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. 這是……迦南地——本章所詳述的，是以色列人約但河西產業的大致邊界。即便在大衛與所羅門的征服使版圖達到最廣之時，以色列人也從未真正佔有這些邊界以內的全部領土。
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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. 南邊——南面的疆界最難追溯。據最優秀的聖經地理學者所言，此處所定的要點如下：南界的西南角應在尋的曠野與以東交界之處，使南界從死海的盡頭向東延伸，繞過亞克拉濱（意即「蠍子」）的陡峭山脊——一般認為即險峻難行的撒非隘口，它橫越自南方流入約但河的那條溪流——也就是從死海延伸到紅海的亞拉巴大谷。
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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——即古時的汛河，希臘人所稱的里諾科盧拉河，在阿里什稍南，此旱谷在此緩緩下傾、流入地中海
(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. 西邊的交界——這條邊界毫無疑問，因為普世公認它就是地中海；稱之為「大海」，是與希伯來人所知那些小型的內陸海或湖相對而言。
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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——理解此處描述的主要難處，在於我們譯者所稱的何珥山。然而希伯來文 Hor-ha-Hor 一詞，按字義實指「山中之山」或「高聳的雙峰」，從其位置看，除亞瑪拿山
(So 4:8)
之外別無所指——該山屬於利巴嫩大山脈的一支
(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. 哈馬口——那些山脈之間的北部平原，即今日的巴勒貝克谷（參
Nu 13:21）。
西達達——即今日的蘇杜德
(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. 西弗崙——（意即「香氣」）。
哈薩以難——（意即「泉源之村」）；但兩地的位置已不可考。當把「從海岸的迦修斯山、沿利巴嫩北麓、至卡莫撒赫梅爾進入貝卡谷的入口」這條假想的線，視為所指的邊界〔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. 東邊的交界——這條邊界定義十分清楚。位於利巴嫩谷的示番和利比拉，被提及為邊界線，其起點略高於約但河的源頭。安被推測為該河的源頭；東界由此沿着約但河、基尼烈湖（即提比哩亞海）、約但河延伸，最終止於死海。界線畫在河的東面，所含的河與海都歸入西面支派的境內。
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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. 兩個半支派已經在約但河那邊得了地業——所征服的西宏和噩之地，介於亞嫩河與黑門山之間，分給了他們——流便在最南端，迦得在其北，瑪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. ……要分地為業之人的名字——這項在過約但河之前由耶和華作出的任命，既激發了以色列人對征服必成的信心，又防止了此後一切可能危及他們面對當地居民的爭論與不滿。被選的是九個半支派的十位首領，其中一位選自瑪拿西西部，都從屬於大軍事和宗教首領約書亞與以利亞撒。其名字的次序，恰與各支派得地的先後相同，並按弟兄之親排列。
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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.
迦南地的四境。