Numbers 34:8

Numbers 34:9 →

From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:

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Interpretation

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 possession of the seed of Israel. This was that little spot of ground, in which alone, for many ages, God was known.

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This thought runs through Numbers 34:6-8.

Numbers 34:6 Numbers 34:7 Numbers 34:8

Glossary

Mount Hor Place: Biblical mountain. Modern identification: Mount Hermon.
Lebo-hamath Place: Biblical settlement. Modern identification: Labweh.
Zedad Place: Side; sloping place, a town in the north of Palestine, near Hamath ( Num. 34:8 ; Ezek. 47:15 ). It has been identified with the ruins of Sudud, between Emesa (Hums) and Baalbec, but that is uncertain. Modern identification: Sadad.