Numbers 34:7

7 This will be your northern border: From the Mediterranean Sea draw a line to Mount Hor;^[a]

Numbers 34:7 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 34:7

And this shall be your northern border
What follows:

from the great sea ye shall point out for you Mount Hor;
not that Mount Hor on which Aaron died, for that was on the southern border of the land; but rather Mount Herman, which is said to be unto the entering into Hamath, ( Joshua 13:5 ) as this Mount Hor is in the following verse; or some part of Mount Lebanon might be so called, which was the northern border of the land: the Targum of Jonathan calls it Umanus; and the Jerusalem Targum, Manus or Taurus Umanus, the Mountain Umanus, which divided Syria and Cilicia; it is joined with Lebanon by Josephus ^F16, and with that and Carmel by Aelianus ^F17.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 2.
F17 De Animal. l. 5. c. 56.

Numbers 34:7 In-Context

5 The border will turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, where it will end at the Mediterranean Sea.

6 Your western border will be the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea; this will be your western border.

7 This will be your northern border: From the Mediterranean Sea draw a line to Mount Hor;

8 from Mount Hor draw a line to the entrance of Hamath, and the border will reach Zedad.

9 Then the border will go to Ziphron and end at Hazar-enan. This will be your northern border.

Footnotes

• [a] In Lebanon; Nm 20:22-28; 33:37-56