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34:1 Then the Lord <03068> spoke <01696> to <0413> Moses <04872>: 34:2 “Give <06680> these instructions <06680> to the Israelites <03478> <01121>, and tell <0559> them: ‘When <03588> you <0859> enter <0935> Canaan <03667>, the land <0776> that <0834> has been assigned <05307> to you as an inheritance <05159>, the land <0776> of Canaan <03667> with its borders <01367>, 34:3 your southern <05045> border <06285> will extend <01961> from the wilderness <04057> of Zin <06790> along <05921> the Edomite <0123> border <03027>, and your southern <05045> border <01366> will run <01961> eastward <06924> to the extremity <07097> of the Salt <04417> Sea <03220>, 34:4 and then the border <01366> will turn <05437> from the south <05045> to the Scorpion Ascent <04610>, continue <05674> to Zin <06790>, and then its direction <08444> will be <01961> from the south <05045> to Kadesh Barnea <06947>. Then it will go <03318> to Hazar Addar <02692> and pass over <05674> to Azmon <06111>. 34:5 There the border <01366> will turn <05437> from Azmon <06111> to the Brook <05158> of Egypt <04714>, and then its direction <08444> is to the sea <03220>. 34:6 “‘And for a western <03220> border <01366> you will have <01961> the Great <01419> Sea <03220>. This <02088> will be <01961> your western <03220> border <01366>. 34:7 “‘And this <02088> will be <01961> your northern <06828> border <01366>: From <04480> the Great <01419> Sea <03220> you will draw a line <08376> to Mount <02022> Hor <02023>; 34:8 from Mount <02022> Hor <02023> you will draw a line <08376> to Lebo Hamath <02574>, Hamath <0935>, and the direction <08444> of the border <01366> will be <01961> to Zedad <06657>. 34:9 The border <01366> will continue <03318> to Ziphron <02202>, and its direction <08444> will be <01961> to Hazar Enan <02704>. This <02088> will be <01961> your northern <06828> border <01366>. 34:10 “‘For your eastern <06924> border <01366> you will draw <0184> a line from Hazar Enan <02704> to Shepham <08221>. 34:11 The border <01366> will run down <03381> from Shepham <08221> to Riblah <07247>, on the east side <06924> of Ain <05871>, and the border <01366> will descend <03381> and reach <04229> the eastern <06924> side <03802> of the Sea <03220> of Chinnereth <03672>. 34:12 Then the border <01366> will continue down <03381> the Jordan River <03383> and its direction <08444> will be <01961> to the Salt <04417> Sea <03220>. This <02063> will be <01961> your land <0776> by its borders <01367> that surround <05439> it.’” 34:13 Then Moses <04872> commanded <06680> the Israelites <03478> <01121>: “This <02063> is the land <0776> which <0834> you will inherit <05157> by lot <01486>, which <0834> the Lord <03068> has commanded <06680> to be given <05414> to the nine <08672> and a half <02677> tribes <04294>, 34:14 because <03588> the tribe <04294> of the Reubenites <07206> <01121> by their families <01> <01004>, the tribe <04294> of the Gadites <01410> <01121> by their families <01> <01004>, and half <02677> of the tribe <04294> of Manasseh <04519> have received <03947> their inheritance <05159>. 34:15 The two <08147> and a half <02677> tribes <04294> have received <03947> their inheritance <05159> on this side <05676> of the Jordan <03383>, east <06924> of Jericho <03405>, toward the sunrise <04217>.” 34:16 The Lord <03068> said <01696> to <0413> Moses <04872>: 34:17 “These <0428> are the names <08034> of the men <0376> who <0834> are to allocate <05157> the land <0776> to you as an inheritance: Eleazar <0499> the priest <03548> and Joshua <03091> son <01121> of Nun <05126>. 34:18 You must take <03947> one <0259> leader <05387> <05387> from every <0259> tribe <04294> to assist in allocating <05157> the land <0776> as an inheritance <05157>. 34:19 These <0428> are the names <08034> of the men <0582>: from the tribe <04294> of Judah <03063>, Caleb <03612> son <01121> of Jephunneh <03312>; 34:20 from the tribe <04294> of the Simeonites <08095> <01121>, Shemuel <08050> son <01121> of Ammihud <05989>; 34:21 from the tribe <04294> of Benjamin <01144>, Elidad <0449> son <01121> of Kislon <03692>; 34:22 and from the tribe <04294> of the Danites <01835> <01121>, a leader <05387>, Bukki <01231> son <01121> of Jogli <03020>. 34:23 From the Josephites <03130> <01121>, Hanniel <02592> son <01121> of Ephod <0641>, a leader <05387> from the tribe <04294> of Manasseh <04519>;

