Numbers 34:9

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

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 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.

10 And ye shall measure to yourselves the eastern border from Arsenain to Sepphamar.

11 And the border shall go down from Sepphamar to Bela eastward to the fountains, and the border shall go down from Bela behind the sea Chenereth eastward.