Numbers 34:2-12

2 “Command the Israelites and say to them: ‘When you enter Canaan, the land that will be allotted to you as an inheritance is to have these boundaries:

3 “ ‘Your southern side will include some of the Desert of Zin along the border of Edom. Your southern boundary will start in the east from the southern end of the Dead Sea,

4 cross south of Scorpion Pass, continue on to Zin and go south of Kadesh Barnea. Then it will go to Hazar Addar and over to Azmon,

5 where it will turn, join the Wadi of Egypt and end at the Mediterranean Sea.

6 “ ‘Your western boundary will be the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. This will be your boundary on the west.

7 “ ‘For your northern boundary, run a line from the Mediterranean Sea to Mount Hor

8 and from Mount Hor to Lebo Hamath. Then the boundary will go to Zedad,

9 continue to Ziphron and end at Hazar Enan. This will be your boundary on the north.

10 “ ‘For your eastern boundary, run a line from Hazar Enan to Shepham.

11 The boundary will go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Galilee.^[a]

12 Then the boundary will go down along the Jordan and end at the Dead Sea. “ ‘This will be your land, with its boundaries on every side.’ ”

Numbers 34:2-12 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 34

In this chapter the bounds and borders of the land Canaan are described, according to the direction of the Lord to Moses, Nu 34:1,2, the south border, Nu 34:3-5, the western border, Nu 34:6, the north border, Nu 34:7-9, the east border, Nu 34:10-12, which is ordered to be divided by lot to the nine tribes and a half, two tribes and a half having received their inheritance on the other side Jordan, Nu 34:13-15, and the persons are nominated to divide the land, Eleazar and Joshua, with one prince out of every tribe, and who are mentioned by name, Nu 34:16-29.

Cross References

• 1. S Numbers 33:51
• 2. Genesis 17:8; Deuteronomy 1:7-8; Joshua 23:4; Psalms 78:54-55; Psalms 105:11
• 3. Ezekiel 47:15
• 4. Numbers 13:21; Joshua 15:1-3
• 5. S Genesis 14:3
• 6. Joshua 15:3; Judges 1:36
• 7. Numbers 32:8
• 8. Joshua 15:4
• 9. Genesis 15:18; Joshua 15:4
• 10. Joshua 1:4; Joshua 9:1; Joshua 15:12,47; Joshua 23:4; Ezekiel 47:10,15; Ezekiel 48:28
• 11. Ezekiel 47:19-20
• 12. Ezekiel 47:15-17
• 13. S Numbers 20:22
• 14. Numbers 13:21; Joshua 13:5
• 15. Joshua 15:5
• 16. 2 Kings 23:33; 2 Kings 25:6,21; Jeremiah 39:5; Jeremiah 52:9,27
• 17. Joshua 15:32; Joshua 21:16; 1 Chronicles 4:32
• 18. Deuteronomy 3:17; Joshua 11:2; Joshua 13:27

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew "Kinnereth"