“I!
Daniel!
Saw in my vision,
By night,
The four winds
Of heaven
Stirring up
The great sea.”
Clearly, the first-person singular indicates that this is no longer a description about Daniel, but Daniel himself writing about his dream or vision. He had this vision at night, as he saw the 4 winds of heaven stirring up the great sea, the Mediterranean Sea.
“Adjoining the territory
Of Gad,
To the south,
The boundary shall run
From Tamar
To the waters
Of Meribath-kadesh.
From there
It shall run
Along the Brook of Egypt
To the Great Sea.”
Somehow the territory of Gad was in the south. Now we have the southern borders of Israel just as it was described in the preceding chapter. This southern border in Numbers, chapter 34 was also vague. Here the border goes almost to Egypt, to the great sea, or the Mediterranean Sea. Tamar was the start of this southeast border. Meribath-kadesh was in the wilderness of Zin, south of the Dead Sea.
“On the west side,
The Great Sea
Shall be the boundary
To a point
Opposite Lebo-hamath.
This shall be the west side.”
The western border was the simplest, the Mediterranean Sea, or the Great Sea. The northwestern border was Lebo-hamath, just mentioned as the northern border.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 