Contents:
Summary
Chapters with Brit-Am Commentary

Summary:
Chapter 46: The future Temple service, the Rights of the Prince, and of each individual in light of the Temple offerings.

Chapter 47: Water will flow out from underneath the Temple, flow down to the Dead Sea and purify it so that it be full of fish.
The future borders of Israel will reach far to the North beyond Damascus and into Turkey. The non-Israelite who dwells amongst Israelites will receive an inheritance with the Tribe he dwells amongst.

Chapter 48: The Great Land of Israel within its true expanded borders will be divided equally amongst the Tribes of Israel.

Contents:
Chapters with Brit-Am Commentary:
Ezekiel 46 to 48
Ezekiel 46
 [Ezekiel 46:1] THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD; THE GATE OF THE INNER COURT THAT LOOKETH TOWARD THE EAST SHALL BE SHUT THE SIX WORKING DAYS; BUT ON THE SABBATH IT SHALL BE OPENED, AND IN THE DAY OF THE NEW MOON IT SHALL BE OPENED. 
Ezekiel continues and speaks of the service that will be conducted in the future rebuilt Temple. Some say that this service will essentially be the same as that which was maintained in the Second Temple while others interpret to Ezekiel as saying that changes will be made. Three times a year all the males had to go up to sacrifice at the Temple.
 
[Ezekiel 46:2] AND THE PRINCE SHALL ENTER BY THE WAY OF THE PORCH OF THAT GATE WITHOUT, AND SHALL STAND BY THE POST OF THE GATE, AND HE SHALL WORSHIP AT THE THRESHOLD OF THE GATE: THEN HE SHALL GO FORTH; BUT THE GATE SHALL NOT BE SHUT UNTIL THE EVENING.          
 
[Ezekiel 46:3] LIKEWISE THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND SHALL WORSHIP AT THE DOOR OF THIS GATE BEFORE THE LORD IN THE SABBATHS AND IN THE NEW MOONS.                     
 
[Ezekiel 46:4] AND THE BURNT OFFERING THAT THE PRINCE SHALL OFFER UNTO THE LORD IN THE SABBATH DAY SHALL BE SIX LAMBS WITHOUT BLEMISH, AND A RAM WITHOUT BLEMISH.                     
 
[Ezekiel 46:5] AND THE MEAT OFFERING SHALL BE AN EPHAH FOR A RAM, AND THE MEAT OFFERING FOR THE LAMBS AS HE SHALL BE ABLE TO GIVE, AND AN HIN OF OIL TO AN EPHAH.                     
 
[Ezekiel 46:6] AND IN THE DAY OF THE NEW MOON IT SHALL BE A YOUNG BULLOCK WITHOUT BLEMISH, AND SIX LAMBS, AND A RAM: THEY SHALL BE WITHOUT BLEMISH.                     
 
[Ezekiel 46:7] AND HE SHALL PREPARE A MEAT OFFERING, AN EPHAH FOR A BULLOCK, AND AN EPHAH FOR A RAM, AND FOR THE LAMBS ACCORDING AS HIS HAND SHALL ATTAIN UNTO, AND AN HIN OF OIL TO AN EPHAH.                     
 
[Ezekiel 46:8] AND WHEN THE PRINCE SHALL ENTER, HE SHALL GO IN BY THE WAY OF THE PORCH OF THAT GATE, AND HE SHALL GO FORTH BY THE WAY THEREOF.                     
 
[Ezekiel 46:9] BUT WHEN THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND SHALL COME BEFORE THE LORD IN THE SOLEMN FEASTS, HE THAT ENTERETH IN BY THE WAY OF THE NORTH GATE TO WORSHIP SHALL GO OUT BY THE WAY OF THE SOUTH GATE; AND HE THAT ENTERETH BY THE WAY OF THE SOUTH GATE SHALL GO FORTH BY THE WAY OF THE NORTH GATE: HE SHALL NOT RETURN BY THE WAY OF THE GATE WHEREBY HE CAME IN, BUT                      SHALL GO FORTH OVER AGAINST IT.                     
 
[Ezekiel 46:10] AND THE PRINCE IN THE MIDST OF THEM, WHEN THEY GO IN, SHALL GO IN; AND WHEN THEY GO FORTH, SHALL GO FORTH.                     
 
[Ezekiel 46:11] AND IN THE FEASTS AND IN THE SOLEMNITIES THE MEAT OFFERING SHALL BE AN EPHAH TO A BULLOCK, AND AN EPHAH TO A RAM, AND TO THE LAMBS AS HE IS ABLE TO GIVE, AND AN HIN OF  OIL TO AN EPHAH.                     
 
[Ezekiel 46:12] NOW WHEN THE PRINCE SHALL PREPARE A VOLUNTARY BURNT OFFERING OR PEACE OFFERINGS VOLUNTARILY UNTO THE LORD, ONE SHALL THEN OPEN HIM THE GATE THAT LOOKETH TOWARD THE EAST, AND HE SHALL PREPARE HIS BURNT OFFERING AND HIS PEACE OFFERINGS, AS HE DID ON THE SABBATH DAY: THEN HE SHALL GO FORTH; AND AFTER HIS GOING FORTH ONE SHALL SHUT THE GATE.                     
 
[Ezekiel 46:13] THOU SHALT DAILY PREPARE A BURNT OFFERING UNTO THE LORD OF A LAMB OF THE FIRST YEAR WITHOUT BLEMISH: THOU SHALT PREPARE IT EVERY MORNING.                     
 
[Ezekiel 46:14] AND THOU SHALT PREPARE A MEAT OFFERING FOR IT EVERY MORNING, THE SIXTH PART OF AN EPHAH, AND THE THIRD PART OF AN HIN OF OIL, TO TEMPER WITH THE FINE FLOUR; A MEAT OFFERING CONTINUALLY BY A PERPETUAL ORDINANCE UNTO THE LORD.                     
 
[Ezekiel 46:15] THUS SHALL THEY PREPARE THE LAMB, AND THE MEAT OFFERING, AND THE OIL, EVERY MORNING FOR A CONTINUAL BURNT OFFERING.                     
 
