Numbers 34 - Introduction
_A.M. 2552. B.C. 1452._ Directions concerning the bounds of Canaan, Numbers 34:1. Concerning the division of it, Numbers 34:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
_A.M. 2552. B.C. 1452._ Directions concerning the bounds of Canaan, Numbers 34:1. Concerning the division of it, Numbers 34:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
God here directs Moses, and he is ordered to direct Israel, concerning the line by which the land of Canaan was to be bounded on all sides. Its limits, or bounds, are described, 1st, To guide and bound them in their wars and conquests, that they might not seek the enlargement of their empire, after... [ Continue Reading ]
_Your south quarter_ Which is here described from east to west by divers windings and turnings, by reason of the mountains and rivers. Though Canaan itself was a pleasant land, as it is termed Daniel 8:9, yet it butted upon wildernesses and seas, and was surrounded with divers melancholy prospects.... [ Continue Reading ]
_From the south to Kadesh-barnea_ Rather, shall extend on the south to Kadesh-barnea westward. _Unto the river of Egypt_ That is, the Nile. Not that the Jews did really extend their territories so far as the Nile; but thus far they were allowed to extend them. _The goings out of it shall be at the s... [ Continue Reading ]
_Mount Hor_ Not that Hor where Aaron died, which was southward, and bordering upon Edom, but another mountain, probably Hermon, or some part of mount Lebanon, which is elsewhere mentioned as the northern border of the land, and which, in regard of divers parts, or by divers people, is called by dive... [ Continue Reading ]
_Your east border_ This ran from the head of Jordan along the course of that river, taking in the lake of Gennesareth, called in the New Testament, _the sea of Galilee_, and the _sea of Tiberias_, (John 6:1,) and here, the sea of _Chinnereth_, or _Cinnereth_, from the Hebrew, _cinnor_, a harp, the f... [ Continue Reading ]
_This is the land which ye shall inherit_ This is repeated, that they might not extend their desires beyond the bounds of God's gracious grant to them. And, by the foregoing description, it appears that they were placed in a very pleasant land, sheltered from the sultry air of the deserts of Arabia... [ Continue Reading ]
_These are the men that shall divide the land_ Although the division of the land was to be made by lot, (Numbers 34:13,) yet it was proper there should be some persons appointed to oversee this business, and to take care that there should be no fraud nor quarrels in the drawing of the lots. The mana... [ Continue Reading ]
_Of the tribe of Judah_ The tribes are not set down here in the same order that was observed at their first and second numbering, (Numbers 1:5; Numbers 26:5,) but according to the situation in which they were afterward placed in the land of Canaan; as if Moses had foreseen what tribes should be next... [ Continue Reading ]