“The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook, to the great sea. This is the south side southward.
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“The south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth Kadesh, to the brook, to the great sea. This is the south side southward.
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And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.
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And the south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth-kadesh, to the Brook, unto the Great Sea. This is the south side southward.
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- Deuteronomy 32:51 because you trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn’t uphold my holiness among the children of Israel.
- Ezekiel 48:28 “By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook, to the great sea.
- Numbers 20:13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
- Numbers 34:5 The border shall turn about from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the sea.
- Deuteronomy 33:8 About Levi he said, “Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah.
- Psalms 81:7 You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah.”
- Isaiah 27:12 It will happen in that day that Yahweh will thresh from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt; and you will be gathered one by one, children of Israel.
- Joshua 12:3 and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth Jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, strife.
Or, strife.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Eze 47:19 And the south side southward, from Tamar…
Eze 47:19 And the south side southward, from Tamar [even] to the waters of strife [in] Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And [this is] the south side southward.
Ver. 19. From Tamar.] Hazazon Tamar, {a} which was near the sea of Sodom. {Eze 47:10}
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In Kadesh.] Not in Rephidim. {Exo 17:7}
{a} This was Palmyra, afterwards Adrianople.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain The south side shall begin at that point which…
The south side shall begin at that point which first vergeth southward from the east sea toward Tamar, which is near En-gedi, and known by the addition Hazezon-tamar; and so some place the lake of Sodom, that the greatest part will be this southern frontier.
To the waters of strife; from Tamar a line drawn to Meribah in Kadesh, of which Num 20:13; 27:14.
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The river, called the river of Egypt, was on the south of Judah, and lay directly in the way to Egypt from Jerusalem.
To the great sea; to the south-west part of the Mediterranean Sea near Gaza. This is the southern frontier.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the south side southward from Tamar,.... Not Jericho,…
And the south side southward from Tamar,.... Not Jericho, as the Targum, Jarchi, and Kimchi, called by this name from the palm trees which grew near it; according to Jerom, this is Palmyra, so called for the same reason; but it is rather Engedi, called Hazazontamar, Ch2 20:2, the line of the southern border began here, and went on,
even to the waters of strife in Kadesh; to the waters of Meribah in Kadesh; so called, from the strivings of the children of Israel with the Lord there, Num 20:1,
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the river to the great sea; it proceeded by the river of Egypt, the river Sihor, the Nile, which is before Egypt, Jos 13:3 and so on to the Mediterranean sea:
and this is the south side southward; the south side of the land, and the southern border of it.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain The river - Called the river of Egypt, lay…
The river - Called the river of Egypt, lay directly in the way to Egypt from Jerusalem. The great sea - To the southwest part of the Mediterranean sea near Gaza.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 19. Tamar] Called Hazazon Tamar, or Engedi, 2Ch…
Verse 19. Tamar] Called Hazazon Tamar, or Engedi, 2Ch 20:2.
The river] Besor, which runs into the sea near Gaza.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Eze 47:19. And the south side southward — The…
Eze 47:19. And the south side southward — The southern frontier shall be from En-gedi, called Hazazon-tamar, 2Ch 20:2, to the waters of Meribah, or strife, in Kadesh, in the south limit of Judah, and from thence to the river of Egypt, namely, Besor, which runs into the sea not far from Gaza.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The south border (compare Num 34:4) commences with “Tamar,”…
The south border (compare Num 34:4) commences with “Tamar,” probably a village near the southern end of the Dead Sea. The word means “palm-tree;” and is given to more than one city in the holy land.
The river to the great sea - literally, “riverward to the great sea.” By the “river” is meant the torrent-stream entering the Mediterranean near “Rhinocolura” (El Arish).
