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Numbers 34:12

in Numbers 34

Then the border will go down along the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. This will be your land, defined by its borders on all sides.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out thereof shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to the borders thereof round about.

KJV

And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.

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This verse in Numbers 34

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The border shall go down to Jordan - This river is famous both in the Old and New Testaments. It takes its rise at the foot of Mount Libanus, passes through the sea of Chinnereth or Tiberias, and empties itself into the lake Asphaltites or Dead Sea, from which it has no outlet. In and by it God wrought many miracles. God cut off the waters of this river as he did those of the Red Sea, so that they stood on a heap on each side, and the people passed over on dry ground.

This site's exposition

your eastern border will run straight

on Numbers 34:10-16

Verse 13 gives the land to "the nine and a half tribes", since Reuben, Gad and half of Manasseh took pasture across the Jordan. Joshua 22:24-25 records their fear that, with the Jordan a border, their children would hear "You have no share in the LORD".

This site's exposition

the border will go down along the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea

Adam Clarke traces the Jordan from the foot of Lebanon through the Sea of Chinnereth into the Dead Sea, which has no outlet. God cut its waters off for Israel at Joshua 3:16. Matthew Henry reads the Salt Sea on the border as a warning against the sins of Sodom.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This was part of their border, that it might be a constant warning to them to take heed of those sins which had been the ruin of Sodom; yet the iniquity of Sodom was afterwards found in Israel ( Ezek. xvi. 49 ), for which Canaan was made, though not a salt sea as Sodom, yet a barren soil, and continues so to this day.
And the border shall go down to Jordan,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

east border--This is very clearly defined. Shepham and Riblah, which were in the valley of Lebanon, are mentioned as the boundary line, which commenced a little higher than the sources of the Jordan.

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The words behind it

13 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וְיָרַ֤דand it will go down

    veyaradH3381 →381 times

  • הַגְּבוּל֙the border

    hagevulH1366 →240 times

  • הַיַּרְדֵּ֔נָהthe Jordan towards

    haiyardenahH3383 →182 times

  • וְהָי֥וּand they will be

    vehayuH1961 →3559 times

  • תוֹצְאֹתָ֖יוextremities its

    totzotavH8444 →23 times

  • יָ֣ם[the] Sea of

    yamH3220 →396 times

  • הַמֶּ֑לַח<the> Salt

    hamelachH4417 →27 times

  • זֹאת֩this

    zotH2063 →603 times

  • תִּהְיֶ֨הit will be

    tihyehH1961 →3559 times

  • לָכֶ֥םof you

    lakhem

  • הָאָ֛רֶץthe land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • לִגְבֻלֹתֶ֖יהָto borders its

    ligvuloteihaH1367 →10 times

  • סָבִֽיב׃all around

    savivH5439 →336 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

6 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Genesis 14:3The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).5 worksNumbers 34:3Your southern border will extend from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. On the east, your southern border will run from the end of the Salt Sea,4 worksJoshua 15:5The eastern border was the Salt Sea as far as the mouth of the Jordan.3 worksGenesis 13:10And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)2 worksGenesis 19:24–26Then the LORD rained down sulfur and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the LORD out of the heavens.2 works2 Chronicles 20:2Then some men came and told Jehoshaphat, “A vast army is coming against you from Edom, from beyond the Sea; they are already in Hazazon-tamar” (that is, En-gedi).1 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 14:3

    The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

    it leads to

    • Joshua 3:16

      the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Deuteronomy 3:17

      The Jordan River in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.

  • Through

    Genesis 13:10

    And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 34:3

      the Negev, and the region from the Valley of Jericho (the City of Palms) all the way to Zoar.

    • Isaiah 51:3

      For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness…

    • Genesis 14:8

      Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) marched out and arrayed themselves for battle in the…

    • Genesis 2:8–10

      And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.

    • Ezekiel 28:13

      You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in…

  • Through

    Numbers 34:3

    Your southern border will extend from the Wilderness of Zin along the border of Edom. On the east, your southern border will run from the end of the Salt Sea,

    it leads to

    • Genesis 14:3

      The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

Where this verse is studied

About Numbers

The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
The Brazen Serpent, Anthony van Dyck, 1618 to 1620. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 34 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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