[Ezekiel 46:16] THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD; IF THE PRINCE GIVE A GIFT UNTO ANY OF HIS SONS, THE INHERITANCE THEREOF SHALL BE HIS SONS'; IT SHALL BE THEIR POSSESSION BY INHERITANCE. 
The future princely ruler of all Israel will bear children and his sons shall have positions of authority.

[Ezekiel 46:17] BUT IF HE GIVE A GIFT OF HIS INHERITANCE TO ONE OF HIS SERVANTS, THEN IT SHALL BE HIS TO THE YEAR OF LIBERTY; AFTER IT SHALL RETURN TO THE PRINCE: BUT HIS INHERITANCE SHALL BE HIS  SONS' FOR THEM.                     
 
[Ezekiel 46:18] MOREOVER THE PRINCE SHALL NOT TAKE OF THE PEOPLE'S INHERITANCE BY   OPPRESSION, TO THRUST THEM OUT OF THEIR POSSESSION; BUT HE SHALL GIVE HIS SONS INHERITANCE OUT OF HIS OWN POSSESSION: THAT MY PEOPLE BE NOT SCATTERED EVERY MAN FROM HIS POSSESSION.
Every Israelite will receive an inheritance that will always belong to him and that he will pass on to his children.  
<<MY PEOPLE BE NOT SCATTERED EVERY MAN FROM HIS POSSESSION: Everyone will be in his own inheritance in his Tribal territory. The Bible appears to place emphasis on Tribal belonging. Members of the same tribe were to live together in their own area. The mutual influences of common ancestry were to enable the unique Tribal potentialities of the individual members better express themselves. Marriage between members of the different Tribes was permitted and took place but we have sources that suggest that this was not common and not encouraged.
                 
 
[Ezekiel 46:19] AFTER HE BROUGHT ME THROUGH THE ENTRY, WHICH WAS AT THE SIDE OF THE GATE, INTO THE HOLY CHAMBERS OF THE PRIESTS, WHICH LOOKED TOWARD THE NORTH: AND, BEHOLD, THERE WAS A PLACE ON THE TWO SIDES WESTWARD.                     
 
[Ezekiel 46:20] THEN SAID HE UNTO ME, THIS IS THE PLACE WHERE THE PRIESTS SHALL BOIL THE TRESPASS OFFERING AND THE SIN OFFERING, WHERE THEY SHALL BAKE THE MEAT OFFERING; THAT THEY BEAR THEM NOT OUT INTO THE UTTER COURT, TO SANCTIFY THE PEOPLE.
We all make mistakes. We all sin sometimes or do things we regret and wish we could undoe. We can repent of these things and feel remorse and contrition. Nevertheless often a remaining sense of guilt and uneasiness can bear down on us. This can cause depression or other negative energies.  The Temple service in some way would cause an effect to free us of these burdens, to uplift and liberate our inner beings to the point they should be at. Until the Temple is rebuilt the same effect may be partially achieved through good deeds, prayer, Bible learning, offerings and charity.                 
 
[Ezekiel 46:21] THEN HE BROUGHT ME FORTH INTO THE UTTER COURT, AND CAUSED ME TO PASS BY THE  FOUR CORNERS OF THE COURT; AND, BEHOLD, IN EVERY CORNER OF THE COURT THERE WAS A COURT.                     
 
[Ezekiel 46:22] IN THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE COURT THERE WERE COURTS JOINED OF FORTY CUBITS LONG  AND THIRTY BROAD: THESE FOUR CORNERS WERE OF ONE MEASURE.                     
 
[Ezekiel 46:23] AND THERE WAS A ROW OF BUILDING ROUND ABOUT IN THEM, ROUND ABOUT THEM FOUR, AND IT WAS MADE WITH BOILING PLACES UNDER THE ROWS ROUND ABOUT.                     
 
[Ezekiel 46:24] THEN SAID HE UNTO ME, THESE ARE THE PLACES OF THEM THAT BOIL, WHERE THE  MINISTERS OF THE HOUSE SHALL BOIL THE SACRIFICE OF THE PEOPLE.
 
Ezekiel 47
[Ezekiel 47:1] AFTERWARD HE BROUGHT ME AGAIN UNTO THE DOOR OF THE HOUSE; AND, BEHOLD, WATERS ISSUED OUT FROM UNDER THE THRESHOLD OF THE HOUSE EASTWARD: FOR THE FOREFRONT OF THE HOUSE STOOD TOWARD THE EAST, AND THE WATERS CAME DOWN FROM UNDER FROM THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE HOUSE, AT THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE ALTAR. 
The Temple Mount in Jerusalem has underneath it numerous tunnels, great cavities, and also underground streams of water whose source is not clear. There are a lot of things we do not know of this nature. The Sinai Desert, for instance, according to an analysis of satellite photographs may possess a vast underground sea of possibly fresh water.                   
 
[Ezekiel 47:2] THEN BROUGHT HE ME OUT OF THE WAY OF THE GATE NORTHWARD, AND LED ME ABOUT THE WAY WITHOUT UNTO THE UTTER GATE BY THE WAY THAT LOOKETH EASTWARD; AND, BEHOLD, THERE RAN OUT WATERS ON THE RIGHT SIDE.                     
 
[Ezekiel 47:3] AND WHEN THE MAN THAT HAD THE LINE IN HIS HAND WENT FORTH EASTWARD, HE MEASURED A THOUSAND CUBITS, AND HE BROUGHT ME THROUGH THE WATERS; THE WATERS WERE TO THE ANKLES.                     
 
[Ezekiel 47:4] AGAIN HE MEASURED A THOUSAND, AND BROUGHT ME THROUGH THE WATERS; THE   WATERS WERE TO THE KNEES. AGAIN HE MEASURED A THOUSAND, AND BROUGHT ME THROUGH; THE WATERS WERE TO THE LOINS.
The further away they went from the source of the waters, the deeper they became.                    
 
