Verse Numbers 34:12. _THE BORDER SHALL GO DOWN TO JORDAN_] This river is famous both in the Old and New Testaments. It takes its rise at the foot of Mount Libanus, passes through the sea of _Chinnere...
Shepham, the first point after Hazar-enan, is unknown. The name Riblah is by some read Har-bel, i. e., “the Mountain of Bel;” the Har-baal-Hermon of Judges 3:3. No more striking landmark could be set...
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...
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
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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...
I have not interrupted the Reader by dividing these verses, because I would have him first read over attentively the whole account of the extent of the promised land; and then look over it again, to r...
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...
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 THE BORDER SHALL GO DOWN TO JORDAN,.... A well known river to the east of the land of Canaan: AND THE GOINGS OUT OF IT SHALL BE AT THE SALT SEA; the sea of Sodom; and though all sea water is gene...
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. Ver. 12. _It shall be at the salt sea._] That i...
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 the border, skirting the lake on the eastern side, SHALL GO DOWN TO JORDAN, AND THE GOINGS OUT OF IT SHALL BE AT THE SALT SEA, the Dead Sea, both the Sea of Galilee and the Jordan thus being inclu...
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...
DOWN TO JORDAN, i.e. all along the river of Jordan, even to the end of it, which is the eastern border....
Numbers 34:12 border H1366 down H3381 (H8804) Jordan H3383 end H8444 Salt H4417 Sea H3220 land H776 surrounding...
“ And you shall mark out your east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham; and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and shall reach to the...
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 34:10 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...
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...
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...