Numbers 34:7

7 And this shall be your northern border; from the great sea ye shall measure to yourselves, by the side of the mountain.

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 And the border shall compass from Asemona to the river of Egypt, and the sea shall be the termination.

6 And ye shall have your border on the west, the great sea shall be the boundary: this shall be to you the border on the west.

7 And this shall be your northern border; from the great sea ye shall measure to yourselves, by the side of the mountain.

8 And ye shall measure to yourselves the mountain from mount at the entering in to Emath, and the termination of it shall be the coasts of Saradac.

9 And the border shall go out to Dephrona, and its termination shall be at Arsenain; this shall be your border from the north.

Footnotes

• [a]. Gr. the mountain, the mountain. By this repetition is perhaps meant mount Hor.