• Num 34:1-5 -- The Southern Border of the Land
• Num 34:6 -- The Western Border of the Land
• Num 34:7-9 -- The Northern Border of the Land
• Num 34:10-15 -- The Eastern Border of the Land
• Num 34:16-29 -- Appointed Officials

• JOSHUA (2)

  [isbe] JOSHUA (2) - || I. FORM AND SIGNIFICANCE OF NAME II. HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF JOSHUA 1. First Appearance 2. The Minister of Moses 3. One of the Spies 4. The Head of the People (1) His First Act--Sending of the Spies (2) Crossi...
  

• Palestine

  [ebd] originally denoted only the sea-coast of the land of Canaan inhabited by the Philistines (Ex. 15:14; Isa. 14:29, 31; Joel 3:4), and in this sense exclusively the Hebrew name Pelesheth (rendered "Philistia" in Ps. 60:8; 83:7;...
  

• Canaanites

  [nave] CANAANITES Eleven nations, descended from Canaan, Gen. 10:15-19; Deut. 7:1; 1 Chr. 1:13-16. Territory of, Gen. 10:19; 12:6; 15:18; Ex. 23:31; Num. 13:29; 34:1-12; Josh. 1:4; 5:1; given to the Israelites, Gen. 12:6, 7; 15:18...
  

• Canaan

  [ebd] (1.) The fourth son of Ham (Gen. 10:6). His descendants were under a curse in consequence of the transgression of his father (9:22-27). His eldest son, Zidon, was the father of the Sidonians and Phoenicians. He had eleven so...
  [nave] CANAAN 1. Son of Ham, Gen. 9:18, 22, 25-27. Descendants of, Gen. 10:6, 15; 1 Chr. 1:8, 13. 2. Land of (The history of this region is involved in that of the Israelites. The student is therefore referred to Israel, History ...
  

• Shepham

  [ebd] a treeless place, Num. 34:10, 11: "The coast shall go down from Shepham to Riblah."
  [isbe] SHEPHAM - she'-fam (shepham; Sepphamar): A place, probably a hill town, on the ideal eastern boundary of Israel, named in Nu 34:10, but omitted in Ezek 47:15-18. It lay between Hazar-enan and Harbel (Massoretic Text: "Haribl...
  [smith] (fruitful), a place on the eastern boundary of the promised land. (Numbers 34:10,11)
  [nave] SHEPHAM, a place on the eastern boundary of the promised land, Num. 34:10, 11.
  

• Israel

  [nave] ISRAEL 1. A name given to Jacob, Gen. 32:24-32; 2 Kin. 17:34; Hos. 12:3, 4. 2. A name of the Christ in prophecy, Isa. 49:3. 3. A name given to the descendants of Jacob, a nation. Called also Israelites, and Hebrews, Gen. 4...
  

• Government

  [nave] GOVERNMENT Paternal functions of, Gen. 41:25-57. Civil service school provided by, Dan. 1:3-20. Maintains a system of public instruction, 2 Chr. 17:7-9. Executive departments in. See: Cabinet; King; Ruler; Statecraft. Ju...
  

• Hor

  [ebd] mountain. (1.) One of the mountains of the chain of Seir or Edom, on the confines of Idumea (Num. 20:22-29; 33:37). It was one of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness (33:37), which they reached in the circuitous...
  [smith] (mountain), Mount. The mountain on which Aaron died. (Numbers 20:25,27) It was "on the boundary line," (Numbers 20:23) or "at the edge," ch. (Numbers 33:37) of the land of Edom. It was the halting-place of the people next af...
  [nave] HOR, mountain on which Aaron died, Num. 20:22-29; 21:4; 33:38, 39; 34:7, 8; Deut. 32:50.
  

• Azmon

  [isbe] AZMON - az'-mon `atsmon; Asemona, "strong": On the Southwest border of Israel (Nu 34:4,5; Josh 15:4). Trumbull identifies it with `Ain el-Qaseimeh, Northwest of Kadesh Barnea (Kad. Baruch., 117, 289 f).
  [smith] (strong), a place named as being on the southern boundary of the Holy Land, apparently near the torrent of Egypt (Wadi el-Arish). (Numbers 34:4,5; Joshua 15:4) It has not yet been identified.
  [nave] AZMON, a place on the S. of Canaan, Num. 34:4, 5; Josh. 15:4.
  

