Numbers 34:9

9 Then the border shall extend to Ziphron, and its limit shall be at ¹Hazar-enan. This shall be your northern border.

Numbers 34:9 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 34:9

And the border shall go on to Ziphron
Which in the Jerusalem Targum is called Zapherin; and Jerom ^F19 says, that in his time this city was called Zephyrium, a town in Cilicia; but this seems to be at too great a distance:

and the goings out of it shall be at Hazarenan;
which was the utmost of the northern border, and so it is in ( Ezekiel 47:17 ) and there called the border of Damascus: Reland ^F20 takes it to be the same with Enhazor, a city in the tribe of Naphtali, ( Joshua 19:37 ) , the words only inverted:

this shall be your northern border:
from the Mediterranean sea to Hazarenan in Naphtali.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 Comment. in ver. 15.
F20 Palestin. lllustrat. par. 1. l. 1. p. 123.

Numbers 34:9 In-Context

7 "This shall be your northern border: from the Great Sea you shall draw a line to Mount Hor.

8 From Mount Hor you shall draw a line to Lebo-hamath, and the limit of the border shall be at Zedad.

9 Then the border shall extend to Ziphron, and its limit shall be at Hazar-enan. This shall be your northern border.

10 "You shall draw a line for your eastern border from Hazar-enan to Shepham.

11 And the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain. And the border shall go down and reach to the shoulder of the Sea of Chinnereth on the east.

Cross References

• 1. Ezekiel 47:17