Chapter commentary
Numbers Chapter 34
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Nu 34:1-29.
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Nu 34:1-29.
THE BORDERS OF THE LAND OF CANAAN.
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2. 这……迦南地——本章所给的细节标示了约旦河以西以色列产业的总体边界。以色列人从未真正据有这些边界之内的全部领土，即便在大卫和所罗门的征服使其最为扩展之时也是如此。
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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.
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3-5. 南界——南面的边界线最难追溯。据最优秀的圣经地理学者所言，此处所定的要点如下：南界的西南角应在寻的旷野与以东交界之处；如此南界便从死海的尽头向东延伸，绕过亚克拉滨（意即“蝎子”）的陡峭山脊——据认为是高耸险峻的 Safeh 隘口，该隘口横越自南方流入约旦河的溪流——即从死海延伸到红海的亚拉巴大谷。
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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.
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5. 埃及小河——即古时的西曷溪，希腊人所称的 Rhinocolura，位于 El-Arish 以南不远处，该干谷在此缓缓下倾，通向地中海
(Jos 13:3)。
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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).
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6. 西边——这条边界毫无争议，因各方一致同意那是地中海；相较于希伯来人所知的小型内陆海或湖泊，它被称为“大海”。
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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.
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7-9. 北界——理解此处描述的主要困难，来自我们的译者所称的何珥山。然而希伯来文词语 Hor-ha-Hor 的本意是“山之山”或“高耸的双峰山”，从其位置来看，只能是指亚玛拿山
(So 4:8)，
即黎巴嫩大山脉的一部分
(Jos 13:5)。
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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).
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8. 哈马口——那些山脉之间的北部平原，即今日的巴尔贝克谷 （参
Nu 13:21）。
西达达——被认定为今日的 Sudud
(Eze 47:15)。
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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).
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9. 西弗仑——（意即“香气”）。
哈萨以难——（意即“泉源之村”）；但这些地方已无从查考。“从海岸的卡西乌斯山沿黎巴嫩北麓到贝卡（黎巴嫩谷）入口处的卡莫萨赫尔梅尔，必须被视为所指的边界” [VAN DE VELDE]。
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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].
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10-12. 东界——这条边界十分清楚。示番和利比拉——位于黎巴嫩谷中——被提及为分界线，此线始于约旦河发源处稍上之处。亚因据信就是那条河的源头；由此东界沿约旦河、基尼烈海（提比哩亚湖）、约旦河延伸，最后终于死海。这条线画在河的东边，所包括的湖泊水域则归入西部支派的境内。
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10-12. east border--This is very clearly defined. Shepham and Riblah, which were in the valley of Lebanon, are mentioned as the boundary line, which commenced a little higher than the sources of the Jordan. Ain is supposed to be the source of that river; and thence the eastern boundary extended along the Jordan, the sea of Chinnereth (Lake of Tiberias), the Jordan; and again terminated at the Dead Sea. The line being drawn on the east of the river and the seas included those waters within the territory of the western tribes.
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13-15. 两个支派、半个支派已经在约旦河东得地为业——所征服的西宏和噩之地，介于亚嫩河与黑门山之间，被分给他们——流便在最南端，迦得在其北，玛拿西半支派在最北的部分。
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13-15. The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance on this side Jordan--The conquered territories of Sihon and Og, lying between the Arnon and mount Hermon, were allotted to them--that of Reuben in the most southerly part, Gad north of it, and the half Manasseh in the northernmost portion.
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16-29. 分地为业之人的名字——这由耶和华在过约旦河之前所作的任命，不仅有助于激发以色列人对必能征服之地的信心，也防止了日后在原住民面前可能引发危险的争执与不满。被提名者是代表九个半支派的十位首领，其中一位选自玛拿西的西半部，全都从属于伟大的军事和宗教首领约书亚和以利亚撒。这些名字按照各支派取得那地的确切次序、并按弟兄关系逐一列出。
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16-29. names of the men . . . which shall divide the land--This appointment by the Lord before the Jordan tended not only to animate the Israelites faith in the certainty of the conquest, but to prevent all subsequent dispute and discontent, which might have been dangerous in presence of the natives. The nominees were ten princes for the nine and a half tribes, one of them being selected from the western section of Manasseh, and all subordinate to the great military and ecclesiastical chiefs, Joshua and Eleazar. The names are mentioned in the exact order in which the tribes obtained possession of the land, and according to brotherly connection.
Nu 34:1-29.
迦南地 的边界。