²⁸ The southern border of Gad runs from Tamar to the waters of Meribah at Kadesh^[a] and then follows the Brook of Egypt to the Mediterranean.^[b]

² Messengers came and told Jehoshaphat, “A vast army from Edom^[a] is marching against you from beyond the Dead Sea.^[b] They are already at Hazazon-tamar.” (This was another name for En-gedi.)

¹⁰ Fishermen will stand along the shores of the Dead Sea. All the way from En-gedi to En-eglaim, the shores will be covered with nets drying in the sun. Fish of every kind will fill the Dead Sea, just as they fill the Mediterranean.^[a]

¹² Yet the time will come when the Lord will gather them together like handpicked grain. One by one he will gather them—from the Euphrates River^[a] in the east to the Brook of Egypt in the west.

³ and the larger territory of the Canaanites, extending from the stream of Shihor on the border of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron. It includes the territory of the five Philistine rulers of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron. The land of the Avvites

⁵ From Azmon the boundary will turn toward the Brook of Egypt and end at the Mediterranean Sea.^[a]

¹³ This place was known as the waters of Meribah (which means “arguing”) because there the people of Israel argued with the Lord, and there he demonstrated his holiness among them.