“ ‘This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall mark out for yourselves Mount Hor.
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“ ‘This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall mark out for yourselves Mount Hor.
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And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor:
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And this shall be your north border: from the Great Sea ye shall mark out your line unto mount Hor;
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- Numbers 33:37 They traveled from Kadesh, and encamped in Mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
- Numbers 34:3 then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the side of Edom, and your south border shall be from the end of the Salt Sea eastward.
- Numbers 34:6 “ ‘For the western border, you shall have the great sea and its border. This shall be your west border.
- Numbers 34:9-10 Then the border shall go to Ziphron, and it shall end at Hazar Enan. This shall be your north border. “ ‘You shall mark out your east border from Hazar Enan to Shepham.
- Ezekiel 47:15-17 “This shall be the border of the land: “On the north side, from the great sea, by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad; Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer Hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran. The border from the sea, shall be Hazar Enon at the border of Damascus; and on the north northward is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Which is a mountain near Tyre and Sidon, and…
Which is a mountain near Tyre and Sidon, and not that Hor in the wilderness where Aaron died.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Not that Hor where Aaron died, Num 20:23, which…
Not that Hor where Aaron died, Num 20:23, which was southward, and bordering upon Edom, Num 33:37,38, and therefore could not be their northern border; but another mountain, and, as it is conceived, the mountain of Libanus, which is elsewhere mentioned as the northern border of the land, and which, in regard of divers parts, or by divers people, is called by divers names, as Sirion and Shenir, Deu 3:9, and Sion, Deu 4:48, and Hermon, Jos 13:5, and here Hor, which signifies a mountain, and this may be called so by way of eminency. Certain it is, that as Hor here, so Hemon, Jos 13:5, is joined with the entrance of Hamath, which makes it probable they are one and the same place.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And this shall be your northern border,.... What follows:
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, Jos 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 (p), and with that and Carmel by Aelianus (q).
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(p) Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 2. (q) De Animal. l. 5. c. 56.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Hor - Not that Hor where Aaron died, which…
Hor - Not that Hor where Aaron died, which was southward, and bordering upon Edom, but another mountain, and, as it is conceived, the mountain of Libanus, which is elsewhere mentioned as the northern border of the land, and which, in regard of divers parts, or by divers people, is called by divers names, and here Hor, which signifies a mountain, by way of eminency.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Num 34:7-8. Mount Hor — Not that Hor where…
Num 34:7-8. Mount Hor — Not that Hor where Aaron died, which was southward, and bordering upon Edom, but another mountain, probably Hermon, or some part of mount Lebanon, which is elsewhere mentioned as the northern border of the land, and which, in regard of divers parts, or by divers people, is called by divers names, and here Hor, which signifies a mountain, by way of eminence. Accordingly we find Lebanon and Hermon joined with the entrance of Hamath, (Jos 13:5,) as mount Hor is here.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The northern border. On the “Mount Hor,” compare Num…
The northern border. On the “Mount Hor,” compare Num 20:22 note. Here the name denotes the whole western crest of Mount Lebanon, 80 miles in length, commencing east of Zidon, and terminating with the point immediately above the entrance of Hamath (compare Num 13:21). The extreme point in the northern border of the land was the city of Zedad (Sadad), about 30 miles east of the entrance of Hamath. Hence, the border turned back southwestward to Ziphron (Zifran), about 40 miles northeast of Damascus. Hazar-enan may be conjecturally identified with Ayun ed-Dara, a fountain situate in the very heart of the great central chain of Antilibanus.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain The most high mountain. Libanus. (Challoner) --- Hebrew, "the…
The most high mountain. Libanus. (Challoner) --- Hebrew, "the mountain of the mountain, or of Hor." Some understand Mount Casius, Hermon, Taurus, or Amanus; which last lies on the confines of Cilicia, and hence the Rabbins draw a line by the straits of Gibraltar to Pelusium, so as to comprise all the islands and the waters of the Mediterranean. (Selden, Marc. Claus. i. 6.) But Grotius denies that the sea can be claimed by any one, nor was it, even for fishing, says he, before the days of Justinian. (Jur. ii. 2, 3.) (Calmet) --- At any rate, Moses here seems to mean the northern limits from the point of the Mediterranean, where Libanus is situated, across the country eastward to Emath, and as far as the village of Enan, ver. 9. (Haydock)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain north border--The principal difficulty in understanding the description here…
north border--The principal difficulty in understanding the description here arises from what our translators have called mount Hor. The Hebrew words, however, Hor-ha-Hor, properly signify "the mountain of the mountain," or "the high double mountain," which, from the situation, can mean nothing else than the mountain Amana (Sol 4:8), a member of the great Lebanon range (Jos 13:5).
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 7-9. Your north border — This cannot be accurately…
7-9. Your north border — This cannot be accurately identified, since the whole topography is in a most unsatisfactory state as regards the comprehension of the original record and knowledge of the ground, all the places being now unknown except Hamath, which must mean the kingdom of Hamath, and not Hamath, its capital city, modern Hamah, called Epiphania by the Greeks and Romans. Num_13:21, note.
Mount Hor — This is not to be confounded with the Mount Hor of the Seir range. Num_20:22, note. This Mount Hor is spoken of only here. Its identification is one of the puzzles of sacred geography. Some suppose that the great chain of Lebanon itself is meant, which is clearly the natural northern boundary of Palestine. Knobel moves the boundary still farther north, and identifies Mount Hor with Mons Casius, southwest of Antioch, on the Orontes. Robinson agrees with him in recognising this Zedad in Zadad, a Syriac Christian village of three thousand inhabitants, to the southeast of Hunes, on the east of the road from Damascus to Hunes.
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Wetstein and Knobel suppose that Ziphron is the same as a ruined city, Zifran, of which we have no accurate information except that it is fourteen hours to the northeast of Damascus, near to the road from Palmyra. The location of Hazar-enan is in dispute; some contending for Centum Putea, twenty-seven miles northwest of Palmyra, and others showing that it is impossible that this could be a border town.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 7. mount Hor] This is, of course, quite distinct…
7. mount Hor] This is, of course, quite distinct from the mountain of the same name in the neighbourhood of Edom (Num_20:22 ff., Num_33:38).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (7) Mount Hor.—It has been thought by some that…
(7) Mount Hor.—It has been thought by some that Hermon is the mountain to which reference is made. But, as Ritter has observed (“Comparative Geography of Palestine,” 3, p. 176), “Hermon stands too far eastward to answer the conditions of the problem,” and he thinks that some peak very near the Mediterranean must be meant. Von Raumer considers that it was probably one of the peaks belonging to the Lebanon range, and discernible from Sidon. (Ib.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Ye shall point out for you, i.e., ye shall…
Ye shall point out for you, i.e., ye shall observe and make for, in tracing the boundary. Septuagint, katametrhsete ... para . Mount Hor. Not of course the Mount Hor on which Aaron died, but another far to the north, probably in Lebanon. The Hebrew rhh rho, which the Septuagint had rendered Wv to orov in Nu 20, it renders here to orov to orov , taking rho as simply another form rh, as it probably is. Her Ha-har is therefore equivalent to the English "Mount Mountain;" and just as there are many "Avon rivers" on the English maps, so there were probably many mountains locally known among the Jews as Hor Ha-hat. We do not know what peak this was, although it must have been one clearly distinguishable from the sea. There is, however, no reason whatever for supposing (contrary to the analogy of all such names, and of the other Mount Hor) that it included the whole range of Lebanon proper.
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Yahweh continues telling Moses where the borders are for the land that he is giving to the Israelites. (See: How to Translate Names)
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