• Riblah

  [ebd] fruitful, an ancient town on the northern frontier of Palestine, 35 miles north-east of Baalbec, and 10 or 12 south of Lake Homs, on the eastern bank of the Orontes, in a wide and fertile plain. Here Nebuchadnezzar had his h...
  [isbe] RIBLAH - rib'-la (ribhlah; Rheblatha, with variants): (1) Riblah in the land of Hamath first appears in history in 608 BC. Here Pharaoh-necoh, after defeating Josiah at Megiddo and destroying Kadytis or Kadesh on the Orontes...
  [smith] (fertility), One of the landmarks on the eastern boundary of the land of Israel, as specified by Moses. (Numbers 34:11) It seems hardly possible, without entirely disarranging the specification or the boundary, that the Ribla...
  [nave] RIBLAH A border town of the promised land, Num. 34:10-11. King Jehoahaz overthrown in, by Pharaoh, 2 Kin. 23:33. Headquarters of Nebuchadnezzar in siege of Jerusalem, 2 Kin. 25:6, 20, 21; Jer. 39:5, 6; 52:9, 26.
  

• RIVER OF EGYPT

  [ebd] (1.) Heb. nahar mitsraim, denotes in Gen. 15:18 the Nile, or its eastern branch (2 Chr. 9:26). (2.) In Num. 34:5 (R.V., "brook of Egypt") the Hebrew word is nahal, denoting a stream flowing rapidly in winter, or in the rainy...
  [smith] The Nile. (Genesis 15:18) [NILE] A desert stream on the border of Egypt, still occasionally flowing in the valley called Wadi-l-?Areesh . The centre of the valley is occupied by the bed of this torrent, which only flows afte...
  

• Mediterranean Sea

  [isbe] MEDITERRANEAN SEA - med-i-te-ra'-ne-an (he thalassa): To the Hebrews the Mediterranean was the sea, as was natural from their situation. Hence, they speak of it simply as "the sea" (ha-yam), e.g. Gen 49:13; Nu 13:29; 34:5; J...
  [nave] MEDITERRANEAN SEA Mentioned in scripture as the great sea, Num. 34:6, 7; Josh. 1:4; 9:1; 15:12, 47; 23:4; Ezek. 47:10, 15, 20; 48:28; Sea of the Philistines, Ex. 23:31; Sea of Joppa, Ezra 3:7; the hinder sea, Zech. 14:8; the...
  

• Zin

  [isbe] ZIN - zin (tsin; Sin): (1) A town in the extreme South of Judah, on the line separating that province from Edom, named between the ascent of Akrabbim and Kadesh-barnea (Nu 34:4; Josh 15:3). It must have lain somewhere betwee...
  [smith] (flat), the name given to a portion of the desert tract between the Dead Sea, Ghor , and Arabah on the east, and the general plateau of the Tih which stretches westward. The country in question consists of two or three succes...
  [nave] ZIN, a desert S. of Judah, Num. 13:21; 20:1; 27:14; 33:36; 34:3, 4; Deut. 32:51; Josh. 15:1, 3.
  

• Zedad

  [ebd] side; sloping place, a town in the north of Palestine, near Hamath (Num. 34:8; Ezek. 47:15). It has been identified with the ruins of Sudud, between Emesa (Hums) and Baalbec, but that is uncertain.
  [isbe] ZEDAD - ze'-dad (tsedhadhah, only found with He locale; Samaritan tseradhah; Septuagint Saradak, Sadadak, Saddak): A town or district named in Nu 34:8; Ezek 47:15 as on the ideal northern boundary of Israel. The uncertainty ...
  [smith] (mountain side), one of the landmarks on the north border of the land of Israel, as Promised by Moses, (Numbers 34:8) and as restored by Ezekiel. (Ezekiel 47:15) A place named Sudud exists to the east of the northern extremit...
  [nave] ZEDAD, a place near Hamath, Num. 34:8; Ezek. 47:15.
  