[Ezekiel 47:5] AFTERWARD HE MEASURED A THOUSAND; AND IT WAS A RIVER THAT I COULD NOT PASS OVER: FOR THE WATERS WERE RISEN, WATERS TO SWIM IN, A RIVER THAT COULD NOT BE PASSED OVER.                     
 
[Ezekiel 47:6] AND HE SAID UNTO ME, SON OF MAN, HAST THOU SEEN THIS" THEN HE BROUGHT ME, AND CAUSED ME TO RETURN TO THE BRINK OF THE RIVER.                     
 
[Ezekiel 47:7] NOW WHEN I HAD RETURNED, BEHOLD, AT THE BANK OF THE RIVER WERE VERY MANY  TREES ON THE ONE SIDE AND ON THE OTHER.                     
 
[Ezekiel 47:8] THEN SAID HE UNTO ME, THESE WATERS ISSUE OUT TOWARD THE EAST COUNTRY, AND  GO DOWN INTO THE DESERT, AND GO INTO THE SEA: WHICH BEING BROUGHT FORTH INTO THE SEA, THE  WATERS SHALL BE HEALED.  
The Dead Sea is now so salty that you can float in it without sinking. It will be sweetened and become a source of fresh water.                  
 
[Ezekiel 47:9] 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. 
There will be a plentitude of fish in the waters.                   
 
[Ezekiel 47:10] 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.                     
 
[Ezekiel 47:11] BUT THE MIRY PLACES THEREOF AND THE MARISHES THEREOF SHALL NOT BE HEALED; THEY SHALL BE GIVEN TO SALT.                     
 
[Ezekiel 47:12] 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. 
<<MEAT: Hebrew, "ma-acol", = food.                   
 
[Ezekiel 47:13] 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] 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] 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] HAMATH, BEROTHAH, SIBRAIM, WHICH IS BETWEEN THE BORDER OF DAMASCUS AND THE BORDER OF HAMATH; HAZAR HATTICON, WHICH IS BY THE COAST OF HAURAN.                     
 
[Ezekiel 47:17] 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. 
In the notes below we have identified "Damascus" in Biblical terms with the region of Cilicia in southeast Turkey and to the east of Cilicia. Another alternative (not entirely contradictory) would place "Damascus" in Biblical terms in the Habor (Khabur) River region in eastern Syria.
I just came across an entry ("Near Eastern Archaeology in the Twentieth Century", edited by James A. Sanders, 1970, article by Abraham Malamat, p. 173, note 2) that claims that in ancient times there were two places identified with Damascus (Apum) one where the present city of Damascus is and the other "in the Habor region". He quotes ancient texts and academic sources that I have not yet checked.
 
Adapted from "Lost Israelite Identity" by Yair David(i)y:
 The northern borders of Israelite occupation reached into the present day region of Armenia. The River Euphrates along all its course appears to have served as the boundary. The area of Biblical Damascus was not present-day "Damascus" but rather another place situated on the Euphrates and as a city-site is identical with Meskine or Thapsacus in northern Syria. Damascus was also the name of the surrounding district that seems to have encompassed Cilicia and the rivers Ceyhan and Pyramus in modern southeast Turkey. The Tribes of Dan and Judah were to restablish outlying provinces of their own within this "Damascus" region. The northern area of Dan (the Dananu) was known in Assyrian Inscriptions as "Smal" and that of Judah as "Yadi" (i.e. "Judah" in Assyrian). Jeroboam-ii (785-758 b.c.e), King of northern Israel "returned Damascus and Hamath to Judah in Israel" (2-Kings 14;28): referring to the Israelites and Judaeans temporarily regaining control over their northern territories*1.      
                  
            DAMASCUS was far to the north near (or in Cilicia) and not Damascus of today. The Yadi (of Judah) ruled over the Mushkabim19 who (according to a bi-lingual Phoenician-Hittite inscription) are apparently identical with the Moshki or people of Mopsus who were also subjects of the Dananu king from the Tribe of Dan in the north. The names Mushkabim and Moshki support the notion that Smal and Yadi are identical with the Biblical Da-Meshek i.e. Damascus:- "Damascus [i.e. Da-Meshek] and Hamath to Judah in Israel" (2 Kings 14;28). Both the Danites and Yadi of Judah ruled over the same subject Moshki people who later were known as Muski and are identified with the Phrygians. There were periods when both the Dananu and Yadi were ruled by the same monarch. At some stage they separated, Kalamu a king of Yadi backed the subject Mushkabim (i.e. Moshki) against the Baririm or nobility of his own people and also enlisted Assyrian help against the Dananu*20. The ultimate result was that both kingdoms were destroyed and the Yadi and Dananu exiled. Centuries later the Jutes (from "Yadi"") were to settle in Denmark and a Danish tradition traced the Jutes to Judah and the Danes to Dan. Dan and Judah were often linked throughout their histories as explained in "The Tribes".
 
In the Book of Ezekiel (48;1) it says concerning the future apportionment of the Promised Land amongst the Israelite Tribes,
 
            "From the north end to the coast ...as one goes to Hamath...the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath..a portion for Dan".
 
            This verse according to Commentaries indicates that Dan is destined to receive a portion stretching beyond Hamath (Antiochea on the Orontes) and into the region northward of it. This Millenial Promise seems to have had an historical precedent.
 
ISRAELITE BORDERS IN THE FAR NORTH: DAMASCUS, DAN, AND NORTHERN JUDAH
 
            The region of Cilicia in the southeast of present day Turkey extending to Thapsacus on the Euphrates River in Biblical times was known as "Damascus" or as Damascus of "Judah in Israel". It was to be ruled by enclaves of settlers from the Israelite Tribes of Judah and Dan.
  Proofs that this region was Israelite consist of the following:
 
 David put garrisons in Syria Damascus and established his dominion by the Euphrates River.
 
            "And David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah unto Hamath, as he went to establish his dominion by the river Euphrates.
 
            ".....Then David put garrisons in Aram Damascus [Syria Damascus]." (1 Chronicles 18;3,6).
 
            cf. "And Solomon went to Hamath Zobah and prevailed against it.
 
