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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871). CCEL expanded electronic edition states it is in the public domain.
Numbers Chapter 34 1 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Numbers Chapter 34 2 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
2. this is the . . . land of Canaan--The details given in this chapter mark the general boundary of the inheritance of Israel west of the Jordan. The Israelites never actually possessed all the territory comprised within these boundaries, even when it was most extended by the conquests of David and Solomon.
Numbers Chapter 34 3 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
3-5. your south quarter--The line which bounded it on the south is the most difficult to trace. According to the best biblical geographers, the leading points here defined are as follows: The southwest angle of the southern boundary should be where the wilderness of Zin touches the border of Edom, so that the southern boundary should extend eastward from the extremity of the Dead Sea, wind around the precipitous ridge of Akrabbim ("scorpions"), thought to be the high and difficult Pass of Safeh, which crosses the stream that flows from the south into the Jordan--that is, the great valley of the Arabah, reaching from the Dead to the Red Sea.
Numbers Chapter 34 5 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
5. 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
(Jos 13:3).
Numbers Chapter 34 6 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
6. the western border--There is no uncertainty about this boundary, as it is universally allowed to be the Mediterranean, which is called "the great sea" in comparison with the small inland seas or lakes known to the Hebrews.
Numbers Chapter 34 7 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
7-9. 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 of the mountain," or "the high double mountain," which, from the situation, can mean nothing else than the mountain Amana
(So 4:8),
a member of the great Lebanon range
(Jos 13:5).
Numbers Chapter 34 8 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
8. entrance of Hamath--The northern plain between those mountain ranges, now the valley of Balbeck (see on
Nu 13:21).
Zedad--identified as the present Sudud
(Eze 47:15).
Numbers Chapter 34 9 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
9. Ziphron--("sweet odor").
Hazar-enan--("village of fountains"); but the places are unknown. "An imaginary line from mount Cassius, on the coast along the northern base of Lebanon to the entering into the Bekaa (Valley of Lebanon) at the Kamosa Hermel," must be regarded as the frontier that is meant [VAN DE VELDE].
Nu 34:1-29.
THE BORDERS OF THE LAND OF CANAAN.