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Texts -- Numbers 34:9-29 (NET)

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34:9 The border will continue to Ziphron , and its direction will be to Hazar Enan . This will be your northern border .
The Eastern Border of the Land
34:10 “‘For your eastern border you will draw a line from Hazar Enan to Shepham . 34:11 The border will run down from Shepham to Riblah , on the east side of Ain , and the border will descend and reach the eastern side of the Sea of Chinnereth . 34:12 Then the border will continue down the Jordan River and its direction will be to the Salt Sea . This will be your land by its borders that surround it.’” 34:13 Then Moses commanded the Israelites : “This is the land which you will inherit by lot , which the Lord has commanded to be given to the nine and a half tribes , 34:14 because the tribe of the Reubenites by their families , the tribe of the Gadites by their families , and half of the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance . 34:15 The two and a half tribes have received their inheritance on this side of the Jordan , east of Jericho , toward the sunrise .”
Appointed Officials
34:16 The Lord said to Moses : 34:17 “These are the names of the men who are to allocate the land to you as an inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun . 34:18 You must take one leader from every tribe to assist in allocating the land as an inheritance . 34:19 These are the names of the men : from the tribe of Judah , Caleb son of Jephunneh ; 34:20 from the tribe of the Simeonites , Shemuel son of Ammihud ; 34:21 from the tribe of Benjamin , Elidad son of Kislon ; 34:22 and from the tribe of the Danites , a leader , Bukki son of Jogli . 34:23 From the Josephites , Hanniel son of Ephod , a leader from the tribe of Manasseh ; 34:24 from the tribe of the Ephraimites , a leader , Kemuel son of Shiphtan ; 34:25 from the tribe of the Zebulunites , a leader , Elizaphan son of Parnach ; 34:26 from the tribe of the Issacharites , a leader , Paltiel son of Azzan ; 34:27 from the tribe of the Asherites , a leader , Ahihud son of Shelomi ; 34:28 and from the tribe of the Naphtalites , a leader , Pedahel son of Ammihud .” 34:29 These are the ones whom the Lord commanded to divide up the inheritance among the Israelites in the land of Canaan .

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  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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;...

  • PALESTINE, 3

    [isbe] PALESTINE, 3 - IV. Palestine in the Poetic Books of the Old Testament. 1. Book of Job: In Job the scene is distinctively Edomite. Uz (Job 1:1; compare Gen 22:21 the English Revised Version; Jer 25:20; Lam 4:21) and Buz (Job ...

  • Lot

    [ebd] (Heb. goral, a "pebble"), a small stone used in casting lots (Num. 33:54; Jonah 1:7). The lot was always resorted to by the Hebrews with strictest reference to the interposition of God, and as a method of ascertaining the di...

  • Judah, Tribe of

    [ebd] Judah and his three surviving sons went down with Jacob into Egypt (Gen. 46:12; Ex. 1:2). At the time of the Exodus, when we meet with the family of Judah again, they have increased to the number of 74,000 males (Num. 1:26, ...

  • Jericho

    [ebd] place of fragrance, a fenced city in the midst of a vast grove of palm trees, in the plain of Jordan, over against the place where that river was crossed by the Israelites (Josh. 3:16). Its site was near the 'Ain es-Sultan, ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Hazar-enan

    [ebd] village of fountains, a place on the north-east frontier of Palestine (Num. 34:9, 10). Some have identified it with Ayan ed-Dara in the heart of the central chain of Anti-Libanus. More probably, however, it has been identifi...
    [nave] HAZAR-ENAN, the N.E. boundary point of the promised land, Num. 34:9, 10; Ezek. 47:17; 48:1.

  • HAZER

    [smith] topographically, seems generally employed for the villages of people. As a proper name it appears in the Authorized Version -- In the plural, HAZERIM and HAZEBOTH, for which see below. In the slightly different form of HAZOR...

  • HANNIEL

    [ebd] grace of God. (1.) A chief of the tribe of Manasseh (Num. 34:23). (2.) A chief of the tribe of Asher (1 Chr. 7:39).
    [isbe] HANNIEL - han'-i-el (channi'el "grace of God"): (1) The son of Ephod and a prince of Manasseh who assisted in dividing Canaan among the tribes (Nu 34:23). (2) A son of Ulla and a prince and hero of the tribe of Asher (1 Ch 7...

  • 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...

  • 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."...

  • GENEALOGY, 8 part 1

    [isbe] GENEALOGY, 8 part 1 - 8. Principal Genealogies and Lists: In the early genealogies the particular strata to which each has been assigned by reconstructive critics is here indicated by J, the Priestly Code (P), etc. The signs...

  • GALILEE, SEA OF

    [ebd] (Matt. 4:18; 15:29), is mentioned in the Bible under three other names. (1.) In the Old Testament it is called the "sea of Chinnereth" (Num. 34:11; Josh. 12:3; 13:27), as is supposed from its harp-like shape. (2). The "lake ...
    [isbe] GALILEE, SEA OF - (he thalassa tes Galilaias): 1. The Name: This is the name 5 times given in the New Testament (Mt 4:18; 15:29; Mk 1:16; 7:31; Jn 6:1) to the sheet of water which is elsewhere called "the sea of Tiberias" (J...
    [smith] So called from the province of Galilee, which bordered on the western side. (Matthew 4:18) It was also called the "Sea of Tiberias," from the celebrated city of that name. (John 6:1) At its northwestern angle was a beautiful ...

  • Chinnereth

    [ebd] lyre, the singular form of the word (Deut. 3:17; Josh. 19:35), which is also used in the plural form, Chinneroth, the name of a fenced city which stood near the shore of the lake of Galilee, a little to the south of Tiberias...

  • 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

    [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 ...

  • 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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