Numbers 34 Footnotes

34:3-12 The borders represent the limits of the land of Canaan during the Late Bronze Age (1550–1200 BC) and were the ideal for the national boundaries. Critics suggest these borders represent a later extent of Israel’s dominion. Even under David and Solomon, however, these limits were not fully realized, even though such regions as Tyre and Sidon (in Lebanon) were allied with Israel through trade agreements. After the tenth century BC the extent of Israelite territory never approached the ideal.