Numbers 34 - Introduction
_THE BORDERS OF THE LAND OF CANAAN ARE DESCRIBED; THE PRINCES OF THE TRIBES ARE NAMED, WHO WERE TO DIVIDE THE LAND WITH ELEAZAR AND JOSHUA._ _Before Christ 1452._... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE BORDERS OF THE LAND OF CANAAN ARE DESCRIBED; THE PRINCES OF THE TRIBES ARE NAMED, WHO WERE TO DIVIDE THE LAND WITH ELEAZAR AND JOSHUA._ _Before Christ 1452._... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, SAYING— Having given, in the foregoing chapter, a strict charge to the Israelites, how they should treat the inhabitants of the land of Canaan; the Lord proceeds to describe to them the bounds of the land, as it had been promised to Abraham; thereby to let them know wh... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN YOUR SOUTH QUARTER SHALL BE FROM THE WILDERNESS OF ZIN— Though by the land of Canaan is sometimes understood the whole land of promise possessed by the twelve tribes; yet the signification is here and commonly restrained to the country west of Jordan. Moses himself has made this distinction, De... [ Continue Reading ]
TO THE ASCENT OF AKRABBIM— Or to _Maaleh-akrabbim,_ as it is rendered, Judges 15:3 which signifies, according to Bochart, _the mount of scorpions;_ so called from the multitude of those creatures found there. See Deuteronomy 8:15 and Hieroz. lib. 4: cap. 29. Hence that tract adjoining to Idumea is c... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GREAT SEA— The Jews call the Mediterranean the _great sea,_ in opposition to the lake of Gennezareth, and the Asphaltic lake, called, the one, the sea of _Galilee,_ the other, the Salt or Dead Sea.... [ Continue Reading ]
FROM THE GREAT SEA YE SHALL POINT OUT—MOUNT HOR— The north bounds reached from the north end of the Mediterranean along by the mountains Libanus and Anti-Libanus, as far as the two heads of the river Jordan, taking in the several towns, _Hamath, Zedad,_ &c. By Hor, here, is not to be understood that... [ Continue Reading ]
THE COAST SHALL GO DOWN FROM SHEPHAM TO RIBLAH— The eastern bounds ran from the head of Jordan, along the whole course of that river, taking in the lake Cinnereth, or the sea of Galilee, or Tiberias, and so to the Dead Sea, till it meets with the south bounds, in the borders of Edom. _Shepham_ and _... [ Continue Reading ]
THIS IS THE LAND WHICH YE SHALL INHERIT BY LOT— The land of Canaan, properly so called, was bounded on the south by the high mountains which separated it from Arabia, and screened it from the burning winds that blow from that quarter, after having traversed the desarts; on the west, by the Mediterra... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO MOSES, &C.— To make the foundation of the Hebrew government solid and lasting, the wisdom of their lawgiver declared, as an essential branch of their constitution, that the territory should be equally divided; so that the whole six hundred thousand should each have a full pro... [ Continue Reading ]