 34:6).
Named in 12 verses
- Numbers 34:6 “‘For the western border, you shall have the great sea and its border. This shall be your west border.
- Numbers 34:7 “‘This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall mark out for yourselves Mount Hor.
- Joshua 1:4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of t
- Joshua 9:1 When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite,
- Joshua 15:12 The west border was to the shore of the great sea. This is the border of the children of Judah according to their families.
- Joshua 15:47 Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the brook of Egypt, and the great sea with its coastline.
- Joshua 23:4 Behold, I have allotted to you these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even
- Ezekiel 47:10 It will happen that fishermen will stand by it. From En Gedi even to En Eglaim will be a place for the spreading of nets. Their fish will be after their kinds,
- Ezekiel 47:15 “This shall be the border of the land: “On the north side, from the great sea, by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad;
- Ezekiel 47:19 “The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook, to the great sea. This is the south side southward.
- Ezekiel 47:20 “The west side shall be the great sea, from the south border as far as opposite the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.
- Ezekiel 48:28 “By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook, to the great sea.