            "And he built Tadmor in the wilderness, and all the store cities, which he built in Hamath" (2 Chronicles 8;3 4).
 
"Damascus" in Biblical terms did not usually refer to the Damascus of today but rather (when speaking of a city) to Meskine (Thapsacus) in north Syria on the Euphrates River and (when speaking of a country) including all the area to the north, east, and west.
 
 
 Note that Hamath in the Bible mostly means a country (and not just one city as sometimes supposed) and in the above verse it has (several) store cities built in it.
     King Solomon established an economic base in the province of Cilicia though this fact has been often overlooked due to a misunderstanding in the King James Translation.
 
The KJ says,
            "And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn [Hebrew: "qu"]: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price".
 
            "And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring them out by their means.." (1 Kings 10;28 29). 
 
            The word ("KU") translated in the KJ as "linen yarn" actually was the name of a place transliterated as "Qu", "Coa", or as Qeve. This place was Cilicia in southeast Turkey.
    "The kings of Aram" may be referring to north Syria though there were also Tribes of Aramaeans concentrated in north Mesopotamia and others scattered in the south.
    It may be concluded that Solomon had a base in Cilicia (i.e. in Ku), a monopoly on the horse trade with "Mitsrayim" which could also refer to northern regions, and trading leverage throughout the Middle East and north Mesopotamian region.
   Kue was eventually controlled by the Dananu rulers of Smal. "SMAL" in Hebrew means "left" (as opposed to right) and the left side was considered the Northern one.
 
      ARCHAEOLOGICAL FINDS reveal connections between the various parts of the Israelite Kingdom. Buildings in Smal, in the neighbouring Thapsacus (Northern Damascus region), and Hama of Hamath are similar in style to those later or contemporaneously associated with the reigns of Kings David and Solomon in Israel.   Inscriptions show that some kings of Hamath had Hebraic names.
     Jeroboam 2 (785 758 b.c.e), "returned Damascus and Hamath to Judah in Israel"  (2 Kings 14;28). "To return" implies that the receiver had previous and rightful possession. "Damascus and Hamath" mean here the regions between Antiochea (i.e. Hamath) on the north Syrian coast and Meskine on the Euphrates. This was the southern region of Luash (Liash ) of Smal and Yadi. "Yadi" in Assyrian is synonymous with Judah. Yadi was also known as "Yaudi", and "Yauti" and "Yati" which were all dialectical forms in Assyrian and Caucasian areas for Judah.  Jeroboam 2 King of Northern Israel had
 
            "returned Damascus and Hamath to Judah in Israel".
 
 Perhaps the meaning is that he returned those regions to Yadi which was just to the north of them, Yadi being "Judah in Israel"" i.e. that entity of Judah which was within the boundary of the northern kingdom of Israel as distinct from the independent southern kingdom of Judah in the south" 
            Jeroboam 2 (the son of Amon) was contemporary (2 Kings 15;1 2) with Azariah  (also called Uziah 2-Chronicles 26;1) king of Judah. The northern Yadi had become dominated by a dynasty that favored the subject Mushkabim people over the Israelite aristocracy and it was this situation that Jeroboam-ii and Azariah came to rectify. After Jeroboam's demise (in 758 b.c.e.), King Azariah of Judah led a coalition of 19 mainly northern states against Assyria. Hamath, Damascus, Tyre, Kummukh, Gebal, Melid, Carcamish, etc., were all in the coalition of Azariah. Azariah is termed "Azariah of Yadi" by the Assyrians. "Yadi" is the Assyrian term for JUDAH. "YADI" (in this case) meant either Judah in the south (over which Azariah ruled) or Yadi in the north (over which Azariah may have had suzerainity) or both. The allies were defeated by Tiglathpileser iii in ca.738 b.c.e. All the kings EXCEPT AZARIAH submitted to Assyria. The northern kingdoms of Smal and Yadi were destroyed. One inscription records exiles from Yadi being taken to Ullubu in the former land of Urartu. The territory of Ullubu was approximately that of the Urartian Provinces of Nairi and Shupria, i.e. of "Mutsri" being the northern Egypt, in modern Armenia.
 
    DAMASCUS        
             The site of ancient Damascus has not yet been uncovered. It is not the Damascus of today. The position of Damascus is of interest to us since DAMASCUS was apparently within the boundaries of the northern border of Israel which reached to the Euphrates (Genesis 15;18) and is one of the marks of Israel's boundary in the Messianic era (Ezekiel 47;17 18).
            Identifying ancient Damascus serves as an exemplary indicator concerning the location of other places. Damascus was the name of both a region and a city. There was "Syria of Damascus" ("Aram Damasek" in Hebrew in 2 Samuel 8;5). The Arami (i.e. "Syrians") were an ethnic group with members in both Mesopotamia and the Syrian region. The Israelite Hebrews could also refer to themselves as Arami (Deuteronomy 26;5*) and were called "Arami" by others*. Likewise, the Scythians according to Pliny (N.H.16;9) were originally called  "Arami".
            Aram Damasek (Syria of Damascus) was part of, or closely associated with, Zobah (1 Chron.13;5 2-Samuel 8;5). Zobah equals the area called Subatu by the Assyrians. This area bordered Assyria on the west.
             It was noted above that Hamath also originally meant a place to the north and included the northern Syrian port city of Antiochea. Jeremiah (49;23) linked Damascus with Hamath and Arpad. Amos (1;5) associated Damascus with the House of Eden meaning the State of Bit Adini in Assyrian records. All these areas linked with Damascus are places to the northwest of Syria.        
 