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Thamar. Engaddi is sometimes understood: but it lay near…
Thamar. Engaddi is sometimes understood: but it lay near Jericho, as this (Calmet) Thamar was to the south of the Dead Sea. (Ptolemy) --- Torrent, Besor. (Haydock)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Tamar--not Tadmor in the desert, but Tamar, the last…
Tamar--not Tadmor in the desert, but Tamar, the last town of Judea, by the Dead Sea. Meaning "palm tree"; so called from palm trees abounding near it.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 19. “And the south side southward shall be from…
19. “And the south side southward shall be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meriboth-kadesh, to the brook of Egypt, unto the great sea (R.V.; compare Num_27:14; Num_34:3-5; Jos_15:1-4). The Wady-el-Arish was called the “brook of Egypt.” (See Num_34:5, and map facing page 232.)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 19. The southern boundary. Read: “and the southside southward:…
19. The southern boundary. Read: “and the southside southward: from Tamar on to the waters of Meriboth-Kadesh, to the brook (of Egypt), and unto the great sea; this is the south side southward.” The delimitation on the S. is more fully described Num_34:3-5; Jos_15:1-4. There Kadesh is called Kadesh-Barnea, here Meriboth Kadesh (elsewhere Meribah), i.e. waters of strife of Kadesh, Num_27:14. The brook of Egypt is the Wady el Arish. The line striking this brook follows its course to the sea.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (19) From Tamar even to the waters of strife.—The…
(19) From Tamar even to the waters of strife.—The southern border, as given in Num_34:3-5, is identical with that described here, as far as the two can be compared. Tamar has been identified with Kurnub, a ruined village some twenty-five miles west of the southern end of the Dead Sea; but as the old boundary certainly went far to the south of this and as the next place mentioned is Kadesh, about thirty miles nearly south from the Dead Sea, the Tamar here meant is more probably some place not yet identified. Kadesh, known from the “waters of strife” as Meribah (Num_20:3-14), is called Kadesh-barnea in Num_34:4. It has been identified by Robinson with the Ain-el-Weibeh, about thirty miles slightly west of south from the Dead Sea. Its exact situation, however, is somewhat doubtful.
The river to the great sea.—Literally, riverward to the great sea. From Kadesh the boundary was to strike across the mountainous desert to what is often called in Scripture “the river of Egypt,” and was anciently known as the Rhinocolura, now called the Wady-el-Arish. It followed this to the Mediterranean. The length of the southern boundary, following the curve of the Rhinocolura, must have been nearly 100 miles, or about eighty-seven miles from east to west.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain The south boundary. This should begin where the east…
The south boundary. This should begin where the east boundary terminated, viz. at Tamar, "Palm tree." Different from Hazezon-Tamar, or Engedi (ver. 10; 2Ch_20:2) which lay too far up the west side of the sea, Tamar can hardly be identified either with the Tamar 1Ki_9:18 near Tadmor in the wilderness, or with the Thamara (Qamara) of Eusebius between Hebron and Elath, supposed by Robinson ("Bibl. Rea," it 616, 622) to he Kurnub, six hours south of Milh, towards the pass of Es-Sufah, since this was too distant from the Dead Sea The most plausible conjecture is that Tamar was "a village near the southern end of the Dead Sea" (Currey). Proceeding westward, the southern boundary should reach to the waters of strife in Kadesh; better, to the waters of Meribotk Kadesh. These were in the Desert of Sin, near Kadesh-Barnea, (Num_20:1-13) which, again, was on the road from Hebron to Egypt. (Gen_16:14) The exact site, however, of Kadesh-Barnea is matter of dispute; Rowland and Keil find it in the spring Ain Kades, at the north-west corner of the mountain-land of Azazimeh, which stretches on the south of Palestine from the south-south-west to the north-north-east, and forms the watershed Between the Mediterranean and the Arabah valley. Delitzsch and Conder seek it in the neighborhood of the Wady-el-Jemen, on the south-east side of the above watershed, and on the road from Mount Hot. Robinson ("Bibl. Rea," 2:582) discovers it in Ain-el-Weibeh, not far from Petra. A writer (Sin., Smend?) in Riehm ("Handworterbuch des Biblischen Alterthums," art. "Kades") pleads for a site on the west side of the Azazimeh plateau, and in the vicinity of the road by Shur to Egypt. Leaving Kadesh, the boundary should continue to the river, or, brook, of Egypt, and thence extend to the great sea, or Mediterranean. The punctuation of hl; j) makes the word signify "lot," must be changed into hl; jn, so as to mean "river," since the reference manifestly is to the torrent of Egypt, the Wady-el-Arish , on the borders of Palestine and Egypt, which enters the Mediterranean near Rhinocorura (JRinokoroura). in Num_34:5 it is called the river of Egypt. And this is the south side southward (see on ver. 17). The correspondence between this line and that of the earlier chart (Num_34:4, Num_34:5) is once more apparent.
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