Numbers 34:3

Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward: The salt sea - The Dead Sea, or lake Asphaltites. See the note on Genesis 19:25.

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Albert 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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Numbers 34:1-15 (from P). The Boundaries of Israel's Possessions in Canaan. These, as here set forth, are ideal rather than actual, since the a...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

south quarter. Compare Joshua 15:1 . Begins at east corner. salt sea. So Numbers 34:12 .
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin— Though by the land of Canaan is sometimes understood the whole land of promise possess...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

One of the terms of the charge already considered, that the people should possess the land and that it should be divided equitably, was now enlarged...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I have not interrupted the Reader by dividing these verses, because I would have him first read over attentively the whole account of the extent of t...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The south quarter is here described from east to west by divers windings and turnings, by reason of the mountains, rivers, &c. By the coast of...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

3). Description of The Land To Be Inherited ( Numbers 34:1-15 ). Having commanded the purifying of the land by the driving out of its inhabitants...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES This chapter consists of two portions: (1) the boundaries of the Promised Land ( Numbers 34:1-15 ), and (2) the n...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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The Biblical Illustrator

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Boundaries of Canaan
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

then your south quarter, the general southern boundary, shall be from the Wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, in the southeastern corner,...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 23:31 ; Ezekiel 47:13 ; Ezekiel 47:18 ; Ezekiel 47:19-23 ; Ezekiel 47:8 ; Genesis 14:3 ; Joshua 15:1-12 ; Joshua 15:2 ; Joshua 3:16
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Your fourth quarter — Which is here described from east to west by divers windings and turnings, by reason of the mountains and rivers. The salt se...

³ Then your south quarter shall be from the wilderness of Zin along by the coast of Edom, and your south border shall be the outmost coast of the salt sea eastward:

Related Commentaries of Numbers 34:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Numbers 34:3