A Syrian general Naaman, when told to bathe in the Jordan expostulated,
"Are not Abana and Parpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel"" (2 Kings 5;12).
             From this verse it may be learned that Damascus had two rivers, Abana and Parpar, both of which were probably more impressive than the Jordan River. Present day visitors see the Jordan as a narrow stream but this is because most of its water is diverted for irrigation. In Biblical times the climate of the Middle East was colder and wetter. There were vast forests which served to conserve moisture and lower temperature. The Jordan River was deeper and wider than it now is. The former banks may still be seen beside the Jordan today. They show where the water once reached. It must have been quite impressive by any standards.
            In the Middle East place names move and in some cases are based on little more than local Arab imagination. The town now called Damascus does have two rivers but these are hardly comparable to the Jordan even as it now and even less so when compared to how it must once have been.
            There were two Rivers in Cilicia which in Classical Literature are known as the Saros and Pyramus. Both these rivers are of impressive size and carry a large quantity of water. Both could well have compared favourably with the Jordan. Even today the quantity of freshwater that pours into the sea from these rivers if properly harnessed could solve most water shortage problems in the Middle East. The Pyramus River in a Hittite document is called the "Pu u ru na" (see Astour). This name is believed to be derived from a similar root as the Hebrew "PARAR". "PARAR" means `to break in pieces' and expresses the action of a violent stream. The English word "poor" similarly comes from the Hebrew "PUR" (root: PRR) meaning "a small piece" or broken remnant. One of the Rivers of Damascus recalled by the Syrian general Naaman (mentioned above) was named "PARPAR". "PUR" and "PARPAR" in Hebrew are derived from the same root and have a similar sound. The Pyramus River of Classical Literature is therefore the Puuruna of the Hittites and the "Parpar" River of Damascus in the  Bible.
            The Pyramus (Parpar) River in Cilicia of southeast Turkey is now called the Ceyhan River. It is just to the west (see Map) of the AMANUS Mountain Range. The Abana and Parpar were the two rivers of Damascus. The Parpar has just been identified as the Pyramus, leaving the Abana to still be located. In the Hebrew Bible (Masoretic Text) it will be noticed (2 Kings 5;12) that the word ABANA (Abana River) has none of the usual vowel points and besides it in the margin is the word "AMANA". There are a few similar cases of this phenomenon in the Hebrew Bible. The reasons are not always clear but the practical traditionally accepted implication is that the word in the text must always be pronounced as it is in the margin even though it is written differently! In other words, the Jewish Hebrew traditionalists always pronounced the word transliterated as "Abana" in 2 Kings 5;12 as "AMANA"! It stands to reason that the river Amana (i.e. Abana) of Damascus would have been relatively close to the Parpar which was the other river of Damascus and also that it was in the vicinity of the similarly named AMANUS Mountain Range which is also called Amana in the Song of Solomon (4;8) I would suggest that the river concerned was the Orontes or the northeast tributary of the Orontes which is to the east of the Amanus Mountains. This solution places the Abana (Amana Orontes) to the southeast of the Amanus Mountains and the Parpar (Pyramus) to the west. This was approximately the region of YADI which fits the description "returned Damascus and Hamath to Judah in Israel" (2 Kings 14;28). The city of Damascus will be demonstrated as having been that of Thapsacus (or Miskine) on the Euphrates. A solution which has the ancient Land of Aram Damascus stretch from Thapsacus to the northwest of neighbouring Arpad, and encompass the strategic Amanus Mountains solves most of the Geographical requirements posited for the location of Damascus in Scripture.
            The subject (non-Israelite) population of Yadi and Smal of the Dananu were called "Mushkabim" or "Muski". It had been prophesied that the Ten Tribes of Israel would be "scattered beyond the river" (1-Kings 14;15) meaning according to the Aramaic Translation of Yehonathan "Beyond the Euphrates". Amos the Prophet foresaw the exile of Israel "beyond Damascus" (Amos 5;27).
 
            "For the LORD shall smite Israel as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
 
            "And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who did sin, and who made Israel to sin" (1 Kings 14;15-15-16).
 
            "Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts" (Amos 5;27).                      
 
            By assuming that the Damascus spoken of in Scripture was by the Euphrates River  the above verses are reconciled with each other.
 
Proof From Ezekiel That Biblical Damascus Was Far To The North.
 (Main sources: Eiseman in Artscrolls on Ezekiel, Bar-Deroma).
            Ezekiel (47;17 18) placed Damascus on the northern or north east boundary of Israel which reached at least up to the Euphrates River (Genesis 15;18). Ezekiel in chapter 47 describes the future allocation of the Promised Land to the Tribes of Israel. Ezekiel (ch.48) divides the Land up into 13 portions. Each portion is 150,000 cubits wide:
 
            A cubit equals between 18 to 24 inches depending upon which opinion is relied upon. This measurement gives a minimum of 42.6 miles per portion. Between Jerusalem and the northern border there were 7 portions which gives us 298 miles and brings us to the Euphrates River to the city of Thapsacus otherwise known as Meskine. Meskine is the Biblical city of Damascus. Damascus in Hebrew is pronounced as Damashek. Scholars for some time have been interpreting this name as "DA-MESHEK" and relating it to the Meshki people who dwelt in the area.
    Abraham the patriarch said,
 
            "The steward of my house is Eliezer of Damascus" (Genesis 15;2).
 
This verse contains a play on words. The words translated as "Steward" in Hebrew are "ben Meshek" which may also be understood to mean "Man of Meshek",  i.e. the verse may alternately be read,
 
            "The man of Meshek [(serving)] in my house is Eliezer of Damashek":
 
"Man of Meshek" being naturally a native of Da-Meshek this being Meskine on the Euphrates adjoining the territories of the Muski (Mushkabim) who later were ruled by the Judaean Yadi and the Israelite Dananu..
      [It should be noted that there exist other opinions concerning the location of Damascus IN CONTRADICTION TO OUR OWN. One of these views is that of bar Deroma who places Biblical Damascus in Mesopotamia! This opinion is placed on several arguments, amongst which are the following:
 
The Meskenoi (Meshki) were to be found in Mesopotamia as well as around Meskine.                  
There was an important canal linking the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers. This canal was called Avena which he interprets as Abana. There was also a nearby area called Abena.
 
A Talmudic passage (Erubin 19a) states that a place called Dumaskinin (i.e. Damascus") was the most beautiful site in the Mesopotamian region.]
 
