Numbers 34:9

continue to Ziphron, and end at Hazar-enan. This will be your boundary on the north.

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KJV

And the border shall go on to Ziphron, and the goings out of it shall be at Hazar–enan: this shall be your north border.

ASV

and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the goings out thereof shall be at Hazar-enan: this shall be your north border.

YLT

and the border hath gone out to Ziphron, and its outgoings have been at Hazar-Enan; this is to you the north border.

DBT

and the border shall go to Ziphron, and shall end at Hazar-enan. This shall be your north border.

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And the border shall go on to Ziphron,....

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

Related commentary

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 (So 4:8), a member of the great Lebanon range (Jos 13:5).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Hazar-enan--("village of fountains"); but the places are unknown. "An imaginary line from mount Cassius, on the coast along the northern base of Lebanon to the entering into the Bekaa (Valley of Lebanon) at the Kamosa Hermel," must be regarded as the frontier that is meant [VAN DE VELDE].

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Ezekiel 47:17
So the border will run from the Sea to Hazar-enan, along the northern border of Damascus, with the territory of Hamath to the north. This will be the northern boundary.
Numbers 34:7
Your northern border will run from the Great Sea directly to Mount Hor,

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About this book

The Bronze Serpent — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Numbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
Date: The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC

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Ezekiel 47:17
So the border will run from the Sea to Hazar-enan, along the northern border of Damascus, with the territory of Hamath to the north. This will be the northern boundary.
leads to
- Ezekiel 48:1
  “Now these are the names of the tribes: At the northern frontier, Dan will have one portion bordering the road of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath and running on to Hazar-enan on the border of Damascus…

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