Numbers 34:9

9 Then the border will go to Ziphron and end at Hazar-enan.^[a] This will 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 will be your northern border: From the Mediterranean Sea draw a line to Mount Hor;

8 from Mount Hor draw a line to the entrance of Hamath, and the border will reach Zedad.

9 Then the border will go to Ziphron and end at Hazar-enan. This will be your northern border.

10 For your eastern border, draw a line from Hazar-enan to Shepham.

11 The border will go down from Shepham to Riblah east of Ain. It will continue down and reach the eastern slope of the Sea of Chinnereth.

Footnotes

• [a]. Nm 34:10; Ezk 47:17; 48:1