Numbers 34:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Your east border This ran from the head of Jordan along the course of that river, taking in the lake of Gennesareth, called in the New Testament, the sea of Galilee, and the sea of Tiberias, (John 6:1,) and here, the sea of Chinnereth, or Cinnereth, from the Hebrew, cinnor, a harp, the figure of which it resembles. Shepham and Riblah were two places near Jordan. Ain signifies a fountain, and the passage may be rendered, On the east side of the fountain Namely, of Jordan, for that river had more sources than one.

Numbers 34:10

10 And ye shall point out your east border from Hazarenan to Shepham: