And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.
The land of the Giblites. Their capital was Gebal or Byblos (Greek), on the Mediterranean, forty miles north of Sidon (1 Kings 5:18,32 , Hebrew text).
All Lebanon, toward the sun-rising - i:e., Antilibanus; the eastern ridge, which, running in a course nearly parallel to that of Lebanon, extends from Banias, and has its proper termination in Hermon.
From Baal-gad under mount Hermon. 'It would seem that Baal-gad and Baal-hermon were different names of the same place; that this place was in a valley under Hermon; and that it here served to mark the northernmost limit of Palestine to which the conquests of Joshua extended; just as at a later period, after the city of Dan had been built, that place is always put as the northern limit. The name Baal-gad (god of fortune) implies a place of pagan worship, being referred by Gesenius to Jupiter, by Movers to Venus; and the name of Baal-hermon was taken apparently from its connection with that mountain. All these considerations go to make it probable that Baal-gad was the romantic spot, the secluded grotto, at the fountain of Jordan where the Phoenicians or Syrians had established the worship of one of their Baals' (Robinson). Entering into Hamath - the valley of Baalbec. The tract of country described comprised all Lebanon, from the region of Dan and Banias to its northern extremity (Robinson's 'Later Biblical Researches,' pp. 409, 568).