Joshua 1:4

1:4 Your territory will extend from the wilderness in the south to Lebanon in the north. It will extend all the way to the great River Euphrates in the east (including all of Syria) ¹  and all the way to the Mediterranean Sea ²  in the west. ³ 

Joshua 9:1

The Gibeonites Deceive Israel

9:1 When the news reached all the kings on the west side of the Jordan ⁴  – in the hill country, the lowlands, ⁵  and all along the Mediterranean coast ⁶  as far as ⁷  Lebanon (including the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites) –

Joshua 15:12

15:12 The western border was the Mediterranean Sea. ⁸  These were the borders of the tribe of Judah and its clans. ⁹ 

Joshua 15:47

15:47 Ashdod with its surrounding towns and settlements, and Gaza with its surrounding towns and settlements, as far as the Stream of Egypt ¹⁰  and the border at the Mediterranean Sea. ¹¹ 

Joshua 23:4

23:4 See, I have parceled out to your tribes these remaining nations, ¹²  from the Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea ¹³  in the west, including all the nations I defeated. ¹⁴ 

Ezekiel 47:10

47:10 Fishermen will stand beside it; from Engedi to En-eglaim they will spread nets. They will catch many kinds of fish, like the fish of the Great Sea. ¹⁵ 

Ezekiel 47:15

47:15 “This will be the border of the land: ¹⁶  On the north side, from the Great Sea by way of Hethlon to the entrance of Zedad;

Ezekiel 47:20

47:20 On the west side the Great Sea will be the boundary to a point opposite Lebo-hamath. This is the west side.

¹ tn Heb “all the land of the Hittites.” The expression “the land of the Hittites” does not refer to Anatolia (modern Turkey), where the ancient Hittite kingdom of the second millennium b.c. was located, but rather to Syria, the “Hatti land” mentioned in inscriptions of the first millennium b.c. (see HALOT 1:363). The phrase is omitted in the LXX and may be a scribal addition.

² tn Heb “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

³ tn Heb “From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, even to the great sea [at] the place where the sun sets, your territory will be.”

⁴ tn Heb “When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan heard.”

⁵ tn Or “foothills”; Heb “the Shephelah.”

⁶ tn Heb “all the coast of the Great Sea.” The “Great Sea” was the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

⁷ tn Heb “in front of.”

⁸ tn Heb “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

⁹ tn Heb “this was the border of the sons of Judah round about, by their clans.”

¹⁰ tn See the note on this place name in 15:4.

¹¹ tn Heb “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

¹² tn Heb “I have assigned by lots to you these remaining nations as an inheritance for your tribes.”

¹³ tn Heb “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

¹⁴ tn Heb “from the Jordan and all the nations which I cut off and the Great Sea [at] the place where the sun sets.” The relationship of the second half of the verse, which mentions nations already conquered, to the first half, which speaks of “remaining nations,” is difficult to understand.

¹⁵ sn The Great Sea refers to the Mediterranean Sea (also in vv. 15, 19, 20).

¹⁶ sn The measurements resemble those in Num 34:1-2.