East Sea

Fausset's Bible Dictionary

 Joel 2:20;  Ezekiel 47:18. Literally, the front sea, i.e. the Dead Sea, which one looking E. would face; "the utmost (hinder) sea" is the Mediterranean, at such a one's back ( Numbers 34:6).

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Joel 2:20 Ezekiel 47:18 Numbers 34:6

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Ezekiel 47:18Dead Sea

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(with the art. הִיָּם הִקִּדְמֹנַי , Ha-Yam Hak-Kadmoni', The Forward Sea; Sept. Ἡ Θάλασσα Ἡ Πρώτη ) is an epithet used in two passages ( Joel 2:20;  Ezekiel 47:18) of the Dead Sea (See Dead Sea) (q.v.), because it lay on the eastern side of the Holy Land. The Mediterranean Sea, because lying in the opposite direction, was on a like account called the West Sea, or the sea on the western border ( Numbers 34:6;  Joshua 15:12, etc.). (See Sea).