And ye shall point out your east border from Hazar–enan to Shepham:
And ye shall mark out your east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham;
`And ye have marked out for yourselves for the border eastward, from Hazar-Enan to Shepham;
And ye shall mark out for you as eastern border from Hazar-enan to Shepham:
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.
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And ye shall point out your east border from Hazarenan to Shepham. From the place where the northern border ended, which Jerom says (u) the Hebrews call Apamia, as both the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem do here. Shepham was a city between Hazarenan and Riblah in the tribe of Naphtali, where Adrichomius (w) places it. (u) Comment. ut supra. (cf. ver. 15.) (w) Theatrum Terrae Sanct. p. 114.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
Shepham, the first point after Hazar-enan, is unknown. The name Riblah is by some read Har-bel, i. e., the Mountain of Bel; the Har-baal-Hermon of Jdg 3:3. No more striking landmark could be set forth than the summit of Hermon, the southernmost and by far the loftiest peak of the whole Antilibanus range, rising to a height of 10,000 feet, and overtopping every other mountain in the Holy land.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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The eastern border was the Salt Sea as far as the mouth of the Jordan.
