Num 13:21, Jos 13:5-6, 2Sa 8:9, 2Ki 14:25, Jer 39:5, Eze 47:15-20 | TSK | STEP | from the wilderness of Zin.The wilderness of Zin, is different from that called Sin. (Ex 16:1.) The latter was near Egypt, but the former was near Kadesh Barnea, not far from the borders of Canaan. It seems to be the valley mentioned by Burckhardt; which, under the names of El Ghor and El Araba, form a continuation of the valley of the Jordan, extending from the Dead sea to the eastern branch of the Red sea. The whole plain presents to the view an appearance of shifting sands, whose surface is broken by innumerable undulations and low hills. A few talk, tamarisk, and rethem trees grow among the sand hills; but the depth of sand precludes all vegetation of herbage. Rehob.Rehob was a city, afterwards given to the tribe of Asher, situated near mount Lebanon, at the northern extremity of the Promised Land, on the road which leads to Hamath, and west of Laish or Dan: compare Jud 1:31; 18:28; Jos 19:28. Hamath.

Numbers 13:21

from the wilderness of Zin.The wilderness of Zin, is different from that called Sin. (Ex 16:1.) The latter was near Egypt, but the former was near Kadesh Barnea, not far from the borders of Canaan. It seems to be the valley mentioned by Burckhardt; which, under the names of El Ghor and El Araba, form a continuation of the valley of the Jordan, extending from the Dead sea to the eastern branch of the Red sea. The whole plain presents to the view an appearance of shifting sands, whose surface is broken by innumerable undulations and low hills. A few talk, tamarisk, and rethem trees grow among the sand hills; but the depth of sand precludes all vegetation of herbage.

20:1; 27:14; 33:36; 34:3,4; De 32:51; Jos 15:1

Rehob.Rehob was a city, afterwards given to the tribe of Asher, situated near mount Lebanon, at the northern extremity of the Promised Land, on the road which leads to Hamath, and west of Laish or Dan: compare Jud 1:31; 18:28; Jos 19:28.

Hamath.

2Sa 8:9; Am 6:2

Joshua 13:5-6

Giblites.Probably the inhabitants of the country, around Gebal, (Eze 27:9,) or Byblos, as the LXX. render, a city of Phoenicia, situated on the Mediterranean, between Sidon and Tripoli, on the north of the river Adonis. It is now called Gibyle, of Djebail, situated about a day's journey south of Tripoli. Its walls are about a mile in circumference, with square towers about every forty yards' distance. Anciently it must have been a place of no mean extent and of considerable beauty, from the ruins still visible.

Lebanon.

Baal-gad.

under mount.

unto the.

Nu 34:8; Isa 10:9; Am 6:2

Misrephoth-maim.

11:8

them.

23:13; Ge 15:18-21; Ex 23:30,31; Jud 2:21-23

only divide.

14:1,2

2 Samuel 8:9

Toi.

1Ch 18:9

Tou. Hamath.

Am 6:2

2 Kings 14:25

from the entering.

Nu 13:21; 34:7,8; Eze 47:16-18; Am 6:14

unto the sea.

Ge 14:3; De 3:17

Jonah.

Jon 1:1; Mt 12:39,40; 16:4

Jonas. Gath-hepher.

Jos 19:13

Gittah-hepher.

Jeremiah 39:5

Chaldeans'.

32:4,5; 38:18,23; 2Ch 33:11; La 1:3; 4:20

in the plains.

52:8; Jos 4:13; 5:10

Riblah.

52:9,26,27; 2Ki 23:33; 25:6

Hamath.

Nu 13:21; Jos 13:5; Jud 3:3; 2Sa 8:9; 2Ki 17:24

gave judgment upon him. Heb. spake with him judgments.

4:12; Eze 17:15-21

Ezekiel 47:15-20

And this.

17-20

Hethlon.

48:1

Zedad.

Nu 34:8

Hamath.

Nu 13:21; 34:8; 1Ki 8:65; Am 6:14; Zec 9:2

Berothah.

2Sa 8:8

Berothai. Damascus.

Ge 14:15; 1Ch 18:5; Ac 9:2

Hazar-hatticon. or, the middle village. Hauran.The district of Auranitis, now Haouran, S. W. of Damascus.

the border from.The Holy Land, as here described, extended from about 31 degrees to 35 degrees N. lat. and from 34 degrees to 37 degrees E. long.; being bounded on the north by a line drawn from the Mediterranean to Hamath; on the east by Damascus, Hauran, Gilead, and the land of Israel east of Jordan, unto the south of the Dead sea; on the south by Tamar and Kadesh, unto the river of Rhinocorura; and on the west by the Mediterranean sea, from the same point northward "till a man came over against Hamath;" and its length from north to south would be about 280 miles, and its breadth about 150 miles. The ten tribes, as well as Judah and Benjamin, were to be admitted to a full share in this inheritance, which seems to imply, that the future restoration to the promised land is predicted; while the admission of strangers who sojourned in the land to a share in the inheritance, as if native Israelites, plainly intimates the calling of the Gentiles into the church, and their joint inheritance of its privileges, and of the heavenly felicity.

Hazarenan.

48:1; Nu 34:9

from. Heb. from between. from Gilead.

Galead.

Jordan.

Tamar.

strife. or, Meribah.

Nu 20:13; De 32:51; 33:8; Ps 81:7

river. or, valley.

Jos 12:3

southward. or, toward Teman.