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(A) In both summer and winter, life-giving streams will flow from Jerusalem, half of them to the Dead Sea in the east and half to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. Then there will be only one Lord who rules as King and whose name is worshiped everywhere on earth.

10-11 (B) From Geba down to Rimmon[a] south of Jerusalem, the entire country will be turned into flatlands, with Jerusalem still towering above. Then the city will be full of people, from Benjamin Gate, Old Gate Place, and Hananel Tower in the northeast part of the city over to Corner Gate in the northwest and down to King's Wine Press in the south. Jerusalem will always be secure and will never again be destroyed.

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  1. 14.10 From Geba down to Rimmon: Approximately the northern and southern borders of Judah before the exile (see 2 Kings 23.8); Geba is about 16 kilometers north of Jerusalem, and Rimmon is about 16 kilometers north of Beersheba.

On that day living water(A) will flow(B) out from Jerusalem, half of it east(C) to the Dead Sea and half of it west to the Mediterranean Sea, in summer and in winter.(D)

The Lord will be king(E) over the whole earth.(F) On that day there will be one Lord, and his name the only name.(G)

10 The whole land, from Geba(H) to Rimmon,(I) south of Jerusalem, will become like the Arabah. But Jerusalem will be raised up(J) high from the Benjamin Gate(K) to the site of the First Gate, to the Corner Gate,(L) and from the Tower of Hananel(M) to the royal winepresses, and will remain in its place.(N)

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