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ਗਿਣਤੀ 34:4
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Akrabbim: Joshua 15:3, Judges 1:36
Zin: Numbers 34:3, Numbers 13:21, Numbers 20:1, Numbers 33:36, Numbers 33:37
Kadeshbarnea: Numbers 13:26, Numbers 32:8
Hazaraddar: Joshua 15:3, Joshua 15:4
Reciprocal: Joshua 10:41 - Kadeshbarnea
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And your border,.... That is, the south border, which is still describing:
shall turn from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim; or Maalehacrabbim, as in Joshua 15:3 so called from the multitude of serpents and scorpions in it, see Deuteronomy 8:15, so Kimchi says k, a place of serpents and scorpions was this ascent: Dr. Shaw l says Akrabbim may probably be the same with the mountains of Accaba, according to the present name, which hang over Eloth, where there is a "high steep road", well known to the Mahometan pilgrims for its ruggedness: and he thinks m it very probable, that Mount Hor was the same chain of mountains that are now called Accaba by the Arabs, and were the easternmost range, as we may take them to be, of Ptolemy's black mountains: Josephus n speaks of Acrabatene as belonging to the Edomites, which seems to be this same place:
and pass on to Zin; that is, which ascent goes on to it; the Targum of Jonathan is,
"and shall pass on to the palm trees of the mountain of iron;''
by which is meant the same with the wilderness of Zin: perhaps Zinnah is rather the name of a city; the Septuagint call it Ennac: the Vulgate Latin, Senna: Jerom o makes mention of a place called Senna, seven miles from Jericho:
and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadeshbarnea; from whence the spies were sent southward to search the land,
Numbers 13:17
and shall go on to Hazaraddar; called Adar, Joshua 15:3 and where it seems to be divided into two places, Hezron and Adar, which very probably were near each other, and therefore here put together, as if but one place:
and pass on to Azmon; which the Targums call Kesam.
k Sepher Shorash. "in voce" עקרב. l Travels, tom. 2. ch. 1. p. 279. m Travels, tom. 2. ch. 1. p. 323. n Antiqu. l. 12. c. 8. sect. 1. see 1 Maccab. 5. 3. o De loc. Heb. fol. 94. H.
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.)