• Akrabbim

  [ebd] scorpions, probably the general name given to the ridge containing the pass between the south of the Dead Sea and Zin, es-Sufah, by which there is an ascent to the level of the land of Palestine. Scorpions are said to abound...
  [isbe] AKRABBIM - ak-rab'-im (once in the King James Version, Acrabbim (Josh 15:3); `aqrabbim, "scorpions"): Three times found (Nu 34:4; Josh 15:3; Jdg 1:36), and always with ma`aleh, "ascent" or "pass"; and so "Ascent of the Scorp...
  [smith] (the ascent of , or the going up to); also MAALEH-ACRABBIM (the scorpion pass), A pass between the south end of the Dead Sea and Zin, forming one of the landmarks on the south boundary at once of Judah, (Joshua 15:3) and of t...
  [nave] AKRABBIM, a chain of hills in the south of Palestine, Num. 34:4; Josh. 15:3; Judg. 1:36.
  

• GOING; GOINGS

  [isbe] GOING; GOINGS - go'-ing, go'-ingz: Besides, occasionally, forms of the common words for "go" (see Go), for "going" and "goings," the Hebrew has 'ashshur ('ashur, 'ashur), "step," motsa', totsa'oth, "goings out," "outgoings."...
  

• Shemuel

  [ebd] heard of God. (1.) The son of Ammihud. He represented Simeon in the division of the land (Num. 34:20). (2.) Used for "Samuel" (1 Chr. 6:33, R.V.). (3.) A prince of the tribe of Issachar (1 Chr. 7:2).
  [isbe] SHEMUEL - she-mu'-el, shem'-u-el (shemu'el, "name of God" (?) (1 Ch 6:33 (18)); the Revised Version (British and American) Samuel, the prophet (see SAMUEL); compare Gray, HPN, 200, note 3): (1) The Simeonite appointed to ass...
  [smith] (heard by God). A commissioner appointed from the tribe of Simeon to divide the land of Canaan. (Numbers 34:20) (B.C. 1450.) Samuel the prophet. (1 Chronicles 6:33) Son of Tola, and one of the chiefs of the tribe of Issac...
  [nave] SHEMUEL 1. A Simeonite appointed on the committee to divide the land of Canaan, Num. 34:20. 2. See: Samuel. 3. Head of a family in Issachar, 1 Chr. 7:2.
  

• Sea, The

  [ebd] (Heb. yam), signifies (1) "the gathering together of the waters," the ocean (Gen. 1:10); (2) a river, as the Nile (Isa. 19:5), the Euphrates (Isa. 21:1; Jer. 51:36); (3) the Red Sea (Ex. 14:16, 27; 15:4, etc.); (4) the Medit...
  

• Elidad

  [ebd] whom God has loved, son of Chislon, and chief of the tribe of Benjamin; one of those who were appointed to divide the Promised Land among the tribes (Num. 34:21).
  [isbe] ELIDAD - e-li'-dad ('elidhadh, "God has loved"): Prince of Benjamin in the division of the land (Nu 34:21); perhaps the same as ELDAD (which see).
  [smith] (whom God loves), the man chosen to represent the tribe of Benjamin in the division of the land of Canaan. (Numbers 34:21) (B.C. 1452.)
  [nave] ELIDAD, a prince of Benjamin, Num. 34:21.
  

• Ammihud

  [ebd] people of glory; i.e., "renowned." (1.) The father of the Ephraimite chief Elishama, at the time of the Exodus (Num. 1:10; 2:18; 7:48, 53). (2.) Num. 34:20. (3.) Num. 34:28. (4.) The father of Talmai, king of Geshur, to whom...
  [isbe] AMMIHUD - a-mi'-hud (`ammihudh, "my kinsman is glorious"; variously in the Septuagint, Emioud or Semioud or Amioud): The name of several Old Testament persons. (1) Father of Elishama, who in the wilderness was head of the tr...
  [smith] (people of praise). An Ephraimite father of Elishama, the chief of the tribe at the time of the Exodus. (Numbers 1:10; 2:18; 7:48,53; 10:22; 7:26) and, through him, ancestor of Joshua. (B.C. 1491.) A Simeonite, father of She...
  [nave] AMMIHUD 1. Son of Laadan, 1 Chr. 7:26, and father of Elishama, Num. 1:10; 2:18. 2. Father of Shemuel, Num. 34:20. 3. Father of Pedahel, Num. 34:28. 4. Father of the king of Geshur, 2 Sam. 13:37. 5. Son of Omri, 1 Chr. 9:...
  

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