Numbers 34:12 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 34:12

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.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

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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Commentary

2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (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.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

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.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְיָרַ֤ד	ve.ya.Rad	and it will go down	H3381 →
הַגְּבוּל֙	ha.ge.Vul	the border	H1366 →
הַיַּרְדֵּ֔נָה	hai.yar.De.nah	the Jordan towards	H3383 →
וְהָי֥וּ	ve.ha.Yu	and they will be	H1961 →
תוֹצְאֹתָ֖יו	totz.'o.Tav	extremities its	H8444 →
יָ֣ם	yam	[the] Sea of	H3220 →
הַמֶּ֑לַח	ha.Me.lach	<the> Salt	H4417 →
זֹאת֩	zoT	this	H2063 →
תִּהְיֶ֨ה	tih.Yeh	it will be	H1961 →
לָכֶ֥ם	la.Khem	of you
הָאָ֛רֶץ	ha.'A.retz	the land	H776 →
לִגְבֻלֹתֶ֖יהָ	lig.vu.lo.Tei.ha	to borders its	H1367 →
סָבִֽיב׃	sa.Viv	all around	H5439 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Genesis 14:3
The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
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 independent 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…
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,
leads to
- Genesis 14:3
  The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Numbers

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Numbers