 NEVERTHELESS, the identification of Thapsacus-Meskine with Damascus of Scripture fits all of the Biblical passages. It accords with the identification of the Parpar River as the Pyramus and of the Abena (Amana) as the Orontes tributary east of the Amanus mountains. It identifies Scriptural Damascus with Yadi of Judah and thus clarifies the verse, "returned Hamath and Damascus to Judah in Israel". It also accords with the axiom that places the boundary of Israel on the Euphrates River even though from time to time excursions were made to the east of it, and it corresponds with the border measurements based on Ezekiel.
 
[Ezekiel 47:18] 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] 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] THE WEST SIDE ALSO SHALL BE THE GREAT SEA FROM THE BORDER, TILL A MAN COME OVER AGAINST HAMATH. THIS IS THE WEST SIDE.                     
 
[Ezekiel 47:21] SO SHALL YE DIVIDE THIS LAND UNTO YOU ACCORDING TO THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL.
The Land of Israel shall be divided amongst the Tribes of Israel. This land stretches from the western Nile Tributary eastward to the Persian Gulf. It includes Kuwait and parts of Saudi Arabia and Iraq. In the east it also cuts into Iraq and goes northward to the Caucasus taking in parts of eastern Turkey and Island of Cyprus. In the future there will be climatic changes and a bounty of water enabling the settlement of large Israelite populations. Whether all the Israelites will resettle in the Land or only representative (though large) portions from each family (as seems possible) is uncertain.                    
 
[Ezekiel 47:22] AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, THAT YE SHALL DIVIDE IT BY LOT FOR AN INHERITANCE  UNTO YOU, AND TO THE STRANGERS THAT SOJOURN AMONG YOU, WHICH SHALL BEGET CHILDREN AMONG YOU: AND THEY SHALL BE UNTO YOU AS BORN IN THE COUNTRY AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL; THEY SHALL HAVE INHERITANCE WITH YOU AMONG THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL. 
Non-Israelites who have settled amongst us, identified with us and shared our trials and tribulations alongside us will be considered as the same as us. They will be part of whatsoever Tribe of Israel they have dwelt amongst.                  
 
[Ezekiel 47:23] AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, THAT IN WHAT TRIBE THE STRANGER SOJOURNETH, THERE  SHALL YE GIVE HIM HIS INHERITANCE, SAITH THE LORD GOD.                     
 
Ezekiel 48
[Ezekiel 48:1] 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, HAZARENAN, THE BORDER OF DAMASCUS NORTHWARD, TO THE COAST OF HAMATH; FOR THESE ARE HIS SIDES EAST AND WEST; A PORTION FOR  DAN.  
This is the final chapter of Ezekiel. It concentrates on the division of the western section of the Land amongst the Tribes. [We understood that the western section is divided equally and in square shaped areas but other opinions say it is not divided equally only that it is divided (Moshkovitch, "Daat Mikra". At all events the eastern section apparently will be divided according to other criteria]. Ezekiel began with describing the departure of the Divine Presence from Jerusalem and he ends in the final verse by saying that this will return and all will know of the Return. The Return is connected with the Return and re-location of the Tribes. This is very important. Tribal identification and the return of the Tribes is important before the Almighty. It should be important to all of us. A first prerequisite is acknowledgment of Israelite heritage, of Israelite ancestry. Probably only in the Messianic era will most of us know, or be sure of what we know, concerning which specific Tribe we belong to.
 
In the book, "The Tribes", we used historical names, symbols, Biblical and Rabbinical sources, anything that seemed pertinent, etc, to arrive at Tribal approximations primarily at the national level. This was done after an extended period of significant effort on several levels. On the whole it worked. Since the publication of "The Tribes" more evidence has come to light, groups of people from the countries in question have met up with us, scholars have corresponded, etc. The identifications hold.
We can refine and strengthen these national findings. We can also, in all kinds of ways, to a degree further refine our identities within the areas in question.
Within the USA go to:
http://www.hamrick.com/names/
This will tell you where in the USA your family name is the most concentrated. This is a beginning. It may well be that to the degree that different Israelite Tribes are in the USA and their distribution changes from State to State and your family name is inherited then you belong to the group represented by where your name is concentrated. And it may not be so. So we try something else and attempt to confirm whatever we find in other ways.  Or we leave it for the Messianic era. Nevertheless awareness of Israelite Identity in general is something we must achieve. This must be internalized. This to my mind borders on a religious obligation. This is part of your individual destiny and it is the particular goal of this generation of  Israelites from the Ten Tribes. 
 
A Midrashic source (Sifrei) indicates that the division amongst the Tribes in Ezekiel refers to that of the Land of Israel but that each tribe will inherit "from one end of the world to the other". What they inherit however in the rest of the world will somehow be connected to what they inherit in the Land of Israel. It is as if a line goes out from their inheritance in the Land of Israel to wherever else they may be.                   
 
[Ezekiel 48:2] AND BY THE BORDER OF DAN, FROM THE EAST SIDE UNTO THE WEST SIDE, A PORTION  FOR ASHER.  
The Divisions given in Ezekiel reflect those in the Wilderness with significant differences here and there. Ezekiel places Dan at the far north and historically (as shown in "Lost Israelite Identity") a portion of Dan did break away and seize territory of its own in Eastern Turkey to the North of Syria. They also seized the Island of Cyprus which was called "Ydnna" (Isle of Dan") by the Assyrians.                  
 
[Ezekiel 48:3] AND BY THE BORDER OF ASHER, FROM THE EAST SIDE EVEN UNTO THE WEST SIDE, A  PORTION FOR NAPHTALI.
 
