Numbers 34:1
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_COMMAND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND SAY UNTO THEM, WHEN YE COME INTO THE LAND OF CANAAN; (THIS IS THE LAND THAT SHALL FALL UNTO YOU FOR AN INHERITANCE, EVEN THE LAND OF CANAAN WITH THE COASTS THEREOF:)_ This is the land of Canaan. The details given in this chapter mark the general boundary of the... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN YOUR SOUTH QUARTER SHALL BE FROM THE WILDERNESS OF ZIN ALONG BY THE COAST OF EDOM, AND YOUR SOUTH BORDER SHALL BE THE OUTMOST COAST OF THE SALT SEA EASTWARD:_ Your south quarter. The line which bounded it on the south is the most difficult to trace. According to the best Biblical geographers,... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND YOUR BORDER SHALL TURN FROM THE SOUTH TO THE ASCENT OF AKRABBIM, AND PASS ON TO ZIN: AND THE GOING FORTH THEREOF SHALL BE FROM THE SOUTH TO KADESH-BARNEA, AND SHALL GO ON TO HAZAR-ADDAR, AND PASS ON TO AZMON:_ Kadesh-barnea - (see the note at Numbers 13:26). HAZAR-ADDAR, AND ... AZMON. Rowla... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE BORDER SHALL FETCH A COMPASS FROM AZMON UNTO THE RIVER OF EGYPT, AND THE GOINGS OUT OF IT SHALL BE AT THE SEA._ River of Egypt - the ancient brook Sihor, the Rhinocolura of the Greeks, a little to the south of El-Arish, where this wady gently descends towards the Mediterranean (Joshua 13:3... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND AS FOR THE WESTERN BORDER, YE SHALL EVEN HAVE THE GREAT SEA FOR A BORDER: THIS SHALL BE YOUR WEST BORDER._ The western border. There is no uncertainty about this boundary, since it is universally allowed to be the Mediterranean Sea, which is called "the great sea," in comparison with the small... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THIS SHALL BE YOUR NORTH BORDER: FROM THE GREAT SEA YE SHALL POINT OUT FOR YOU MOUNT HOR:_ North border. The principal difficulty in understanding the description here arises from what our translators have called mount Hor. The Hebrew words, however, Hor-ha-Hor, properly signify 'the mountain... [ Continue Reading ]
_FROM MOUNT HOR YE SHALL POINT OUT YOUR BORDER UNTO THE ENTRANCE OF HAMATH; AND THE GOINGS FORTH OF THE BORDER SHALL BE TO ZEDAD:_ Entrance of Hamath - the pass at Kalat-el-Husn, near Hums, the entrance between the Libanus and the Nusairijeh mountains from the west. It is identical with what Ezekie... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE BORDER SHALL GO ON TO ZIPHRON, AND THE GOINGS OUT OF IT SHALL BE AT HAZAR-ENAN: THIS SHALL BE YOUR NORTH BORDER._ Ziphron - sweet odour. HAZAR-ENAN - village of fountains. But the places are unknown. 'The border, therefore, ran from the shore of the Mediterranean across the level tract o... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND YE SHALL POINT OUT YOUR EAST BORDER FROM HAZAR-ENAN TO SHEPHAM:_ East border. This is very clearly defined.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE COAST SHALL GO DOWN FROM SHEPHAM TO RIBLAH, ON THE EAST SIDE OF AIN; AND THE BORDER SHALL DESCEND, AND SHALL REACH UNTO THE SIDE OF THE SEA OF CHINNERETH EASTWARD:_ Shepham ... Riblab - which were in the valley of Lebanon-are mentioned as the boundary line, which commenced a little higher... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE BORDER SHALL GO DOWN TO JORDAN, AND THE GOINGS OUT OF IT SHALL BE AT THE SALT SEA: THIS SHALL BE YOUR LAND WITH THE COASTS THEREOF ROUND ABOUT._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE TWO TRIBES AND THE HALF TRIBE HAVE RECEIVED THEIR INHERITANCE ON THIS SIDE JORDAN NEAR JERICHO EASTWARD, TOWARD THE SUNRISING._ The two tribes and the half tribe have received. The conquered territories of Sihon and Og, lying between the Arnon and mount Hermon, were allotted to them-that of Re... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING,_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THESE ARE THE NAMES OF THE MEN WHICH SHALL DIVIDE THE LAND UNTO YOU: ELEAZAR THE PRIEST, AND JOSHUA THE SON OF NUN._ Names of the men which shall divide the land. This appointment by the Lord before the passage of the Jordan tended not only to animate the Israelites' faith in the certainty of the... [ Continue Reading ]
_THESE ARE THEY WHOM THE LORD COMMANDED TO DIVIDE THE INHERITANCE UNTO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN THE LAND OF CANAAN._ The Lord commanded to divide the inheritance ... in the land of Canaan. The boundaries of the promised land are fully stated in the following passages of Scripture besides the prese... [ Continue Reading ]