民数记 34:3

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

你們南面的地區要從尋的曠野，貼著以東邊界；你們的南界要從鹽海東面的盡頭起；

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
南 角 要 从 寻 的 旷 野 ， 贴 着 以 东 的 边 界 ； 南 界 要 从 盐 海 东 头 起 ，

Contextual Overview

¹ The Lord said to Moses, ² "Give this command to the people of Israel: ‘You will soon enter Canaan and it will be yours. These shall be the borders: ³ On the south you will get part of the Desert of Zin near the border of Edom. On the east side your southern border will start at the south end of the Dead Sea, ⁴ cross south of Scorpion Pass, and go through the Desert of Zin and south of Kadesh Barnea. Then it will go to Hazar Addar and over to Azmon. ⁵ From Azmon it will go to the brook of Egypt, and it will end at the Mediterranean Sea. ⁶ "‘Your western border will be the Mediterranean Sea. ⁷ "‘Your northern border will begin at the Mediterranean Sea and go to Mount Hor. ⁸ From Mount Hor it will go to Lebo Hamath, and on to Zedad. ⁹ Then the border will go to Ziphron, and it will end at Hazar Enan. This will be your northern border. ¹⁰ "‘Your eastern border will begin at Hazar Enan and go to Shepham.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

south quarter: Exodus 23:31, Joshua 15:1-12, Ezekiel 47:13, Ezekiel 47:19-23

salt sea eastward: The lake Asphaltites, Dead sea, or Salt sea, is, according to the most authentic accounts, about 70 miles in length, and 18 in breadth. Viewing this sea from the spot where the Jordan discharges its waters into it, it takes a south-easterly direction, visible for ten or fifteen miles, when it disappears in a curve towards the east. Its surface is generally unruffled, from the hollow of the basin in which it lies scarcely admitting the free passage necessary for a strong breeze: it is, however, for the same reason, subject to whirlwinds or squalls of short duration. The mountains on each side are apparently separated by a distance of eight miles; but the expanse of water at this point has been supposed not to exceed five or six: as it advances towards the south, it evidently increases in breadth. The acrid saltness of its waters is much greater than that of the sea; and of such specific gravity that bodies will float on it that would sink in common sea-water. It is probably on this account that few fish can live in it; though the monks of St. Saba affirmed to Dr. Shaw, that they had seen fish caught in it. Genesis 14:3, Joshua 3:16, Joshua 15:2, Ezekiel 47:8, Ezekiel 47:18

Reciprocal: Genesis 15:18 - Unto thy Numbers 13:21 - from the wilderness of Zin Numbers 20:1 - Kadesh Numbers 34:4 - Zin Numbers 34:7 - north border Numbers 34:12 - the salt sea Deuteronomy 1:7 - the mount Deuteronomy 11:24 - General Deuteronomy 34:3 - Zoar Joshua 18:19 - the salt

Cross-References

Ruth 1:14
The women cried together out loud again. Then Orpah kissed her mother-in-law Naomi good-bye, but Ruth held on to her tightly.

1 Samuel 18:1
When David finished talking with Saul, Jonathan felt very close to David. He loved David as much as he loved himself.

2 Samuel 19:7
Now go out and encourage your servants. I swear by the Lord that if you don't go out, no man will be left with you by tonight! That will be worse than all the troubles you have had from your youth until today."

2 Chronicles 30:22
Hezekiah encouraged all the Levites who showed they understood well how to do their service for the Lord . The people ate the feast for seven days, offered fellowship offerings, and praised the Lord , the God of their ancestors.

Isaiah 40:2
Speak kindly to the people of Jerusalem and tell them that their time of service is finished, that they have paid for their sins, that the Lord has punished Jerusalem twice for every sin they did."

Hosea 2:14
"So I am going to attract her; I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then your south quarter,.... Or border of the land; which, as Jarchi observes, was from east to west:

shall be from the wilderness of Zin; which is Kadesh, where Miriam died, Numbers 20:1, and if this Kadesh was Kadeshbarnea, as Dr. Lightfoot seems to have proved h, from whence the spies were sent, that was clearly on the south of the land of Canaan, for they were bid to go up their way southward, Numbers 13:17, and so Kadeshbarnea is hereafter mentioned, as being in the southern border: the Targum of Jonathan paraphrases it,

"from the wilderness of the palm trees of the mountain of iron;''

there is a smaller palm tree, which by Jewish writers is called Zin, of which there were great quantities on a mountain famous for iron mines, in this wilderness, from whence it is thought it had its name; hence we read i of palm trees of the mountain of iron, as fit to make the bunch of branches of trees, called the "lulab", carried in the hand on the feast of tabernacles:

along by the coast of Edom; the land of Canaan, to the south, bordered on three countries, Egypt, Edom, and Moab; according to Jarchi, some part of Egypt, the whole land of Edom, and the whole land of Moab; the part of the land of Egypt was in the south west corner of it; the land of Edom by it to the east; and the land of Moab by the land of Edom, at the end of the south to the east:

and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward; the same that is sometimes called the Dead sea, the sea of Sodom, or the lake Asphaltites, as Heathen writers generally call it.

h Works, vol. 2. p. 8, 9. i Misn. Succah. c. 3. sect. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The southern boundary commenced at the Dead Sea. The broad and desolate valley by which the depressed bed of that sea is protected toward the south, is called the Ghor. A deep narrow glen enters it at its southwest corner; it is called Wady-el-Fikreh, and is continued in the same southwestern direction, under the name of Wady el-Marrah; a wady which loses itself among the hills belonging to “the wilderness of Zin;” and Kadesh-barnea (see Numbers 13:26 note), which is “in the wilderness of Zin,” will be, as the text implies, the southernmost point of the southern boundary. Thence, if Kadesh be identical with the present Ain el-Weibeh, westward to the river, or brook of Egypt, now Wady el-Arish, is a distance of about seventy miles. In this interval were Hazar-addar and Azmon; the former being perhaps the general name of a district of Hazerim, or nomad hamlets (see Deuteronomy 2:23), of which Adder was one: and Azmon, perhaps to be identified with Kesam, the modern Kasaimeh, a group of springs situate in the north of one of the gaps in the ridge, and a short distance west of Ain el-Kudeirat.

(Others consider the boundary line to have followed the Ghor along the Arabah to the south of the Azazimeh mountains, thence to Gadis round the southeast of that mountain, and thence to Wady el-Arish.)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Numbers 34:3. The salt sea — The Dead Sea, or lake Asphaltites. Genesis 19:25; Genesis 19:25.