We have:
In the north: Dan, Asher, Naphtali, Manasseh, Ephraim, Reuben, Judah,
THE CITY AREA: Levi, The Messianic Prince, chosen Israelites from all the Tribes.
In the south:
Benjamin, Simeon, Issachar, Zebulon, Gad,                    
 
[Ezekiel 48:4] AND BY THE BORDER OF NAPHTALI, FROM THE EAST SIDE UNTO THE WEST SIDE, A PORTION FOR MANASSEH.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:5] AND BY THE BORDER OF MANASSEH, FROM THE EAST SIDE UNTO THE WEST SIDE, A  PORTION FOR EPHRAIM.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:6] AND BY THE BORDER OF EPHRAIM, FROM THE EAST SIDE EVEN UNTO THE WEST SIDE, A  PORTION FOR REUBEN.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:7] AND BY THE BORDER OF REUBEN, FROM THE EAST SIDE UNTO THE WEST SIDE, A PORTION FOR JUDAH.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:8] AND BY THE BORDER OF JUDAH, FROM THE EAST SIDE UNTO THE WEST SIDE, SHALL BE THE OFFERING WHICH YE SHALL OFFER OF FIVE AND TWENTY THOUSAND REEDS IN BREADTH, AND IN LENGTH AS ONE OF THE OTHER PARTS, FROM THE EAST SIDE UNTO THE WEST SIDE: AND THE SANCTUARY SHALL BE  IN THE MIDST OF IT.
                     
 [Ezekiel 48:9] THE OBLATION THAT YE SHALL OFFER UNTO THE LORD SHALL BE OF FIVE AND TWENTY  THOUSAND IN LENGTH, AND OF TEN THOUSAND IN BREADTH.                     
<<OBLATION: Hebrew, "trumah" = offering
 
 [Ezekiel 48:10] AND FOR THEM, EVEN FOR THE PRIESTS, SHALL BE THIS HOLY OBLATION; TOWARD THE NORTH FIVE AND TWENTY THOUSAND IN LENGTH, AND TOWARD THE WEST TEN THOUSAND IN BREADTH, AND  TOWARD THE EAST TEN THOUSAND IN BREADTH, AND TOWARD THE SOUTH FIVE AND TWENTY THOUSAND IN   LENGTH: AND THE SANCTUARY OF THE LORD SHALL BE IN THE MIDST THEREOF.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:11] IT SHALL BE FOR THE PRIESTS THAT ARE SANCTIFIED OF THE SONS OF ZADOK; WHICH HAVE KEPT MY CHARGE, WHICH WENT NOT ASTRAY WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WENT ASTRAY, AS THE  LEVITES WENT ASTRAY.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:12] AND THIS OBLATION OF THE LAND THAT IS OFFERED SHALL BE UNTO THEM A THING MOST HOLY BY THE BORDER OF THE LEVITES.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:13] AND OVER AGAINST THE BORDER OF THE PRIESTS THE LEVITES SHALL HAVE FIVE AND TWENTY THOUSAND IN LENGTH, AND TEN THOUSAND IN BREADTH: ALL THE LENGTH SHALL BE FIVE AND TWENTY THOUSAND, AND THE BREADTH TEN THOUSAND.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:14] AND THEY SHALL NOT SELL OF IT, NEITHER EXCHANGE, NOR ALIENATE THE FIRSTFRUITS OF THE LAND: FOR IT IS HOLY UNTO THE LORD.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:15] AND THE FIVE THOUSAND, THAT ARE LEFT IN THE BREADTH OVER AGAINST THE FIVE AND TWENTY THOUSAND, SHALL BE A PROFANE PLACE FOR THE CITY, FOR DWELLING, AND FOR SUBURBS: AND THE CITY SHALL BE IN THE MIDST THEREOF.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:16] AND THESE SHALL BE THE MEASURES THEREOF; THE NORTH SIDE FOUR THOUSAND AND FIVE HUNDRED, AND THE SOUTH SIDE FOUR THOUSAND AND FIVE HUNDRED, AND ON THE EAST SIDE FOUR THOUSAND AND FIVE HUNDRED, AND THE WEST SIDE FOUR THOUSAND AND FIVE HUNDRED.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:17] AND THE SUBURBS OF THE CITY SHALL BE TOWARD THE NORTH TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY, AND TOWARD THE SOUTH TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY, AND TOWARD THE EAST TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY, AND TOWARD THE WEST TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:18] AND THE RESIDUE IN LENGTH OVER AGAINST THE OBLATION OF THE HOLY PORTION SHALL BE TEN THOUSAND EASTWARD, AND TEN THOUSAND WESTWARD: AND IT SHALL BE OVER AGAINST THE OBLATION OF THE HOLY PORTION; AND THE INCREASE THEREOF SHALL BE FOR FOOD UNTO THEM THAT SERVE THE CITY.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:19] AND THEY THAT SERVE THE CITY SHALL SERVE IT OUT OF ALL THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL. 
Members of all the tribes will dwell in the Holy City. In ancient times the Israelites had to separate two tithes from their agricultural produce. The first tithe was for the Priests (Cohans) and Levites who served in the Temple and also instructed and supervised the people. The second tithe in the third and six years was given to the poor and the Levites. In the seventh year all the produce belonged to everybody so there were no tithes. In the first, second, fourth, and fifth years (of each seven-year cycle) the second tithe had to be eaten within the confines of Jerusalem. It could be eaten by anybody. Those who separated the second tithe could eat it themselves or give it to whomsoever they wished just as long as it was eaten in Jerusalem. Alternately, it could be exchanged for its monetary value (plus 25%) and the money taken to Jerusalem and there used to buy second tithes from others to be eaten in Jerusalem. The object of all this it has been said was to encourage each family to have members of the family living permanently in Jerusalem. These family members would study and work and their income be provided for (or at least supplemented) by offerings of second tithes of the other family members. The advantages of this were that every family of Israel would have a minimum family base within Jerusalem and a family member who would know the Law well.                   
 
