Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Numbers 34:13
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Verse Numbers 34:13. _THIS IS THE LAND WHICH YE SHALL INHERIT BY LOT_] Much of what is said concerning this land is peculiarly emphatic. It is a land that contains a multitude of advantages in its cl...
10. INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING THE CONQUEST AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE LAND Chapter S 33:50-34 _ 1. Command to drive out the inhabitants of the land (Numbers 33:50)_ 2. The division of the land (Number...
NUMBERS 34:1 (from P). THE BOUNDARIES OF ISRAEL'S POSSESSIONS IN CANAAN. These, as here set forth, are ideal rather than actual, since the area described never wholly belonged to Israel. The S. border...
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...
B. BORDERS OF CANAAN ESTABLISHED (NUMBERS 34:1-15) TEXT Numbers 34:1. And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2. Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan...
_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....
THE BOUNDARIES OF THE LAND OF PROMISE On the land and the tribes inhabiting it see on Numbers 13:21. 3-5. The southern border: this started from the S. extremity of the Dead Sea, here called the Salt...
THE OLD TESTAMENT BOOK OF NUMBERS IN THE DESERT NUMBERS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 34 *ISRAEL’S BORDERS – NUMBERS 34:1-15 V1 The *LORD spoke to Moses. He said, V2 ‘Tell the *Israelite
וַ יְצַ֣ו מֹשֶׁ֔ה אֶת ־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵ
THE WAY AND THE LOT Numbers 33:1; Numbers 34:1 1. THE itinerary of Numbers 33:1 is one of the passages definitely ascribed to Moses. It opens with the departure from Rameses in Egypt on the morrow af...
THE BORDERS OF THE PROMISED LAND Numbers 34:1 Here are set out the borders of the Promised Land, which were never fully reached in the days of Israel's occupation, except perhaps for one brief period...
One of the terms of the charge already considered, that the people should possess the land and that it should be divided equitably, was now enlarged upon. The division was to be according to divine ar...
It is worthy remark, that the whole division is of GOD'S appointing. Yes! he appoints now, to the whole tribes, and to the half tribes of his people, their habitations here. And frequently, like Canaa...
The successes given to the children of Israel alarmed some of their neighbours, more particularly Moab; and this gives occasion for a striking episode in the history which brought to issue as solemn a...
13._And Moses commanded the children of Israel. _Though this is a repetition, yet it is not a superfluous one; for he contrasts the new allotment of the nine tribes and a half with the former grant; ...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 34, 35, AND 36. Finally, God takes care of His people in all respects; He marks the limits of the country they were to enjoy. He settles the taking possessio...
AND MOSES COMMANDED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, SAYING,.... Strictly enjoining them to observe what he was about to say to them: THIS IS THE LAND WHICH YE SHALL INHERIT BY LOT; as above described and bou...
_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 th...
1 The borders of the land. 16 The names of the men which shall diuide the land. 1 AND the LORD spake vnto Moses, saying, 2 Command the children of Israel, and say vnto them, When ye come into the l...
And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the Lord commanded to give unto the nine tribes and to the half tribe;...
THE BOUNDARIES OF CANAAN...
BOUNDARIES OF ISRAEL'S INHERITANCE (vs.1-15) The Lord now defines the boundaries of the land that Israel was to inherit at the time. For the area then was made smaller than it will be in Millennium,...
1-15 Canaan was of small extent; as it is here bounded, it is but about 160 miles in length, and about 50 in breadth; yet this was the country promised to the father of the faithful, and the possessi...
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‘And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, “This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which Yahweh has commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half-tribe; for the tribe of th...
CONTENTS: Preparations to enter the land. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Eleazar, Joshua, prince of each tribe. CONCLUSION: God sets bounds to our lot; let us therefore set bounds to our desires and bring...
Numbers 34:2. _This is the land._ It was proper to fix the line of the boundaries to prevent war for aggrandizement. It reached from the river of Egypt to the river Euphrates, as in Joshua 1., and mou...
_When ye come into the land of Canaan._ THE PROMISED LAND I. The boundaries of this land were determined by God. 1. A reason for contentment. 2. A rebuke of selfish greed, whether on the part of i...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 34:1 God promised Abraham that his descendants would be given “all the land of Canaan” (Genesis 17:8). Here the Lord describes the borders of the Promised Land. The boundary is...
NUMBERS—NOTE ON NUMBERS 34:10 The eastern border of the Promised Land is the hardest to define. From HAZAR-ENAN it apparently runs southward along the edge of the desert before swinging westward to th...
CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES This chapter consists of two portions: (1) the boundaries of the Promised Land (Numbers 34:1), and (2) the names of the persons who were appointed to distribute the l...
So as we move into chapter thirty-four, we find the borders of the land described now. In the south, the border of the land was to go down into the Sinai as far as Kadesh Barnea the place where they h...
Joshua 14:1; Joshua 14:2; Numbers 34:1...