[Ezekiel 48:20] ALL THE OBLATION SHALL BE FIVE AND TWENTY THOUSAND BY FIVE AND TWENTY THOUSAND: YE SHALL OFFER THE HOLY OBLATION FOURSQUARE, WITH THE POSSESSION OF THE CITY.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:21] AND THE RESIDUE SHALL BE FOR THE PRINCE, ON THE ONE SIDE AND ON THE OTHER OF    THE HOLY OBLATION, AND OF THE POSSESSION OF THE CITY, OVER AGAINST THE FIVE AND TWENTY THOUSAND OF THE OBLATION TOWARD THE EAST BORDER, AND WESTWARD OVER AGAINST THE FIVE AND TWENTY THOUSAND TOWARD THE WEST BORDER, OVER AGAINST THE PORTIONS FOR THE PRINCE: AND IT SHALL BE THE HOLY OBLATION; AND THE SANCTUARY OF THE HOUSE SHALL BE IN THE MIDST THEREOF.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:22] MOREOVER FROM THE POSSESSION OF THE LEVITES, AND FROM THE POSSESSION OF THE CITY, BEING IN THE MIDST OF THAT WHICH IS THE PRINCE'S, BETWEEN THE BORDER OF JUDAH AND THE BORDER OF BENJAMIN, SHALL BE FOR THE PRINCE.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:23] AS FOR THE REST OF THE TRIBES, FROM THE EAST SIDE UNTO THE WEST SIDE, BENJAMIN SHALL HAVE A PORTION.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:24] AND BY THE BORDER OF BENJAMIN, FROM THE EAST SIDE UNTO THE WEST SIDE, SIMEON SHALL HAVE A PORTION.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:25] AND BY THE BORDER OF SIMEON, FROM THE EAST SIDE UNTO THE WEST SIDE, ISSACHAR A PORTION.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:26] AND BY THE BORDER OF ISSACHAR, FROM THE EAST SIDE UNTO THE WEST SIDE,  ZEBULUN A PORTION.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:27] AND BY THE BORDER OF ZEBULUN, FROM THE EAST SIDE UNTO THE WEST SIDE, GAD A PORTION.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:28] AND BY THE BORDER OF GAD, AT THE SOUTH SIDE SOUTHWARD, THE BORDER SHALL BE EVEN FROM TAMAR UNTO THE WATERS OF STRIFE IN KADESH, AND TO THE RIVER TOWARD THE GREAT  SEA.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:29] THIS IS THE LAND WHICH YE SHALL DIVIDE BY LOT UNTO THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL FOR INHERITANCE, AND THESE ARE THEIR PORTIONS, SAITH THE LORD GOD.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:30] AND THESE ARE THE GOINGS OUT OF THE CITY ON THE NORTH SIDE, FOUR THOUSAND AND FIVE HUNDRED MEASURES.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:31] AND THE GATES OF THE CITY SHALL BE AFTER THE NAMES OF THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL:  THREE GATES NORTHWARD; ONE GATE OF REUBEN, ONE GATE OF JUDAH, ONE GATE OF LEVI.                     
The City Gates: Each Tribe will have a gate to the city of its own.
North: Reuben, Judah, Levi
East: Joseph, Benjamin, Dan"
South: Simeon, Issachar, Zebulon
West: Gad, Asher, Naphtali
The Twelve-Tribe Quorum: There were actually 13 tribes but twelve always only counted. This chapter illustrates the principle. In the list of territorial allocations Ephraim and Manasseh are counted as separate tribes. Levi is not listed since his territory was bound up with the central portion of the Prince and City. In the list of the gates Ephraim and Manasseh are counted together as Joseph and Levi is listed separately. In each case 12 separate entities are listed and not 13. This also shows that even though Ephraim and Manasseh were separate tribes (in Biblical times they sometimes fought each other!) in some ways in the eyes of God and practical reality (a gate) they could be considered as one.
 
 [Ezekiel 48:32] AND AT THE EAST SIDE FOUR THOUSAND AND FIVE HUNDRED: AND THREE GATES; AND ONE GATE OF JOSEPH, ONE GATE OF BENJAMIN, ONE GATE OF DAN.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:33] AND AT THE SOUTH SIDE FOUR THOUSAND AND FIVE HUNDRED MEASURES: AND THREE GATES; ONE GATE OF SIMEON, ONE GATE OF ISSACHAR, ONE GATE OF ZEBULUN.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:34] AT THE WEST SIDE FOUR THOUSAND AND FIVE HUNDRED, WITH THEIR THREE GATES; ONE GATE OF GAD, ONE GATE OF ASHER, ONE GATE OF NAPHTALI.                     
 
[Ezekiel 48:35] IT WAS ROUND ABOUT EIGHTEEN THOUSAND MEASURES: AND THE NAME OF THE CITY FROM THAT DAY SHALL BE, THE LORD IS THERE.
The Presence of God will be known all over the earth but it will be ESPECIALLY  tangible in the Holy City.
The Future Tribal Arrangements:
From  North to South (Ezekiel chapter 48):
Dan
Asher
Naphtali
Manasseh,
Ephraim,
Reuben,
Judah,
THE CITY AREA: Levi, The Messianic Prince, chosen Israelites from all the Tribes.
In the south:
Benjamin,
Simeon,
Issachar,
Zebulon,
Gad,                    
 
The Future National Arrangements:
Taking different sources together the following picture may be proposed. This is a PROPOSAL (and nothing more) based on sources as to what may be:
The Messiah or a Process associated with the Messiah will let all Israelites know what tribe they belong to. Outside of the Land of Israel: Non-Israelites who have not identified with their Israelite neighbors and/or not gained merit will be sent away. Those who remain will be counted as belonging to the tribe amongst whom they dwell. People from different tribes will move to areas were members of their own tribe are predominant. Each Tribe will be divided according to clans listed in the Bible. Altogether there are seventy clans.
The Land of Israel in its Biblical proportions (as described by Ezekiel) will be divided up amongst each of the Tribes. Representatives of each clan will be given land in their Tribal regions in the Land of Israel. This land can never be sold, must remain within the Tribe, and is passed on by inheritance.
Families will probably be large and every family will endeavor to have some family members permanently dwelling in the Holy City Territory which is quite large. Land in this area (including agricultural areas) will be set aside for this purpose. Their income will be supplemented by other family members and it may become a custom for dwelling in Jerusalem to be rotated around the family. Perhaps couples in the first years after their marriage will spend time in the Holy City area learning and in spiritual and intellectual invigoration.
 

Exekiel chs. 41 to 45